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Jordanian Arabs Start Boycott
Movement to Fight Ecumenical
Council's Declaration on Jews
UN Seeks Border Tranquility;
Syria Accused of Skirting Battle
As the United Nations Security Council debated the issue that was
ereated by the Syrian attacks on. Israel in the Lake Tiberias area, it
appeared certain that the resolution which \s ill be adopted will call on
both sides to intensify their cooperation %% ith the UN Truce Supervision
Organization for the restoration of tranquility in the border area. -
While the debate was progressing. the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
reported on Tuesday that Syrian positions again opened fire on an
Israeli patrol moving along a road in the same area where the attack
took place on Nov. 13. Occupants of the Israeli patrol car returned the
fire on Tuesday and continued the patrol. No casualties were reported.
Israel complained to the UN Mixed Armistice Commission. An official
communique indicated that the Syrians used heavy machine guns and
possibly recoilless guns in the new attack.
JTA also reported from Tel Aviv that Syrian gunners fired again
Wednesday at an Israeli patrol in the northernmost border near the
Dan River in an apparent effort to prevent Israeli use of the disputed
border road by attacking every patrol moving on it The same Weapons
as on 'Tuesday were again used Wednesday. The fire again was returned
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LONDON (JTA)—Nine heads of Roman Catholic churches in Jordan issued a
statement of regret over the campaign in that country against the Ecumenical Council
vote on the declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, it was reported from Amman.
One element of the campaign was a decision by the Jordanian government barring all
prelates who voted for the declaration from visiting the Christian holy places in Jordan.
In an article which appeared in all Jordanian newspapers Sunday, the Rev.
Agel of the Evangelical Episcopal Church in Amman, called on Jordanian Catholics
to boycott services held in churches belonging to various monasteries and to say
their prayers- at home in Arabic. He also urged them to cease cooperation with
those monasteries and ultimately with Rome "in order to force the Vatican to cancel
,its decision absolving Jews." •
Christian religious groups in. Jordan, meanwhile, have delegated Msgr. George
Bateh of the Jerusalem Latin Patriarchate to inform Pope Paul of the general reaction
to the Vatican declaration on Jews. A meeting of Jordanian Christian notables sent a
cable to the Pope asking that the declaration be dropped from the agenda of next year's –
session of the Ecumenical Council.
Msgr. Bateh disclosed that another cable was sent to the Orthodox = Patriarch
Athenagoras in Istanbul requesting his personal intervention to wipe out the de-
claration for the sake of church unity. ' It was also reported here from Beirut
that President Helou of Lebarion is expected to undertake a mission on behalf of Arab
governments and he may visit the Vatican. Helou is the only Christian Arab head •
Prof. Zeitlin Analyzes Gospels'5ources
in Correcting Errors in Crucifixion Libel
Third Installment From 'Who Crucified Jesus?'
Pt
By PROF. SOLOMON ZEITLIN
The Gospels are not primarily historical books. Their authors were not interest-
ed in the cold, historical facts. Not only were they not trained historians in our sense
of the word; but the whole technique of writing history in the Jewish tradition was that
of tendenz, or interpretative narration. Since the major concern of the Jewish mind
was with the meaning of events and personalities from the point of view of divine
intervention in human affairs, necessarily human history became the stage on which
-God played his role before the eyes of mankind.
Fortunately, there are four Gospels to aid the historian to ascertain - the histori-
city of certain events in the narrative of the crucifixion. The first three (Matthew.
Mark and Luke) are knovin as The Synoptic Gospels," as they are in agreement gen-
erally each with the other. The fourth Gospel (John), however, is known as the
"non-Synoptic Gospel" because it is in many instances, in disagreement with the first
three.
In so important a matter as the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, there is a wide
discrepancy between the Gospels. According to the first three, Jesus was cruci-
fied on the first day of Passover, but according to the non-Synoptic Gospel he was
crucified on the eve of Passover.
Undoubtedly, there is no real confusio of dates. There is difference of theological
accent on events. The authors of the Gos ls, in relating the historical events of the
crucifixion of Jesus, represented different theological conceptions of Jesus as the Christ
Messiah. The Synoptic Gospels, on the one hand, conceived of JesuS as the Saviour,
personifying the idea of salvation in the Passover festival. They emphasized the fact that
he suffered death for the sins of the people, hence fulfilling, in his death and resurrection,
the words of the prophets of Israel. On the other hand,
the fourth Gospel presented the theological view of
The four versions of Jesus'
as the Redeemer, personifying the Pasobal Lamb.
Jesus
life, as depicted in the Four
Just
as
the Paschal Lamb was sacrificed on the eve of
Gospels of the New Testament,
Passover, so they conceived Jesus the Messiah to have
are analyzed by Prof. Solomon
been crucified on the eve of Passover to redeem the
Zeitlin in this section of his
world from Original Sin.
book 'Who Crucified Jesus?" He
points out the discrepancies in
The authors of the Gospels wrote for Jewish
the different versions and sug.
Christians and Gentile Christians. The early followers
gests reasons for such differ-
of Jesus were Jews who established a church in Jeru-.
ences. This condensation, by
salem; these adherents of the new faith have come
Ruth L. Cassel, is published
to be known as Jewish Christians. Later, many Gentiles
through the courtesy of Prof.
accepted the teachings of Jesus, and these are named
Zeitlin and Bloch Publishing Co.
Gentile Christians.
(Copyright. 1964, by Bloch
Pub/ishing Co.)
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Lord Russell TV anis of Return
of Nazis to P olitiCal Life for
Lack of Prosecution in Germany
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LONDAN -- Lord Bertrand Russell. the British philoso-
pher, warmed Tuesday that the likely return to political life
or many Nazi war criminals for lack of prosecution in West
Germany would be "in violation of the London agreement of
August 1945 which is international law." •
Lord Russell made his statement in comment on an asser-
tion by Robert Kempner, a former American prosecutor at the
Nuremberg trial's, that there were 10,000 former Nazi war
criminals living under assumed names. Many of them would
probably escape prosecution because the West German govern-
ment has decided to adhere - ,to the current statute of limita-
tions for prosecutions of Nazi war crimes which expire in May.
Lord Russell, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, also said
he was "disturbed" at the revival of neo-Nazi groups in Ger-
many reported recently ;in Brussels by the international
union of resistance fighters. He asserted that "It seems ironic
that the West German authorities permit former SS and Gesta-
po societies to hold rallies of the Waffen SS while meetings of
victims of Nazi persecution are banned under the constitution.
Members of this committee were even prevented from laying
wreaths on the graves of Nazi victims."
He said the 1945 London agreement should be supported
by the British government and he urged West German auth-
orities "to reconsider their decision to waive the time limit
on war crimes by Nazis."
(Nazi criminals who have so far evaded justice will be able to come
out of hiding at the moment when the world is memorializing the 20th
anniversary of the liberation of Hitler's death, camps next spring. This
"tragic incongruity" has been emphasized by the American section of
the World. Jewish Congress in a statement urging the Bonn government --
to extend the statute of limitations with regard to the prosecution of
war crimes.
(The statement. issued in the name of 13 national organizations with
a total membership of more than 300,000. points to the "tragic incon-
gruity that as millions will memorialize the 20th anniversary of the
liberation of the Nazi death camps in the spring of 1965, simultaneously
those Nazi criminals who have so far evaded their just punishment,
will be able to appear in public, scornful of the survivors and of a world.
still bearing the scars inflicted by Hitlerism.")
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