THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 13, 1970
Jews, Christians
Urged to Join Vigil El Al Ends Association With Tours
Against Viet War Featuring Passion
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Play in Itinerary

NEW YORK (JTA)—El Al Israel
airlines, has terminated its associa-
tion with tours that feature the
Oberammergau, Germany, Passion
Play in their itinerary. The deci-
sion was made after the play's anti-
Semitic content was stressed by
the Anti-Defamation League of
Baal Brith in a protest to El Al
for its involvement.
In a letter to Arnold Forster,
general counsel of the ADL, Mor-
dechai Ben AH, president of El Al,
said he was "deeply grateful," to
the agency "for bringing this mat-
ter to our attention." El Al, he de-
clared, regretted its "unwitting
and implied support of the Ober-
ammergau Passion Play."
The airline had cooperated
with Orient Tours of London, in
an extension tour to. Israel of-
fered to Christian tourists at-
tending the Passion Play. Ben
Ari said that El Al's association
with a tour folder on "Oberam-
mergau and the Holy Land" re-
sulted from "the standard part-
nership between tour operators
and commercial airlines."
Forster said that the script of
the Oberammergau play, which is
used by some groups in this coun-
try too, maintains that the Jews
as a people are guilty of deicide.

Israel Offers Technical
Assist to Many Nations

JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Last
year, Israel sent technical experts
to 46 foreign, so-called underdevel-
oped countries including 19 in
Latin America alone.
The program also covers many
countries in Asia that are close to
the Vietnam front. In Laos, for ex-
ample, Israeli experts assisted in
250 different economic projects.
Israeli experts aided in the estab-
lishment of model villages in Cam-
bodia used to train 300 local stu-
dents in modern techniques. In
Thailand and in Nepal, Israelis
conduct agricultural schools with
an enrollment of 200.
Emphasis is placed on prepar-
ing the land for modern agricul-
ture as a prime national resource.
Model villages are established and
the latest techniques taught.

Lot 4
Eastland

Lot G
Northland

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eleven
religious leaders called upon Chris-
tians and Jews to organize a con-
tinuous vigil in front of the White
House beginning this past Wednes-
day (Ash Wednesday) through
Passover and continuing until
27 in protest over the war in Viet-
nam.

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threat and an international crisis,
Lent and Passover, 1970, is a spe-
cial time."

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The fast is sponsored by CAL-
CAV, an interreligious antiwar
group whose co-chairmen include
Rabbi Abraham Heschel, of the
Jewish Theological Seminary, and
FOR, an interfaith group whose na-
They also have called for a tional program director is Allen
"Freedom Seder" near the end of Brick.
Passover in which Jews and Chris-
tians will participate.

A statement signed by the 11
religious leaders including Rabbi
Arthur Lelyveld of Fairmont Tem-
ple, Cleveland, and Rabbi Balfour
Brickner, director of interfaith ac-
tivities of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, declared
that "In our situation, with the
Vietnam War both a domestic

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