AJCommittee to Fight Oberammergau
With Decade-Long Educational_Program
NEW YORK — The American mains '- fundamentally- hostile to '
Jewish Committee announced it - Jews and Judaism."
Copies of the study were distri-
will embark on a systematic. de-
cade-long educational program to buted last spring to thousands of
counteract the anti-Semitic effects scholars, clergymen and travel
of the Oberammergau Passion agencies in the United States, Can-
ada and Europe. Since that time.
Play.
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum. na- Rabbi Tanenbaum declared, thou..;
tional director of AJC's inter- sands of tourists have bypassed
religious affairs department, made the play. He cited, among others, a
the announcement in connection Catholic priest in Cleveland who is
with the publication of the findings conducting a tour of Europe this
of AJC's line-by-line comparison of summer and who has canceled his
the 1960 and 1970 versions of the group's reservations at Oberam-
mergau and is taking them to visit
text of the play.
This analysis revealed that, de- Dachau instead.
The study, now in booklet form
spite some minor changes, the
Oberammergau Passion Play re- and titled. "Oberammergau. 1960
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and 1970: a Study in Religious
Anti-Semitism." is available from
the American Jewish Committee.
Rabbi Tanenbaum also report-
ed that the German airline, Luft-
hansa, has discontinued advertis-
ing the Oberammergau Passion
Play as a tourist attraction, and
that a number of priests, minis-
ters and Christian educators
who lead overseas tours of
Europe have declined to attend
the 1970 play.
Rabbi Tanenbaum expressed ap-
preciation of a statement by Fr.
Edward H. Flannery, executive
secretary of the Secretariat for
Cataholic-Jewish Relations of the
Roman Catholic Bishops' Commit-
tee for Ecumenical and Inter-
religious Affairs, who criticized
the Oberammergau play.
50,000 Amass
,at Wailing Wall
on Tisha b`Av
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Po lice
estimated that 50,000 persons
crowded into the square facing the
Western Wall Monday night to
usher in Tisha b'Av — the ninth
day of the Hebrew calendar month
of Av — commemorating the de-
struction of the Temple in Jeru-
salem by the Roman General Titus
I in 70 CE, exactly 1,900 years ago.
Synagogues here and in other
cities were filled with worshipers
who heard recital of the Scroll of
Lamentations.
Radio and television broadcasts
were limited to news and programs
befitting the solemn nature of the
occasion which the Orthodox hold
to be a day of mourning for the
temple. But only a small minority
of Israelis fast. Restaurants
throughout the country were open
for business as usual Monday
morning.
The Orthodox among the wor-
shipers at the wall had not cut
their facial hair for three weeks,
the period of Titus' attack on
this city prior to the destruc•
Lion of the Second Temple, which
had been built by Herod.
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Jewish Leaders Included on British Honors List
LONDON (JTA)—The new hon-
ors list, awarded at the request of
former Prime Minister Harold Wil-
son, contains the names of several
Jews.
John Diamond, chief secretary to
the Treasury, who lost his parlia-
mentary seat in the last election,
has been appointed a life peer.
A knighthood went to Joseph
Kagan, a Yorkshire industrialist,
who with his wife survived the
Nazi era in the ghetto of Kovno.
Poland, and came to England
after the war. Kagan is the inven-
A professor of biblical studies at tor of a new type of rainwear
Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, preferred by Wilson.
N.C., sent a copy of the original
Also knighted were Leslie Lever,
AJC critique to 70 members of
former lord mayor of Manchester
the college choir, who will tour and a member of Parliament for
Europe this summer. He attached
many years, and Dr. Joseph
a memorandum entitled "Anti- Stone, Wilson's personal physician.
: Semitism in the 1970 Production of
Among the new members of the
the Oberammergau Passion Play, -
House of Lords are several promin-
. in which he wrote:
ent .non-Jewish Anglo-Zionists: An-
"You will bear in mind that, at thony Greenwood, former minister
the direction of elected leaders of of housing: Julian Snow, former
the delightful country which you
will be visiting, no more than
25 years ago, 6.000.000 Jews
—brothers of Christ according to
the flesh — were systematically
slaughtered. Remembering this,
you will want to ask yourself
whether passion plays, such as
Oberammergau, and all that was
'said and preached about Jews
crucifying Christ and bearing the
guilt of his death upon their heads,
did not contribute toward that
tragedy."
Modes of dress ranged from
military uniforms to informal
shorts and slacks, with only a few
wearing the black rabbinical robes.
Head coverings were in colors as
well as black. Many of those
attending were youthful—including
a blind man who prayed from a
Braille Bible.
It was noted that no other ob-
servance by any other ethnic or
religious grouping has been main-
tained over so many years. Be-
tween 1948 and 1967 when Jordan
controlled the wall, were there no
gatherings there.
(See Commen-
tary, Page 2)
Trees and the Messiah
"If you should have a sapling in
your hand when they tell you that
the Messiah has arrived, first plant
the sapling and then go greet the
Messiah." — Johanan hen Zakai.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, August 14, 1970
undersecretary of health and social
security: Jennie Lee, former minis-
ter of arts: Alice Bacon, former
minister of state at the ministry of
education: and Irene White, former
minister of state at the ministry
for Welsh affairs.
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