How Pope Rejected Jewish Demand
for Rejection of Proselytization;
Differences on Deicide Told in Look
Federation Education Group to Start Study
of Detroit's Jewish Schools' Needs on Sunday
A comprehensive study of Jew-
Before the Vatican Council voted the Jewish people by God as errors ish education in this community,
including an appraisal of current
Semitism and the Jews, a Vati-
programs and existing policy, and
Cardinal
Bea's
answer,
according
1 \---- nn cardinal and Pope Paul VI
to Look, was "oblique." He cau- projections for future needs, will
_22 secretly with Jewish leaders tioned his listeners that an un- be launched Sunday, when the
Ito discuss the hotly-debated is- wieldy assemblage of bishops could education division of the Jewish
Ues. it is disclosed in an article not possibly get down to details, Welfare Federation of Detroit
the current issue of Look could only set guidelines and hope meets with representatives of local
Magazine.
not to make the complex seem schools. Discussion will include
a review of a basic questionnaire
On March 31, 1963, more than simple.
two years before the Council voted
"Actually," Cardinal Bea re- which will be a major study in-
the declaration, the Vatican's portedly added, "it is wrong to strument.
Cardinal Augustin Bea met secretly seek the chief cause of anti-
Mandell L. Berman, chairman,
in New York with Jewish leaders Semitism in purely religious reports that the study was under-
for "unofficial" talks, the article sources — in the Gospel ac- taken on the basis of recommen-
reports.
counts, for example. These reli- dations by the Federation board
Cardinal Bea, head of the Vati- gious causes, insofar as they are of governors.
ean's powerful Secretariat for adduced • (often they are not),
Interest in the study is in keep-
Christian Unity, discussed the con- are often merely an excuse and ing with the national trend of
troversial issue with Rabbi Abra- veil to cover over other more re-evaluating education in general,
and Jewish education in parti-
ham Heschel of the Jewish Theo- operative reasons for enmity."
On June 12, 1964, the New cular.
logical Seminary, at the American
Jewish Committee offices in Man- York Times reported that a pas-
In the Detroit community, where
sage absolving the Jews of dei-
hattan.
cide had been cut from the latest more than half a million dollars
The gathering was kept sec- draft of the declaration, a fact yearly is budgeted from Allied
ret from the press, the article which disturbed Rabbi Heschel. Jewish Campaign funds to support
saki, because "Bea wanted nei-
Through the offices of Richard Jewish education programs,
ther the Holy See nor the Cardinal Cushing of Boston, a Federation is vitally concerned
Arab League to know he was private audience was subsequently with program effectiveness.
there to take up questions the arranged between Pope Paul VI
The proposed study will seek in-
Jews wanted to hear answered." and Rabbi Heschel.
formation on the effectiveness of
The Vatican prelate reportedly
Said the magazine of that meet- the current Jewish education pro-
told Heschel and other rabbis ing:
grams in community - financed
that he was "not authorized to
"With the AJC's (Zachariah) schools; gaps in existing programs
speak officially," but could, he Shuster beside him, Heschel talk- and suggested programs to fill
said, speak only of what in his ed hard about deicide and guilt them; facilities, personnel and
opinion "could be effected.... and asked the pontiff to press finances necessary to provide Jew-
should be effected by the council." for a declaration in which Cath- ish educational opportunities for
Rabbi Heschel and others in the olics would be forbidden to pro- the community in line with aims
for Jewish education as defined
room are said to have asked Bea selytize Jews.
if the Council's declaration would
"Paul, somewhat affronted, by the study.
Based on defined objectives
Specify deicide (the killing of would in no way agree. Shuster,
as determined through the
somewhat chagrined, disassoc-
Christ), the curse and rejection of
study, and an evaluation of
iated himself gingerly from
other accumulated study data,
Heschel by switching to French,
the education division will de-
which the Pope speaks but the
its historic declaration on anti- in Christian teaching.
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rabbi does not.
"All agree that the audience
did not end as cordially as it
began. Only Heschel and a few
others think it did good.
"The rabbi's audience with Paul
in the Vatican, like Bea's meet-
ing with the AJC in New York,
was granted on the condition that
it would be kept secret. It was un-
dercover summit conferences of
that sort that led (Catholic) con-
servatives to claim that American
Jews were the new power be-
hind the Church."
Egypt Able to Fire Rockets
Toward Israel From Sinai
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Egypt has
established missile launching bas-
es in the Sinai Desert from which
the Egyptian government could
fire toward Israel its El Kaher and
El Zafer rockets, developed by
West German scientists and aided
toward perfection by at least two
Americans, the Lebanese press in
Beirut reported.
The Beirut newspaper, El Hayat,
also reported that an American
spokesman had explained that
United States shipments of arms
to the Arab states resulted from
Israel's refusal to accept Washing-
ton advice against Israeli retali-
ations to counter Arab border
raids. The spokesman was quoted
as giving the following three rea-
sons for the American arms ship-
ments to the Arab state: 1. United
States desire to achieve a balance
between Israeli and Arab arma-
ments; 2. an effort to balance So-
viet arms shipments and arma-
ments shipped from the West; 3.
an attempt to use American ship-
ments in an effort to push Soviet
influence out of the Middle East.
(Israel will maintain a strong
deterrent military force regardless
of cost as the best means for main-
taining peace in view of the grow-
ing arms race in the Middle East,
Israel Ambassabor Avraham Har-
man declared Sunday night in
Miami. Addressing the 18th annual
scholarship dinner of the Greater
Miami Hebrew Academy, Ambassa-
dor Harman said that the found-
ing of the State of Israel 18 years
ago was an indication of the "over-
riding Jewish will to live following
the Nazi period")
velop recommendations for a
community-wide plan for Jew-
ish education.
In addition, the current policy
for financing communal Jewish
education will be assessed, and
necessary changes and adjust-
ments will be recommended.
The education division will as-
sume major responsibility for the
development of the study, subject
to review and approval by the
Federation Board.
Subcommittees to carry on the
work of gathering and evaluating
initial information have already
been formed. Dr. Albert Schiff
is chairman and Mrs. Arthur
Gould co-chairman of the subcom-
mittee on communal schools,
whose area of inquiry will include
the United Hebrew Schools, Mid-
rasha, Beth Yehudah Afternoon
School and Combined Jewish
Schools.
Sidney Shevitz is chairman and
Mrs. Carl Schiller co-chairman
of the subcommittee on afternoon
schools not receiving communal
support, including the H a y i m
Greenberg Hebrew-Yiddish School
and congregational schools.
T h e subcommittee on day
schools will be headed by Louis
LaMed, chairman, and Frank
Rosenbaum, co-chairman. Dr. Nor-
man Drachler, associate chairman
of the education division, will be
Berman's co-chairman in the con-
duct of the study. Milton Weiner,
secretary of the education division,
is study coordinator.
While the study will depend
primarily on local professional and
lay leadership, the plan calls for
consultation with national authori-
ties in the field of Jewish educa-
tion as the committee finds this
necessary.
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