TM DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 31, 1969-15

A Kiss for Grandpa Salo Baron

• Jewish historian Salo W. Baron gets the best kind of congratula-
tioas=hugs and kisses—from granddaughters Sharon, 8 (left), and
Elisabeth, 6, at a Bnai Brith luncheon in New York where he re-
ceived the organization's 1969 Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence
In :- Jewish literature." Dr. Baron was presented the $1,000 literary
prtsebefore a gathering of more than 200 scholars, academicians and
Je*ah communal leaders by Dr. Harold Weisberg (left) of Brandeis
IlaUgrsity, chairman of Bnai Brith's adult Jewish education commis-
ifi(101. The 73-year-old Columbia professor is the fourth recipient of the
award, given annually by Bnai Brith to a writer who "makes a posi-
tive„contribution to contemporary literature by his authentic inter-
pretation of Jewish life and values."

Prelate Hits U.S. Christians
for Indifference to Israel

cial prediliction of the Church

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK—A priest active in

interrtlligious relations was on rec-
ord:Wednesday as critical of the
Am tan Christian community for
a gIieralized indifference to the
welfare of Israel that shades off
into hostility toward Israel.

The charge was made by Rev.

Edward H. Flannery, executive
secretary of the U.S. Catholic Bis-
hops Secretariat for Christian-
Jewish Relations, during a confer-
ence on the Middle East crisis and

its effect on interreligious relations
held Monday under auspices of
the National Conference of Chris-

tians and Jews. A summary of the
discussion was made public Wed-

nesday-
Participants in the conference
subsequently signed a telegram to
President Nixon calling for con-
demnation of Iraq for the hang-
ing of 14 alleged spies, denounc-
ing the action as a matter for men
of Conscience of all creeds and
beliefs' to decry.
Fr. Flannery told the participa-
fmg' clergymen that the central
issue in the Arab-Israeli confront-
ation was whether the State of
Israel has a right to exist and
grow. Commenting on the fragility
of Iewish-Christian relations, the
priest noted an over-expectation
go the Jewish community of what
tO expect from dialogue held thus
fire and complained that some
&Nish spokesmen tend to over-
littarge the Christian community
Ili these crises. On the Christian
strej he said, the community has
ti) Contend with the fruit of
agtrangement and alienation that
has +been going on for 2,000 years.
*Idle it is not acceptable to

for the Jews.
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, direc-
tor of the commission on inter-
faith activities of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
told the conference that the Jewish
community was driven toward a
posture of withdrawal and dis-
agreement because of growing
animosity between blacks and
Jews and the apparently continu-
ing Christian inability to under-
stand the Israeli plea.
He warned that if the voices of
Christianity treat the anti-Semitic
invectives of the blacks with the
same dispassionate aloofness with
which the Jewish community feels
the Christian community has re-
sponded to Jewish cries of support
for Israel, it may discover—hope-
fully not too late—that it has un-
wittingly and inadvertently aided
the growth of a more generalized
anti-Semitism, crippled the cause
of black progress and indirectly
contributed to the souring of the
American mood.

Speaking critically of the
Christian attitude on the Middle
East situation. Rabbi Brickner
said that Christians has failed
to distinguish between tactics,
the question involved in the
Israeli raid on Beirut and the
fundamental morality of Israel's
right to exist.
Had the voices of Christendom

made even this elemental distinc-
tion between tactic and morality,
the rabbi asserted, Jewish-Chris-
tian relations would not be as
badly bruised as they are now.
"Had the voices of Christian con-
science been raised even in recog-
nition of Israel's feeling of inter-
national isolation or in sympathy
with the nation's need to respond
Da' anti-Semitic, he said, and- to the growing frustrated anger of
Stmitism comes out In veiled her beleaguered populace, Amer-
*airs. The affirmed that the long ican Jewry would have better
$tstory of Christian charges of understood all the advice Chris-
Betide must give way to the tians have to share regarding the
Pauline tradition that there is plight of the Arab refugees or the
a special bond and tie and spe . City of Jerusalem.?' he

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