5 Orthodox Rabbinical Groups Oppose
Jewish-Christian 'Ecumenism'
Bus FireHospitalizes
10 Youths in England .
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 31, 1967-9
DeGaulle Thanks Tsur for Book 'Morning Prayer'
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JERUSALEM — "I heartily con-
Tsur thanking him for the
to The JTA
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Five Ortho - Board of Rabbis that the last
LONDON—Ten members of Ira- gratulat you on the talent you French translation of his book.
dox rabbinical organizations March Vatican declaration on improve- bonim, the Labor Zionist youth
have shown in 'Morning Prayer',
23 adopted a joint resolution con - ment of Christian-Jewish relations movement, were hospitalized and
demning the participation by Jew - was "an expression of regret or 23 others slightly injured when the where through your memories of
ish groups in "ecumenical" pro - contrition" by the Catholic Church. bus in which they were returning childhood and youth you .present
grams along with Christian reli
Speaking before the rabbinical from a four-day visit to a Zionist such a moving picture of the soc-
gious organizations.
body on the invitation of Rabbi training farm in Britain caught iety of Israel during its formative
years . I am glad of the oppor-
The Orthodox rabbinical groups
Edgar Siskin, president of the, fire. Six passengers were unhurt.
tunity thus offered me to say that
specifically "denounced" the par-
board, Archbishop Cody con- Fifteen ambulances took the in-
I well remembered the period dur-
ticipation of the Synagogue Coun-
ceded that the document adopt- jured young people to hospitals in ing which you represented the
cil of America in a conference
ed by the Ecumenical Council, three towns, where their condition State of Israel in Paris with such
in Boston next May with Catholic
and since promulgated as a de- was reported Tuesday to range
dignity and nobility."
and Protestant religious leaders.
cree by Pope Paul VI, "has not from "fair" to "satisfactory."
This is a translation of the letter
The resolution, which was pre-
satisfied everyone and, in truth,
The incident occurred in West-
President de Gaulle sent to
sented at a meeting at Mesivta
is not without its defects."
moreland
as
the
bus
was
return-
Tifereth Jerusalem, an Orthodox
however, the prelate stated, a
ing the 39 Habonim members
rabbinical seminary, was approved careful examination of the text
to their homes in Glasgow after
by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis indicates answers to some of the
DANNY
visit to the David Eder farm
of the United States and Canada, criticisms. He said that many of in the
Sussex,
RASKIN
the Union of Grand Rabbis, the the prelates at the council would
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Rabbinical Alliance of America. have preferred to mention the word
Eye witnesses said that the
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the Rabbinical Board of Greater "deicide," which had been deleted vehicle was suddenly enveloped in
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New York and the Metropolitan in the final version, "if only to smoke and flames. The young pas-
14500 W. 7 MILE
Board of Orthodox Rabbis.
see it permanently laid to rest." sengers smashed bus windows and
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Meanwhile, in Chicago, Arch- But even if the word was omitted ; jumped to safety, some with their Classified Ads Get Quick Results
bishop John P. Cody of the Chi- he pointed out, "a clear defini-, clothing and hair ablaze. rhe in
cago archdiocese, told the Chicago lion of the term is there and that jured youth were taken initia:ly to
, is more important."
a nearby farm where owner Har-
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The archbishop replied to those I riet Steel tore up sheets to make
Autopsy Protestors Are ' who criticized the document for bandages.
She reported that "some
etirhe icnIoNtl.leinreg pia,rt ah ce t i c alsliyghts with
Out on 11 ,.0 ;. Body Stolen' t zt. J",e,xvosnfeorrat,indgelekohr.."if)ovredieveinhgr': their
burned
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ing: "The Church has no right of off their backs."
to Stop Post-Mortem
'exonerating' or 'forgiving' the
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — Twelve Jews for something they, as a peo- '
• Copenhagen
• Stockholm
Sartre Snubs Military
persons accosted - after a recent pie, did not commit. Its intention .
• Bergen
• Oslo
demonstration against autopsies was simply to declare the fact on Current Visit to Israel
were released from jail last week that the .Tews, as a people were
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on 1,000 pre•nds ($333) bail each. never guilty of the crime. This is ; JERUSALEM—The French phi-
JULY 10th - JULY 31st
They were detained on suspicion of an important distinction which has , losupher Jean Paul Sartre, who is
assaulting nolicemen and dis- been overlooked by many. particu- visiting Israel, canceled Tuesday
O from Detroit
orderly conduct. tarty the press." , a scheduled meeting with Chief
Meanwhile police were search- "To my mind." said the arch- of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, as well
ing the Kurdish quarter of Jerusa- bishop, "too much attention has as visits to a number of military
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lem for the, body of
Kurdish Jew been paid to the wording of the installations. Though he (lid not
that was stolen from the morgue statement and not enough to its give a reason for his actions, it
at Shaarei Zedek Hospital in an historical significance when seen was believed that it was motivated
apparent attempt to prevent police as a whole." Ile told the rabbis ' by a desire to demonstrate his
from carrying out a post-mortem that the Church's expression of "anti-militarism."
examination.
regret or contrition "was certainly
The dead man, Nahum Nahum, the intent of Pope John XXIII
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had been knifed in an argument
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called for it,
no doubt it was •
during a card game in a Jerusa- at least implicitly, that of the
lem cafe. and he died on the Council Fathers."
way to the hospital.
Rumors that the police intended
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spread throughout the Kurdish S hehita Rapped in Ohio
quarter where the victim's family
CLEVELAND (JTA)—The intro- t
lives, and several hundred religious duction of an amendment to the
zealots, mainly yeshiva students. statewide Humane Slaughter Law Jr *
gathered amend the hospital and in the State Legislature was con-
urged the f -Imily to remove the demned here Tuesday as "aimed L
nr-
Of all the nights in
body from the morgue.
at eliminating ritual slaughter in
Shortly after midnight, March 2t. Ohio."
the year, those of
several persons broke into the
A. M. Braun, chairman of the *
Pesach are tradition-
morgue and stole the corpse. Po- kashrut board of the Cleveland
ally the ones when
lice believe the body is either hid- Jewish Federation, said that the
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you and your entire
den or has been secretly buried in amendment. which would require
the Kurdish quarter.
family get together.
that the products of ritual slaugh- *
r ter be "specifically marketed as
What better way to
Israel's 1...bor Minister
such, "will "definitely bring to an
commemorate t h e
end ritual slaughtering, which the '.. 1r
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dared 'humane.' "
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