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. Passover Greetings , to Our Many Friends and Customers its 11 All/111 Cartait4/ , S 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- WHEN YOU Ric A COCKTAIL ties, at its meeting here. The committee cited particular- ly the anti-Semitic headlines of the extremist West German newspa- per, Deutsche National und Sold- UNITED BRANDS -•.DETROiT; U.S.. A. • 42 PROOF atenzeitung, and asserted that West ROSE KRAUSE Wishes Her Many Friends and Clients A Happy Passover R. G. KRAUSE AGENCY Life and General Insurance 1766 Penobscot Bldg. WO 5-3134 Mother's® AT PASSOVER TASTES LIKE PASSOVER AT MOTHER'S REMEMBER? 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