Rabbis Absent From Wedding in Amsterdam AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Leading rabbis, invited to attend the wed- ding ceremony of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands to Claus von Amsberg, a German commoner who was a member of the Hitler Youth in Germany and served with the German Army in World War II, refused the invitation and were absent from the ceremony March 10. The Jewish community refrain- ed from protesting the wedding which was widely and sharply criticized in the Netherlands. Some 250,000 Dutchmen, includ- ing 165,000 Jews, were killed by the Nazis, many of them in Nazi extermination camps. Demonstra- tors opposed to the German con- sort clashed with police. The first demonstration took place at a me- morial to Dutch victims of Nazism in the Jewish district of Amster- dam where more than 1,000 stu- dents assembled. Amsterdam police were refused permission to use the Anne Frank House as a canteen in connection with their duties for the wedding. The request to use the Anne Frank House was rejected on grounds that a memorial to a Jewish girl who was murdered with other mem- bers of the family by the Nazis should not be used as a police post, whatever the occasion. Rabbi Olan Next Temple Lecturer Dr. Levi A. Olan will be the third speaker at Temple Beth El's Theodore and Mina Bargman Me- morial Scholar Series on Monday, 8:30 p.m., in the Brown Chapel of the Temple. He will speak on "Current Trends in Jewish The- ology." Vice-president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbi Olan is the spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Tex. Ordained at Hebrew Union College, recipient of an honorary doctor of divinity degree from this alma mater. he is a member of the faculty of Perkins School of The- ology, the Southern Methodist Uni- versity in Dallas and a member of the board of regents of the Uni- versity of Texas. He is the au- thor of a number of monographs. The lecture is open to the pub- lic, free of charge. The giver makes the gift pre- cious. —Amer. proverb. U.S. Prisoner in Syria Denied Right to Contact Embassy, Passport Taken (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) NEW YORK—Edward J. Levy, the 25-year-old American who re- turned here Tuesday night after two years in a Syrian prison, charged that the Syrian authorities confiscated his U.S. passport, did not permit him to contact the American embassy and kept him in solitary confinement for most of the time. Levy, who strolled across the Israel-Syrian border in June 1964, intending to hitchhike to Turkey, was exchanged by the Syrians last week for a Syrian prisoner held An original art rendering by the Israeli-French artist Nissan Engel by Israel. depicts the Marranos observing Passover in secret during the Spanish Levy said that the Syrians, who Inquisition. This also serves as a reminder of the oppression of 3,000,000 accused him of spying for Israel, Soviet Jews during the coming Passover season. Fourth 'Matzo of Oppression' to Mark. Plight of Soviet Jewry at Pesach Seder A call to all American Jews to' "they have not been forgotten" and include an additional statement on that American Jewry "shall be the plight of Soviet Jews in the I their voice" in arousing the con- seder service this year has been science of the world to "the injus- made by the American Jewish Con- tice imposed on Soviet Jews." Am- erican Jewry is also urged to add ference on Soviet Jewry. Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of an extra "matzo of oppression" to the conference and president of the the seder service as a symbol of Rabbinical Council of America, an- remembrance in behalf of Russian nounced that the statement informs Jewry, the majority of whom will the Soviet's 3,000,000 Jews that be denied matzo at their 1966 Pass- over observance. The service this year will be read on Monday and Tuesday evenings, April 4 and 5. Following the conclusion of the eight-day Passover observance, the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry is holding a two- day national leadership confer- ence in Philadelphia April 17-18, at which leading American public figures of all faiths will meet to protest the continued injustices and discriminations imposed up- on Soviet Jewry. The Conference suggests that after the blessing over the matzo, the reader of the Haggadah "lift a matzo, set it aside, and say: "We set aside this lechem this matzoh of oppression—to re- member the 3,000,000 Jews of the Soviet Union. Most of them can- not have matzo on their seder tables tonight. Conceive of Pass- over without matzo—without that visible reminder of our flight from A hand of oppression and hope slavery. "Think of Soviet Jews! They depicts the fourth matzo stressed by the American Jewish Confer- cannot learn of their Jewish past ence on Soviet Jewry to dramatize and hand it down to their chil- the plight of 3,000,000 Jews in the dren. They cannot learn the langu- Soviet Union during the coming ages of their fathers and hand Passover seder. The art is by the them down to their children. They Israeli-French artist, Nissan Engel. cannot teach their children to be their teachers, their rabbis. "They can only sit in silence and become invisible. We shall be their voice, and our voices shall be joined by thousands of men of conscience aroused by the The final lecture of the Adas injustice imposed on Soviet Jews. Shalom Adult Study Institute will Then shall they know that they be held 8:45 p.m. Tuesday in the have not been forgotten, and they synagogue social hall. Speaker that sit in darkness shall yet see will be Judge Wade H. McCree Jr., a great light." who will speak on "Is Civil Dis- A million copies of the "Matzo obedience Ever Justified?" of Oppression" statement have Judge McCree, admitted to the been printed by the American Jew- Michigan B a r in 1948, became ish Conference on Soviet Jewry and commissioner of Michigan's Work- are being distributed by the con- men's Compensation Commission ference (55 West 42nd St., New in 1952, later served as circuit York City) through the 24 national judge for Wayne County and from Jewish organizations that comprise 1961 has been U.S. judge for the it and by the 78 local Jewish com- munity councils in major American Eastern District of Michigan. cities that are affiliated with the He has served in high capaci- National Community Relations Ad- ties in many civic organizations, visory Council. is a vice president of the United Judge McCree New! 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Passover Plans for Israel Blind Several hundred blind children, many of them orphans, will spend Passover as guests of Israel fam- ilies. Many of the children live and are educated in the Jewish Institute for the Blind in Jeru- salem, Israel's only educational center for the sightless. Details of the Passover program were reported by Jacob Igra, the director-general of the institute, to Keren-Or, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, the support wing of the center in the United States. TEL AVIV (ZINS)—"Bank Is- rael" will shortly issue new paper currency, well informed sources reported here. The new bank notes will carry the likenesses of Herzl, Weizmann, Einstein and Bialik. The first new bank note will be in The wit one wants spoils what the amount of 100 pOunds. one has. — French proverb. MANISCHEWIT1 CLEAfbkliiiSOUP NO ONLY Purim Gifts for Tourists TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The 5,000 tourists who spent Purim in Israel were treated to a pleasant sur- prise when special messengers War. He was named Boston Latin came to their hotels and brought School Man of the Year in 1961. "mishloah manot" (Purim gifts) He received the Michigan Citizen- with the compliments of the min- ship Award, doctor of laws degree istry of tourism. The gift packages from Wayne State University and contained a Megillah, a bottle of only last week, the Amity Award Carmel wine and Israeli fruit. He served as captain in the U.S. Army during the Second World Richer chicken flavor... ideal for basting, gravy and cooking too...because it's made from only the plumpest kosher chickens. from the American Jewish Con- gress, Detroit Chapter, in recogni- A pack of cards is the devil's tion of his life-long involvement prayer book. —Amer. proverb. in the cause of civil rights. The community is invited to the lec- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ture, followed by refreshments. Friday, March 18, 1966-19 AT ALL GROCERS AND SUPERMARKETS