Peace Movement Draws Wide Sector of Community'
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be brought to a prompt and com-
plete end." The signed petitions
will be sent to President Nixon
and Michigan's senators and con-
gressmen.
Swerdlow stressed that Oak
Parkers for Peace seeks to
"work in a lawful and re-
sponsible maner for an end to
our nation's participation in this
conflict." Students from Oak
Park High School helped distri-
bute petitions door to door
Wednesday. Many attended the
rally downtown.
At least one dissenting opinion
came from Rabbi Moses Lehrman
of Cong. Bnai Moshe, who said Ini
"cannot subscribe to this kind of
gesture that asks for immediate
disengagement. How can I ask the
President to call for withdrawal
all at once without creating havoc
and a great peril to the United
States and our armed forces?"
In a lecture to congregation
members Tuesday night, Rabbi
Lehrman outlined his views on the
war. "While it is my firm hope
there will be peace in Vietnam—
and tomorrow is not too soon,"
he said, "I want such a pullout to
be without hazard. I am not an
authority on the situation; my
President is."
Jewish involvement in the mora-
torium day was more on an in-
dividual than an organizational
basis. They were among the thou-
sands who participated in the
march from Wayne State Univer-
sity to Kennedy Square, includ-
ing students who had been excused
from some classes for the day.
Hillel Foundation offices were
record for three years as calling
on Presidents to stop the bombing
Rabbi Max Eapustin, participated
down with the
w ith other religious leaders in a
The Union of American Hebrew in Vietnam," sit
and
prayer service Tuesday at the New- Congregations strongly endorsed , National Liberation Front
man chapel (Catholic).
the moratorium and was joined by move quickly toward a negotiated
Participants in the rally pro• other national Jewish organiza- peace."
gram included Wayne faculty
One New York event was a noon
tions in anti-war declarations. 1
nwmbers, among them Ernest
A Reform rabbinical leader ac- worship service at the House of
Benjamin of Monteith College,
Living Judaism on Fifth Ave. spon-
who has been active in the or- cused President Nixon and De- sored by the Union of American
fense Secretary Melvin Laird of
ganization of theicampus demon-
"political insensitivity, arrogance Hebrew Congregations (Reform).
stration. Almost the entire Mon-
and callousness" for their rejec-
teith humanistic studies division,
of the nationwide protest THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
chaired by Martin Herman, dis- tion
Friday, October 17, 1969-5
the Vietnam war. The criti-
tributed anti - war material at the againSt
cism was voiced by Rabbi Roland
General Motors and Fisher build- B. Gittelsohn of Boston, president
ings Wednesday.
of the Central Conference of Amer-
Classes at the University of ican Rabbis, the rabbinical branch
Michigan were canceled with the of Reform Judaism in America.
approval of President Robber, Rabbi Gittelsohn, at a meeting of
Fleming. Members of the Jewish the CCAR's executive board, re-
Peace Fellowship took part in the ferred specifically to a statement
demonstration against the war.
by President Nixon at a recent
There and at Macomb Commu- press conference that he would ;
nity College, poet Allen Ginsberg not be - affected whatsoever" by
addressed the student protest.
the anti - war protest. Rabbi Gittel-
Most Jewish agency offices re- sohn said the war was the "most
those
crucial moral issue facing the
mained open Wednesday, but
of the American Jewish Congress. country" and warned that the
in the Blaze' Building, were closed. Nixon administration "seems de-
Neither the Jewish Center nor termined to repeat the tragedies of
Children's the last administration."
Jewish Family and
closed Wednesday: Its director, ;
Service was closed, but individual
staff memhers who wished to
take personal leave time could do
so. One observer reported that at-
tendance at the Center was down
on Wednesday.
Many national groups joined
actively in the protests. At He-
brew Union College - Jewish In-
stitute of Religion in Cincinnati:
Jewish students held special pro-
test services, blew the shofar
and expressed vigorous protest
Interest Wanes in Mosque Trial;
Tories Hit British Govt. for U:\ Vote
at a reception given by the local
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Friendship League.
end of last week, the 400-seat hall Anglo - Israel Kershaw, member of
was more than half empty and
overseas television camera crews
were complaining that their mate-
rial was not being used at home.
Accounts of the trial moved
from the front pages to inside
pages of Israeli newspapers, indi-
cating flagging interest in the pro-
ceedings of the accused arsonist
As Rohan's defense witnesses Fri-
day, there were only 20 newsmen
in the courtroom compared to 45
when the trial opened the previous
Monday.
The damaged mosque itself was
the scene of a Moslem ceremonial
Oct. 8. The occasion was a holiday
commemorating the ascent to
heaven of the Prophet Mohammed
from the site on which the mosque
now stands. That religious event
makes the Al Aksa mosque the
third holiest shrine of Islam. The
mosque was re-opened for prayers
two weeks ago, its burnt-out sec-
tion concealed from worshipers by
a partition.
In England, delegates to
the Conservative party conference
at Brighton unanimously criticized
the British vote for the recent Se-
curity Council resolution implicitly
blaming Israel for the mosque fire.
The delegates expressed that view
German State Prosecuter
Reported Studying Perjury
Charge Against Kiesinger
BONN (JTA) —Chancellor Kurt
George Kiesinger, whose Christian
Democratic Union will be out of
the West German government for
the first time in 20 years as a
result of last month's national
elections, is under investigation by
the state prosecutor for possible
perjury.
Chancellor Kiesinger testified at
a war crimes trial last year that
he was unaware that genocide was
being committed against Jews
during the Nazi era. The prose-
cutor reportedly may enlist the aid
of the United- States to obtain cer-
tain pertinent documents. It is not
known whether Chancellor Kie-
singer will enjoy diplomatic int-
Munity in ex-officio status.
Anthony
parliament and personal assistant
to Edward Beath, the opposition
leader, said in a speech at the re-
ception that he spoke for Heath as
well as for himself in strongly
criticizing the Labor government
for its vole on the resolution.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
has personally replied to a Jewish -
protest against the vote. The pro-
test was lodged by Sidney Gold-
berg, general secretary of the
l'oale Zion, a Labor Zionist organ-
ization affiliated with the British
Labor Party. In a letter to Gold-
berg. Wilson wrote. "I am sure
you will have read Lord Caradon's
I Britain's permanent representa-
tive to the UN) two speeches dur-
ing this debate and the resolution
in favor of which the goverment
voted. I hope that you would agree
that there is nothing in the reso-
lution itself or in the statement
made on behalf of the government
by Lord Caradon which could be
construed as support for an Arab
campaign to incite racial prejudice
and hatred."
against the war and demands
for an immediate peace.
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Students of the Jewish Theo-
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Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion (Reform) participated
in a joint prayer service in the
morning at Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza near the United Nations.
In addition, special services with
sermons on the war took place
in synagogues everywhere.
A number of Jewish agencies in-
dicated that they would hold their
own programs and let their em-
ployes leave work early in order
to participate in local or coin-
munity-wide programs where they
live. Rabbis in various cities
joined to sign petitions opposing
the war.
A typical anti-war position was
announced by the executive com-
mittee of the National Association
of Jewish Center Workers which,
in voting support for the mora-
torium, noted that it had been on
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