12—Friday, December 30, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS' Dr . Judah Pilch Heads

'Talk-Back' TV Programs Providing
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Stage for Bigots,
AJCommittee Says

NEW YORK (JTA)—The Ameri- too well what tragedy big lies
can broadcasting industry has been can beget."
As examples, the ASC cited two
urged by the American Jewish
Committee to police itself aginst recent cases. In one, a Negro anti-
abuses on programs such as the Semite made the charge unan-
Alan Burke Show and the Joe Pyne swered on the program, that Jew-
Show, which are providing a plat- ish school principals in Harlem
form for bigots to spread their were directly responsible for Negro
propaganda to large audiences. children's poor learning records. In
"We bar the airwaves to frauds, the other, a notorious bigot made
slanderers a n d pornographers. the "wild allegation" that Jews
Why, then, open them to bigots, had plotted to drag the United
who often represent no one but States into World War I so as to
their own warped selves, and win support for the idea of a Jew-
whose invited appearances on cer- ish homeland.
The AJC hailed the intent of the
taro programs are meant only to
irritate, not to educate?" the AJC Federal Communications Commis-
sion
in insisting that broadcasters
asked.
It referred especially to abuses air public issues and provide a
of "talk-back" programs, stating hearing for all points of vew. It
that "in their mad dash for ever said that some programs genuinely
more sensational guests, the pro- fill this responsibility. "Unfortun-
ducers provide big audiences for ately," it added, "with audience
some exceedingly questionable response the be-all and end-all,
characters." their ratings appear to have been
I he AJC cited a recent interview too low."
with David Susskind in which the
"The 'talk-back' format was
television producer said he was not evidently designed to provide
concerned that "kooks and bigots" more entertainment, yet stay
were getting the limelight on the within FCC rules," the statement
group that they quickly' exposed continued. "But whether they
themselves under the camera's conform to these rules or not,
some 'talk-back' shows clearly
clinical eye. "But is this so?" the
statement asked.
violate the intent of the broad-
"Too often. guests on these pro-
casting industry's own code.
grams are masters of the 'big-
"In doing so, they inflict great
lie' technique, and frequently harm on the public and on the in-
neither the moderator, no matter dustry—harm that could be avoided
how angry he pretends to be- if broadcasting were to police itself
come, nor questioners from the according to the spirit as well as
studio audience are equipped to the letter of its own standards."
nail the lies. Yet we know only

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Catholic Priest Denies
Talmud Anti-Christian,
Blames .Crusade Era

ROME (JTA)—A Paris Catholic
Institute priest told a Gregorian
University audience here that it
was "absolutely untrue" that such
Jewish religious works as the Tal-
mud or the Shulhan Arukh con-
demned Christianity or expressed
antagonism to it.
Ile declared that charges of
Jewish hostility against Christain-
ity stemmed mostly from the fact
that the Christian censors of the
Talmud changed and substituted
words, either in ignorance or with
the purpose of "proving" Jewish
* enmity against Christians.

I Histadrut Ivrit Body

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

LONG BEACH — Dr. Judah
Pilch, New York educator, was
elected president Tuesday of the
Histadrut Ivrit
of America at
the closing ses-
sion of the or-
ganization's con-
vention. The His-
tadrut Ivrit seeks
to advance the
Hebrew language
and culture in
this country.
Dr. Pilch told t.
the convention Dr. Pilch
that a plan proposed earlier in
the convention for creation of an
American Council for the Advance-
ment of Hebrew Language and
Culture could mark "a new epoch
in the history of the Hebrew
movement in America." Rabbi
Theodore Friedman of South Or-
ange, N.J., and Shemeon Pollock
were elected vice presidents.

Jewish Agency Spokesman
at ZOD Executive, Jan. 5

Abraham Sharir, of the Jewish
Agency staff in New York, will
address the executive board of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit
8 p.m. Thursday at the Zionist
Cultural Center, 18501 W. 10-Mile,
Southfield.

Friendship is the only thing in
the world concerning the useful-
ness of which all mankind are
agreed. ' —Cicero

No matter how
you figure it,

Spain Seeks OK of Law by Vatican

MADRID (JTA) — The legis- Catholic faiths also will be free
lation providing for freedom of from obligatory attendance at
religion in Spain for Jews and Catholic services or teachings in
Protestants, endorsed by the Span- Spanish schools, armed forces
ish College of Bishops and ap- and prisons.
proved by a national referendum
General Franco, in his talk with
this month, will not be sent for Dr. Wexler and Joftes, recalled the
passage to the Cortes, the Spanish orders he gave Spanish diplomatic
parliament, until it is endorsed by and consular officials in Europe
the Vatican, it was learned here.
during World War II to offer pro-
The legislation, which has been tection to Jews persecuted by the
in preparation for 10 years, has Nazis,
been scheduled to be placed before
Large numbers of Jews living
the Cortes on Jan. 20.
elsewhere in Europe, many of
Generalissimo Franco received them expelled from Spain in 1492,
the international president of the were returned under that policy.
Bnai Brith, Dr. William Wexler, Spain also provided transit visas
and told him that he considered for thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi
the legislation as a "simple act of persecution and seeking to get to
justice." Dr. Wexler was accom- the United States, Latin America
panied by Saul E. Joftes, director- and elsewhere.
general of the Bnai Brith office of
international affairs.
For Some
The two leaders also met with
other high Spanish officials and
of the
suggested to them that they send
best
buys
an exhibit of the art of Spanish
on new
Jews to the United States.
Pontiacs
The new legislation will allow
Jews and other non-Catholics to
and
worship openly in clearly-
Tempests
marked houses of worship, to
form religious associations, to
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celebrate civil marriages and to
be buried in their own ceme-
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Father Ilruby, the speaker,
said that prior to the Crusades
a "true dialogue" was beginning
to develop between Christianity
and Judaism, but that the era of
the Crusades destroyed all such
efforts.
He noted that a basic principle

of Judaism has always been to
treat the stranger as a brother
and to remember "because you
have been strangers yourselves in
Egypt whence I have taken you
out." Father Hruby quoted the
passage in Hebrew.
Father Hruby's audience includ -
ed Augustin Cardinal Bea, head
of the Vatican Secretariat on Re-
lations with non - Christian re-
ligions, who drafted the original
text of the statement on Catholic-
Jewish relations which was ap-
proved by the Ecumenical Council
and promulgated by Pope Paul VI
as official Church doctrine. It was
noted that Cardinal Bea proposed,
in a recent article, that religious
leaders seek in their own text-
books. as well as in those of other
religions, for expressions of "inter-
religious" goodwill and mutual
appre,ciation.

Dallas Day School Builds

DALLAS (JTA) — A new wing
will be built for the Akiba Aca-
demy, a Jewish day school. The
wing will be financed by Paul and
Leah Lewis and will be named
in memory of their son, Morton A.

Lewis. The new addition will pro-
vide facilities for the growing
student enrollment of the day

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