Conversion of Jews "CRUX" of
Recent Ecumenical Council

LONDON (JTA) — One of Brit-
ain's outstanding lay Catholics,
who is a leader in efforts to im-
prove relations between Jews and
Christians, declared at Cambridge
University that the "crux" of the
recent Ecumenical Council decla-
ration regarding Jews was the aim
of converting Jews to Catholicism.
However, he insisted, "the notion
that there was a campaign on to
convert Jews is quite fantastic."
The statement was made by
Christopher Hollis, a well-known
British lookiit.er, who is head of the
Catholic Church Council in this
country, charged with implement-
ing a new approach toward friend-
ship between Catholics and Jews
in Britain.
Hollis was a speaker at the
International Conference on
Christian-Jewish Relations, con-
vened at Newnham College, at
Cambridge. Ninety scholars and
religious leaders of various faiths
from a number of European
countries, as well as from the
United States, are attending.
The chairman of the conclave is
Sir Seymour Edward Karminski,
judge of Britain's High Court of
Justice.
Among Americans attending the
conference are Rabbi Marc H.
Tannebaum, director of inter-
religious affairs for the American
Jewish Committee; Dr. Jacob B.
Agus, rabbi of Cong. Beth El,
Baltimore; the Rev. Dr. Robert
Dodds, director of ecumenical
affairs of the National Council of
Churches of Christ in the United
States; and the Rev. Edward
Flannery, a Jesuit priest who is
a member of the United States
Bishops Subcommission on Catho-
lic-Jewish Relations.
"We," Hollis said, speaking
of the Catholics, "hope for con-
versions. We frankly admit we
pray for conversions. But our
prime business is not with con-
versions, but with edification of
Catholics. Conversion is some-
thing that must be left for God
to look after."
A number of Jewish participants
in the conference objected to
Hollis' formulations regarding con-
version. The Rev. Dr. I. Levy,
attending the conference as a

representative of the World Jewish
Congress, led the counter-attack.
He said: "The mere use of that
word 'conversion' has been a warn-
ing light for Jews. It has under-
mined the undoubtedly good inten-
tions of the Vatican Council.
Justice Karminski told the con-
ference, as chairman, that neo-

ORT—Russian

Contraction:
Term's Origin

ORT now is referred to as the
Organization for Rehabilitation
Through Training.
The origin of the name for one
of the great Jewish movements
that assists in providing vocational
training for youths in backward
coutries and in developing lands is:
Its name, a Russian contraction
was: Obtschestwo Rasprostranenija
Truda—meaning Organization for
development of Handicrafts, Indus-
try and Agriculture Among Jews.
It was organized in Russia in
1880. After World War I, head-
quarters were moved to Berlin.
Now its activities are global and
it assists youths in Israel, in Latin
America, African, East European
and Moslem countries.

Nazism remains a great threat
to Christian-Jewish relations. "A
cause of neo-Nazism," he declared,
"comes from non-thinkers and
psychopaths. We must try to reach
those dull and unhappy people who
are the most vulnerable to anti-
Semitism.
"The young Germans," con-
tinued the high court judge,
"realize what the Nazis did, and
they are showing a tremendous
determination that it must never
happen again. We must remem-
ber that most of the students
were not yet born by 1945, so
they could not have known about
the atrocities.
"Their response now, which is
a strong one, is a sign for hope.
There are differences in funda-
mentals. But we are a people with
common historical backgrounds.
No religious belief can exist in a
watertight container. I don't be-
lieve we can remain in a vacuum
forever."
Rabbi Tannenbaum, in address-
ing the conference, urged Christian
leaders to "go it alone" in the area
of inter-religious cooperation. "The
striving for internal Christian
unity," he said, "might lead to a
pan-Christian exclusivisrn that
could ignore the authentic plualism
of the global human family." He
warned that such an approach
"could create a problem for all
non-Christian religious groups.

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, August 12, 1966-11

Eshkol Revises Strategy as Concession to Mapam

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol, eager to
placate leaders of the Mapam
Party to keep them from walking
out of the coalition Cabinet and
thus splitting the government, of-
fered Mapam new concessions in
regard to the government's pro-
posed, three-year economic policy.
The amended version offered
Mapam by Eshkol would freeze
dividends and the income of self-
employed by imposing a new,
30 per cent tax on additional
earnings, plus a possible 20 per
cent surtax. These taxes would
be levied on corporate and per-
sonal earnings only.
Eshkol worked out the amended
version of his economic program
at a conference with Finance Min-
ister Pinhas Sapir, Minister of
Commerce and Industry Haim
Zadok, and David Horowitz, gov-
ernor of the Bank of Israel.
Despite the concessions offered
Mapam, it was understood that
the leaders of that party are not
yet ready to give their full sup-
port to the new economic policy.
The government, however, is
proceeding to make plans for im-
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policy, coupled with a program
of austerity in Israel.
A Cabinet spokesman said that
one of the items in the new pro-
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One Killed, 24 Injured
In Israel Road Mishaps

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 32-
year-old Israeli- army doctor was
killed in Beersheba when his jeep
collided with a truck. Three sol-
diers riding in the jeep were thrown
clear of the collision and escaped
injury.
In Northern Israel, on the road
from Haifa to Kiriyat Shmone in
the upper Galilee, 24 persons were
critically injured when their bus
skided on a wet road and overturn-
ed into a ditch. The injured were
taken to a Haifa hospital. Police
authorities have started an inten-
sive investigation to establish
whether the bus had any mechani-
cal defects.

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Four-Month Trial Ends
in Sentences to Nazis

DUSSELDORF, West Germany
(JTA) — Horst Guido Huhn and
Karl Jung, were sentenced here
to seven years and three and a
half years imprisonment, respec-
tively, for their part in a 1941
massacre of Ukrainian Jews dur-
ing the Nazi occupation. In a trial
lasting several months four others
accused of complicity in the mur-
ders were acquitted.

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guests, and the two or three hun-
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