Massachusetts Court • Rules Religious Neo-Nazi Papers Are Linked to German Anti-Semitism
German authorities had not taken
BONN (JTA)—Dr. John Slawson, was headed for Athens next.
Dispute Out of Its Jurisdiction
executive vice president of the
In Berne, concern over the any action to ban it. It was also
BOSTON (JTA)—The Massachu-
setts Supreme Court dismissed a
bill of complaint filed by the
United Kosher Butchers Associa-
tion against the Associated Syna-
gogues of Massachusetts. The suit
charged restraint of trade, elmina-
tion of a free market and denial of
free competition. The high court
ruling, holding that civil courts
have no jurisdiction in purely reli-
Rep. Farbstein Demands
U.S. Insist on Adequate
`Kidnaping' Explanation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep.
Leonard Farbstein, New York
Democrat, asked Secretary of
State Dean Rusk Tuesday to
continue to pursue the case of
Edward J. Levy with the Syrian
government until Syria provides a
satisfactory explanation for the
maltreatment of the American
citizen who had been held incom-
municado for almost two years.
Rep. Farbstein, a member of
the House Foreign Affairs Corn-
mittee, stressed that "during the
worst days of the cold war, the
countries behind the Iron Curtain
never treated Americans with such
disdain." He told Rusk, in a let-
ter, that Levy should, "as an ab-
solute minimum, be granted ade-
quate restitution by the Syrian
government.
`Unless Syria provides an ade-
quate explanation for its act,"
Rep. Farbstein stated, "I feel
it is essential that the American
government take full and appro-
priate retaliatory action. Only
such action will remind such
countries that they cannot be-
have in such irresponsible fash-
ion in their relations with the
United States."
Levy, a resident of New York,
is back home now. Syria had
handed him over recently to Is-
raeli authorities in a prisoner ex-
change between the two countries.
He had been imprisoned by the
Syrians after accidentally wander-
ing into Syrian territory from an
Israeli kibbutz, and neither Israel
nor the United States knew his
whereabouts until the prisoner ex-
change.
gious disputes, upheld a similar
ruing by a lower court.
At issue is a program of the As-
sociated Synagogues, comprised of
60 Orthodox, Conservative and Re-
form congregations in the area, to
centralize supervision of applica-
tion of the Jewish dietary laws to
commercial processing of foods
and related products, used by ob-
servant Jewish consumers.
The complaint of the Butchers
Association, made up of kosher re-
tail meat stores in Boston, said
that the butchers had certified
and supervised its member stores
on kosher meat and poultry with
those activities conducted for the
past seven years under direction
of Rabbi Mordecai Savitsky. The
complaint charged that the Asso-
ciated Synagogues had insisted
since 1960 that kosher caterers buy
meat only from retail stores super-
vised by the Association of Ortho-
dox Rabbis (Vaad Harabonim) of
the Associated Synagogues. The
complaint asked that the Asso-
ciated Synagogues be enjoined
from the practice and also sought
unspecified damages.
In its reply, the Associated Sy-
nagogues said kashruth certifica-
tion has always been the respon-
sibility of the organized Jewish
community, and that Jewish reli-
gious law requires the divorcing,
as far as possible, of the business
aspect from the religious phase of
kosher production.
`God' Left Out of Prayer,
Parents Still Opposed
CHICAGO — A kindergarten
mealtime prayer that was changed
to omit the word God has failed to
win the approval of a suburban
couple, who have filed suit in fed-
eral court to prevent • its recita-
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle A. DeSpain,
although not atheists, according to
their attorney, "do not believe in
the existence of a divine being who
hears or responds to prayers or
supplications of any kind."
The school board altered the
prayer after talks with the De-
Spains, but continued to require
students to recite the prayer.
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American Jewish Committee, said
that Jewish communal leaders in
West Germany had told him that
anti-Semitic banner headlines in
neo-Nazi newspapers were "defi-
nitely" one of the reasons for the
rise of violent anti-Semitic inci-
dents in the Federal Republic. He
cited the National und Soldaten-
zeitung by name as one such pa-
per.
He said he had urged West Ger-
man officials during his current
visit to develop and present a posi-
tive program to the public, to com-
bat the growth of neo-Nazi and
anti-Semitic incidents. Such a step
he stated, would not only be the
best way to allay "growing con-
cern" inside Germany and abroad,
but would also be the best possible
demonstration that the West Ger-
man government will not tolerate
a resurgence of the Nazi ideology
that brought "untold tragedy" to
the world and to Germany.
He expressed particular concern
over the growing support in recent
elections to the new neo-Nazi
group, the National Democratic
Party.
Dr. Karl Overbeck, of the West
German Foreign Office cultural
department, told Dr. Slawson Mon-
day that the government would try
to broaden a program aimed at
strengthening West German demo-
cratic institutions through adapta-
tion of methods used in the United
States.
Dr. Slawson was received in
Vienna Wednesday by Franzis-
cus Cardinal, Roman Catholic
archbishop of Vienna. Dr. Slaw-
son expressed the American
Jewish Committee's thanks to
the Catholic prelate for the Tat-
ter's efforts in the recent Vati-
can Ecumenical Council on be-
half of the final passage of a
decree which repudiated the
charge of collective guilt of the
Jewish people for the death of
Jesus.
During his two-day stay, Dr.
Slawson also scheduled confer-
ences with leaders of Austria's
major political parties as well as
with leaders of the Austrian Jew-
ish community.
At Frankfurt, Tuesday Dr. Slaw-
son unveiled a bust of Prof. Max
Horkheimer, a Jewish social sci-
entist at the city and University
Library in Frankfurt. Participants
in those ceremonies, in addition to
Dr. Horkheimer, included the pres-
ident and prime minister of the
German state of Hesse and the
Mayor of Frankfurt. Dr. Slawson
"increasing growth" of neo-Nazi noted that an anti-Semitic article
movements in West Germany had recently appeared in a pro-
and Austria was voiced by the vincial Swiss Catholic newspaper.
central committee of the Federa-
tion of Swiss Jewish Communi-
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The committee cited particular-
ly the anti-Semitic headlines of the
extremist West German newspa-
per, Deutsche National und Sold-
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Israeli Surgeons Save
Jordanian Infiltrator
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Mahmoud Hijazi, the
infiltrator who was sentenced to
death by an Israeli Military Tribu-
nal but won a new trial on Appeal,
was rushed to the hospital Tuesday
for emeergency surgery for a per-
forated ulcer.
A team of surgeons worked
throughout the night, and he was
reported off the danger list
Wednesday.
He will not be able to appear
before a military tribunal Thurs-
day for a verdict in the retrial,
and the announcement of the ver-
dict was postponed for two weeks.
Hijazi, a Jordanian, was cap-
tured in January 1965 in a clash
with an Israeli patrol which inter-
cepted an El Fatah group seeking
to sabotage a water tank at a
Lachish settlement.
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