Catholic Imprimatur for Oxford Annotated THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bible, Emendations Reflect Ecumenic Ideas Court Upholds Conduct
With several changes in its fore-
While the previous edition ex-
word and a number of annotations, presses hope that the Annotated
in the text, a new and revised edi- Oxford Bible may be helpful in
tion of "The Oxford Annotated continuing the dialogue "in pro-
Bible with the Apocrypha" is moting comprehension of . this
drawing a great deal of interest. great religious and literary heri-
Published by Oxford University tage of the Christian faith," the
Press (200 Madison, N.Y. 16), the newest edition deals with "the
immense work. with the Revised hearty commendation" of the
Standard Version text, has re- Protestant and Catholic scholars.
ceived the blessings of Catholic
In the introduction to Ecclesi-
and Protestant scholars.
astes, instead of the sentence "He
An Imprimatur has been re- does not accept the data of re-
ceived from Richard Cardinal vealed religion" is substituted with
Cushing, Archbishop of Boston.
the following: "He questions many
In the new text, there are 14
of the accepted beliefs of Hebrew
additions to the annotations, in
tradition."
addition to a change in the fore-
In the same introduction to
word, and these will appear in
Ecclesiastes, there is an almost
all future editions. The RSV
complete change in the third
footnotes and the supplementary
paragraph and the new edition's
articles in the text remain the
text reads: "The inclusion in the
same.
Jewish canon of Scripture of a
In the foreword, the third para-
work so much at variance with
graph has been altered.
dominant teaching may be ex-
plained by the traditional asso-
ciation with Solomon, its spon-
Canadian Court Voids
sorship by influential 'wise
men,' and the inclusion of an
Will Barring Marriage
orthodox postscript (12:9 - 14)
of Jewess to Catholic
which lays down the religious
MONTREAL (JTA)—A clause of position in the light of which it
is to be understood."
a will disinheriting a daughter for
marrying outside the Jewish faith
There are numerous changes in
was ruled invalid here because it the annotations to New Testament
was considered to be contrary to books. There is a note to Mark
Quebec's freedom of religion act. 16:8, adding the following to the
The ruling was handed down by original text: "From early Chris-
Associate Chief Justice George S.
Challies who found the provision
in the wills of Leon Klein, who Hias Needs $2,300,000
died in 1958, and his wife, who to Aid Refugees in '67
died 15 months earlier, contrary
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to Quebec law.
to The Jewish News)
GENEVA
— The United Hias
The daughter, Mrs. Dorothy
Klein Dorais, who was deprived Service will require a total of
of benefit by the will's restriction, $2,300,000 for its programs of refu-
appealed to the court, asking that gee migration assistance in 1967, it
the clause be declared void. She was announced here by Harry M.
had been married to a Roman Friedman, assistant secretary and
Catholic in a synagogue in the controller of Hias.
Addressing the concluding ses-
United States, but converted to
Catholicism two years after the sion of a two-day meeting here,
Friedman said that 8,200 Jewish
death of her father.
refugees will receive assistance in
their resettlement next year.
LET HAROLD KALT
In another address at the meet-
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given by his community to hun-
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found asylum in Mexico and who
were assisted with their welfare
needs during their processing for
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Dr. Joseph Kage, national ex-
ecutive vice president of the Jew-
ish Immigrant Aid Society of
Canada, confirmed the continued
strong interest of the Canadian
Jewish Community in receiving
migrants and refugees from Eu-
rope and Africa.
Referring to the experience in
immigration to the United States
under the new American legisla-
tion passed late in 1965, Gaynor
Jacobson, executive director of
Hias and chairman of the meeting,
pointed out that the United States
Planned to make every min-
continued to be the main area of
ute of your vacation pure
resettlement served by the agency.
pleasure, the Shalom makes
He expressed disappointment
sure you relax royally, feast
that the hoped-for results were not
sumptuously and live it up
quite achieved in 1966 mainly due
while you sail to the nicest
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tian times these verses have tradi-
tionally been accepted as part of
the canonical Gospel of Mark and
therefore as inspired Scripture."
In this fashion theological emenda-
tions are offered to comply with
Christian beliefs.
The acceptance of the changes
and the Imprimatur of the Catho-
lics are significant in the new
trends and of ecumenism. The
newly revised Oxford Annotated
Bible is the result of the interest-
ing religious developments in our
time.
University at Cleveland
Runs TV Judaism Course
CLEVELAND (JTA) — Western
Reserve University is sponsoring
a course on Judaism by television.
The course is taught by a rabbi
who is a faculty member of the
university.
"Introduction to Judaism" is
taught by Rabbi Bern a r d
Martin, Abba Hillel Silver As-
sociate Professor of Jewish Studies
at the school. The course, one of
a number sponsored by the univer-
sity, was designed for adults un-
able to attend courses on the
campus. The courses are given
without credit.
Friday, October 14, 1966-15
Hartford Hospital Expands
HARTFORD, Conn. (JTA)—The
board of directors of Mount Sinai
Hospital of Hartford made a col-
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (JTA) lective gift of $1,200,000 for expan-
-Officials of Ramapo 2 School Dis- sion of the hospital.
trict, who won a court rejection
of a petition to bar the use of
facilities of a synagogue and
church for public school pupils, in-
dicated that those facilities had
been used for that purpose since
the new school year began.
A group of 25 parents filed a
petition in White Plains with State
Supreme Court Justice John Dillon,
contending plans to use facilities
of Temple Beth El and St. Joseph's
Roman Catholic Church for an
overflow enrollment of public
school pupils was unconstitutional
in violation of the church-state
separation clause.
The petition asked that the Rock-
land County school board be ban-
ned from using the facilities of the
HANK NEWMAN
two Spring Valley religious institu-
President
tions. Justice Dillon rejected the
petition.
of School Classes in
Church, Synagogue
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