Orthodox, Christian Bodies Will Discuss Jewish Protests Secure Withdrawal of Slaughter Bill CITY, Mo. (JTA) sociation of Greater Kansas City, public bus transportation to pupils Vital Issues 'of Universal Religious Concern' — JEFFERSON A bill considered potentially said that it offered a "benign NEW YORK (JTA) — Stressing that it would not alter its long- standing policy of avoiding any interfaith dialogues on purely theo- logical themes, the Synagogue 'Council of America (Orthodox) Confirmed Monday that it will par- ticipate in a series of discussions on issues "of universal religious ' Concern" with Protestant and Ro- man Catholic groups. Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive director of the SCA, told the Jew- ish Telegraphic Agency Monday that the organization would hold is first formal interfaith discus- "ons on religious views of various ,-- — problems with the Episcopal Church in New York on March 5 I and 6, and with the National Coun- cil of Churches and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Boston on May 7 and 8. He noted that, while the planned meetings did not represent any change in policy by the Synagogue Council, they did involve a new departure as far as program was concerned in that they were the first discussions to be held on re- ligious values toward various is- ,- sues. In the past, he said, the SCA had engaged in joint social ac- tion on certain issues but not in discussion of religious values with regard to these issues. The SCA official emphasized that the organization still followed the guidelines on interfaith dis- cussion as put forward by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitehik of Boston, a leading Orthodox rabbinic auth- ority, which called for the limiting of interfaith discussion to "uni- versal religious problems" and bars dialogue on purely theological questions. The meeting with Episcopalian leaders next month will deal with family life, while the meeting in Boston in May would deal with the role of religious conscience as applied to five specific areas—war and peace, racial justice, society's economic obligations to its citi- zens, state aid to religious educa- tion and law and religious con- science. Rabbi Siegman pointed out that the issues to be dealt with at the forthcoming conferences would concern not only the social aspects of the problems but will bring to bear on the discussions the con- tributions of the religious heritage of the three faiths. Bishop, Rabbi Cite Gains in Interfaith Accord (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) ROCHESTER, N. Y.—A leading Catholic bishop and a rabbinical expert on interfaith relations, speaking at a synagogue here Wednesday night, hailed gains in Jewish-Christian understanding. The speakers were Bishop Ful- ton J. Sheen, newly appointed bishop of Rochester, and Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of New York, director of interreligious activities of the American Jewish Commit- tee. They addressed an open meet- ing at Temple Brith Kodesh, spon- sored by the Catholic Diocese of Rochester, the Jewish Community Council and the AJCommittee as the final event of a day-long sym- posium on "The Jewish People and the Catholic People Look at Each Other." It was the prelate's first public address on Jewish. Christian rela- tions since his appointment. HEBREW SELF-TAUGHT BY AHARON ROSEN n milk a .186 warm, hot on bah - lahv bahm which(fem.) (7irtity? ni: X .187 cold IP_ ih - ze (ell -zoh) kahr please nrirn .188 to me (1 have) (4t, 7j4) 41? b'vah -kah -shah " • lee (yehsh lee) • order waiter seh-der "I'?? (in order) mel-tsahr (b`seh-der) thing, matter wish (m.s.) roh-tse dah-vahr T T .181 .182 .183 .184 .185 harmful to shehita was withdrawn from the current session of the Missouri General Assembly after a delegation from the Jewish com. munities of St. Louis and Kansas City appeared here to oppose it even though the present version would have exempted ritual slaugh- ter from its restrictions. The bill, introduced by Rep. R. D. Rodgers, and promoted by the Humane Society of Missouri and a group known as the "Friends of Animals," would have restricted the slaughter of livestock to those methods rendering the animal in- sensible to pain by "mechanical, electrical, chemical or other means." It specifically exempted methods of slaughtering "in ac- cordance with ritual requirements of the Jewish faith." Rep. Rodgers withdrew the bill after Rabbi Maurice D. Solomon, president of the Rabbinical As- of non-public schools. The bill was favor to the Jewish faith" by a described in a council resolution "liberal-minded party of legislators, as "an invasion of the First Amend- who are in no position to assure ment guarantee of separation of the Jewish community that their church and state." possible successors would also be so disposed." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS * * Indiana Jews Oppose Slaughter, Bus Bills SOUTH BEND, Ind. (JTA) — The Indiana Jewish Community Council at its semi-annual meet- ing here voted to oppose a bill slated to come before the state legislature that would regulate the slaughter of meat animals. Delegates voiced opposition to the so-called "humane" slaugh- ter bill "unless it defined kosher slaughter as humane." Opposition was also voted to a measure that would extend the state school bus bill by providing Knesset Gets 5-Year Plan for Increased Productivity JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new five-year plan for Israeli industry calling for a total increase in out- put of $1,300,000,000 and the doubling of exports, was introduc- ed into the Knesset Monday by Zev Shell, Israel's minister of commerce and industry. The plan calls for major invest- ments to be made in plants manu- facturing machine tools and agri- cultural equipment which are usually made to individual speci- fication and do not call for mass production requiring large mar- kets. The industrial scheme will pro- vide jobs for 100,000 workers, in- cluding 70,000 new openings and 30,000 replacements for retiring workers. 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