Orthodox Rabbinical Official
Rips Into Secular Leaders for
Holding Theologic Dialogues
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LAKEWOOD, N.J.—A top official
of the Rabbinical Council of Ameri_
ca sharply attacked leaders of Jew-
ish secular organizations for engag-
ing in religious doctrinal dialogues
with the Christian community as a
threat to the "unity and loyalties
of the Jewish community."
Rabbi Zev Segal, first vice presi-
dent of the Rabbinical Council, told
more than 500 delegates to the
organization's special religious
convocation at Hotel Brunswick
here that the secular leaders are
"incompetent and unqualified to
undertake such dialogues which, he
charged, are a "disservice and dam-
aging and undermine the religious
commitment and the religious in-
dividualism which has character-
ized the Jewish community in its
entire existence."
Secular agencies, he said, "must
cease this practice." He urged
them to "seek proper religious
guidance in the selection of topics
which are permissable and desir-
able," and admonished them "at
all costs, to avoid involvement in
theological doctrinal issues."
Re denied the contention of the
secular agencies that a dialogue
on the religious level is either
necessary or effective in creating
good relations between the re-
ligious communities. "On the
contrary," he said, "it tends to
divide them still further when
sensitive areas of beliefs are
touched."
Rabbi Segal emphasized that -
such dialogues would not result in
a better understanding and good
will between the Jewish and Chris-
tian religious communities.
The banquet session of the con-
vocation honored the president of
Yeshiva University, Dr. Samuel
Belkin, for 30 years of Tora leader-
ship.
In a further statement, Rabbi
Segal called upon the Jewish lead-
ers and organizations which have
been opposed to federal aid for
religious education to take note
that their opposition "will become
meaningful only if they provide the
private resources for the continued
existence of religious schools."
Without the help from the com-
munal agencies, the leaders of the
religious education movement in
America "may be forced to seek
against their will relief from the
government. This indeed would be
disastrous."
The head of the Rabbinical
Council called Monday for an
international conference of Jew-
ish leaders to reassess the situa-
tion and chart a new course in
behalf of Soviet Jewry.
Rabbi Pesach Z. Levovitz, presi-
dent, told the delegates that one
of the most hopeful signs, which
the world conference would be
asked to assess, is Soviet Premier
Kosygin's recent promise that
emigration would be allowed for
the purpose of reuniting families.
Rabbi Levovitz told the convo-
cation that the world conference,
which should be held "as soon as
possible," probably in Geneva,
should consist of such organiza-
tions as the American Jewish Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry, the Brit-
ish and South African boards of
Jewish deputies, the Consistoire
Generale and other interested or-
ganizations in France, and similar
organizations elsewhere in Europe
and America.
Rabbi Joseph Karasick, national
president of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America,
addressing the dinner session of the
convocation Sunday night, called
on President Johnson to issue a
declaration "guaranteeing t h e
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rity of Israel, and to invite the
Arab states to join with Israel in
a peace effort which will benefit
the entire region."
Rabbi Harry I. Wohlberg of
Brooklyn, chairman of the relig-
ious convocation, told the closing
session that the new rise of Nazism
in Germany is not a Jewish prob-
lem because there are so few
Jews in Germany.
It is a world problem, he said,
and the Jews have won the right
to warn mankind because "we paid
the highest price with our Six
Million martyrs.
"We must issue the most sol-
emn warning to the nations of
the world and to their leaders
to heed in time the danger sig-
nals that are flying in Germany."
Rabbi Wohlberg recalled that
"from small beginnings in 1928,
the Nazis' took over in 1933. We
have won the right to speak out.
We cannot remain silent and per-
mit indifference to bring about
another holocaust."
"The first thing that should be
done," Rabbi Wohlberg said, "is
to demand from Bonn that it out-
law the National Democratic Par-
ty" which, he charged, "includes
in its leadership and membership
a large proportion of admitted
Nazis."
Rabbi Wohlberg criticized the
State Department for refusing to
bar the deputy chairman of the
NDP, Adolf von Thadden, from
visiting the United States and re-
minded. Washington that in the
past they had no difficulty in bar-
ring Communists from this coun-
try. He asked "Are Nazis better
than Communists?"
The session approved a reso-
lution addressed to the West
German government appealing
for the adoption of severe meas-
ures to stamp out all vestiges
of Nazism.
USSR Charges Rise
in Anti-Semitism in
Germany; Bonn Denies
LONDON (JTA) — The foreign
ministry of the Soviet Union
charged officially Sunday that
"hardly a day passes without some
Nazi or anti-Semitic outburst" in
West Germany.
Moscow made this accusation in
notes delivered to the Moscow
embassies of the British, Ameri-
can, French and West German
governments, according to reports
received here.
The note delivered to the Ger-
man government was accompanied
by demands that it "take appro-
priate measures to cut short the
activities of neo-Nazi and militarist
forces."
The USSR charged West Ger-
many with laying the foundation
for a nuclear missile industry and
warned that "meetings, demonstra-
tions and torch processions are
held in West German cities that
hear striking likeness to the Nazi
gatherings of- the 30s." "Who can
guarantee, in these conditions,"
the note asked, "that some new
Hitler will not appear in West
Germany, and armed with nuclear
weapons to boot?"
Successes of the ultra-rightist
National Democratic Party in re-
cent elections in Hesse and Ba-
varia were also cited by Moscow
as a cause for alarm. The notes
indicate that the Soviet Union
felt its wartime allies had a
major responsibility for the rise
of neo-Nazism in West Germany.
(Bonn government sources said
that "the note is an attempt to
portray a contorted picture of gov-
ernment policy with a collection
of foul slander and distortions."
Observers said the sharp Soviet
criticism of West Germany was
aimed at allaying fears among
East German Communists over
possible effects in Eastern Europe
of Bonn's establishment of diplo-
matic relations with Romania.)
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Other resolutions called upon 6—Friday, February 3, 1967
the Soviet government to grant
opportunities for free and unquali-
fied religious freedom to its 3,-
000,000 Jewish inhabitants, called
upon the United States govern-
ment to take steps to strengthen
the security of Israel, and appealed
to the four Great Powers — U.S.,
Britain, France and the Soviet
Union — to concentrate their
efforts toward security in the Mid-
dle East. The council also ex-
pressed dismay and condemned
the "desecration of the Sabbath"
in certain centers and Y's through-
out the country."
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Anne Frank Diary
Figures in Trial of
Three SS Officers
MUNICH (JTA) — "The Diary
of Anne Frank" was introduced in
court Monday at the trial of Wil-
heim Zoepf, Gen. Wilheim Harster
and Gertrud Slottke, former SS
officers who are charged with the
murder of Dutch Jews deported
to Nazi concentration camps.
Harster told the court that two
groups of more than 700 Dutch
Jews, ages 18 to 35, whom he had
sent to the Mauthausen camp in
1941, had been destined for exter-
mination. Zoepf, who was ques-
tioned by an American attorney,
Robert Kempner, apearing in be-
half of Otto Frank, Anne Frank's
father, said that, among the Jews
sent to Germany, 48 per cent were
women and 22 per cent children
because his office "wanted to keep
families together."
Zoepf also said that every time
he saw Anne Frank's picture on
the cover of her book "it was
terrible for me."
Harster was the officer in charge
of deporting to concentration
camps 94,398 Jews from Holland,
including Anne Frank. Only 1,070
survived. He was commander of
the Nazi security police in occupied
Holland. Zoepf was his principal
aide, and Gertrud Slottke, his sec-
retary and director of the women's
division of the deportation project.
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