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August 22, 1969 - Image 5

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1969-08-22

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Israel Appeals for Action to Save 12 in Iraq Intercession on Behalf of Iraqis

(Continued from Page 1)
recently a Jew was killed in a
to investigate the condition of Baghd ad street but authorities
Jews in Iraq and other Arab coun- made no effort in investigate the
tries without delay. Shlomo Hind, crime. Hillel said Iraq reneged on
deputy director of the Israel For- a promise by its president that any
eign Ministry urged world opinion Jew who wished to leave the coun-
to exert pressure on the Iraqi try could do so. He said that out
authorities. He said the mock of 1,500 applicants, an exit visa
trials in Baghdad could signal a was granted to only one, an aged
new wave of hangings and persecu- woman who was permitted to leave
the country after having spent two
tion for Iraqi Jews.
Eban, in his note to Thant, de- years in jail.
Announcement by the Baghdad
clared that "the public and bar-
baric hangings of Jews in a mar- regime of the arrest of the 12 men
and
women and their imminent
ket place in Baghdad last January
shocked the entire civilized world trial before a revolutionary court.
but apparently did not deter the prompted an Israeli cabinet min-
Baghdad rulers who have decided ister Tuesday to call on Israel and
to continue with mock trials and Jews throughout the world for
executions." Eban said the danger prompt action to bring about the
facing the Jews of Iraq is now at evacuation of all the Jews remain-
its height with scores of them im- ing in Iraq and their establishment
prisoned and thousands of others in a safe haven.
Menahem Begin, leader of the
oppressed and fearful for their
Herut party and a minister-with-
lives.
out-portfolio
in the coalition gov-
Eban toll Thant that he thought
the action taken by the UN in the ernment, said two more Iraqi Jews
aftermathl of last January's hang- "are in the shadow of the gallows
ings was.. "inadequate" and in in Baghdad" and "it is our duty
"sharp contrast to the energetic to act in time to save our innocent
action" taken by the UN which ap- brethren who are threatened with
pointed another commission to in- juridical murder." Begin said that
vestigate the situation of Arabs in "past experience raises the hope
the Israeli-occupied areas. Eban that if we e m plo y all the
referred to a special committee of moral force at our disposal to
the UN Human Rights Commission , awaken enlighten public opinion,
which is presently hearing testi- we shall be able to save the vic-
mony in the Arab capitals of al- tims of the Iraqi plot."
In Washington, State Depart-
leged mistreatment of Arabs under
ment of f i c ia Is said Wednes-
Israeli rule.
day
United States intercession on
Ebans note was delivered per-
sonally to Thant Monday evening behalf of Jews and others arrested
in
Iraq
might do more harm than
at his UN office by Israel's UN
good in view of American-Iraqi
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah.
relations.
said that those ar-
Pattel, in his appeal to the Hu- rested in They
the last few days were
man Rights Commission said the obviously
in peril of arbitrary death
Iraqi regime was "infringing in sentence but
there was nothing the
the most barbaric way on the ' U.S. could accomplish
by direct
human rights of the Jewish minor- I representations to Barhdad.
ity." He said the Abdou brothers
were arrested a year ago and held
JEWS OF COLUMBUS, O.
incommunicado. It was only this
week that their family learned ' Jews have lived in Columbus,
from Baghdad Radio that they the capital of Ohio, since 1838. Its
first congregation was Bnai Jesh-
were to go on trial.
Hillel said that all hopes that urin, now known as Temple Israel,
the condition of Iraqi Jews might and was founded in 1852 by the
improve have faded. He said that city's Reform Jews. There are ap-
five Jews have died or been killed 1 proximately 10,000 Jews in Colum-
in Iraqi prisons so far and only • bus.

,

Church-State Issue in Schools Probed
in Discussion Guide by Philip Jacobson

Where does relit on fit into the
school curriculum, considering
that the public school is an insti-
tution maintained by public funds?
What responsibility, if any, does
the government have for the sup-
port of religiously controlled
schools?
These basic questions and a
wide variety of subsidiary ones are
examined from all angles in a
new version of a discussion guide
titled "Religion in Public Educa-
tion," just pubLhed by the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, that pro-
vides background information and
an exposition of various points of
view for parents, educators and
religious leaders who must face
church-school issues in their own
communities.
The guide was prepared by
Philip Jacobson, program co-
ordinator of the National Jew-
ish Community Relations Ad-
visory Council, and former di-
rector of church-state relations
of the AJC.
Dean M. Kelley, director for

civil and religious liberty of the
National Council of the Churches
of Christ in the U.S.A., who wrote
a foreword to the new handbook,

calls Jacobson "one of the best-
informed scholars in the country
on the many troublesome and com-
plex problems of religion and pub-
lic education."
Jacobson delineates nine specific
Issues that form the basis for
most controversy: separation of
church and state: government aid
to education; teaching about reli-

gion; Christmas observance; moral
and spiritual values; prayer and
bible reading; dual enrollment:
released time; and the use of
school pr em is e s by religious

groups.

For each subject, he presents an
historical background, the argu-
ments pro and con, proposed solu-
tions to the problem and a series
of discussion questions for consid-
eration.

It was suggested that other na-
tions possessing better links with
the Arabs might more effectively
involve themselves if such coun-
tries felt so disposed.
Palestinian Mother Testifies
Before UN Investigators
LONDON (JTA)—A 23-year-old
Palestinian mother who was ar-
rested by Israeli authorities for
terrorist activities in July 1968
testified before a United Nations
group in Amman Tuesday that
Israel oppressed and tortured
Arabs in violations of the Geneva
Convention.
Mrs. Abla Taha was the 30th
witness to appear before a special
committee of the UN Human Rights
Commission charged with investi-
gating the condition of Arab civili-
ans in the territories occupied by
Israeli during the June 1967 war.
The committee has held hearings
in Beirut and Damascus and will
move to Cairo after its sessions in
Amman.
Another witness in Amman was
Maj. Derek Cooper, A British re-
lief worker, who haid he had no
doubt that there had always been
carefully organized Israeli pres-
sure to compel Arab inhabitants to
flee their country.

Urged by Community Council

In a telegram to Secretary of State William Rogers, the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit "urged and implored"
every possible intercession to prevent the summary sentencing and
execution of alleged spies by Iraq.
The action was triggered by the announcement that 12 Iraqi
citizens are to be tried for acts of espionage. Recalling the wide-
spread protest over two similar occasions earlier this year when
public spectacles centered about mass hangings, the Council message
pleaded against a "repetition of the barbaric acts of recent months
which shamed mankind."
The Council message was signed by Avern L. Cohn, Council vice
president and chairman of its community relations committee.
As chairman of the Rabbinical Commission of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, Rabbi Leon Fram said that Detroit's synagogues and
temples would "pray for the people of Iraq, that they may be re-
lieved of the tyranny that perpetuates such monstrous injustices."

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