THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, Hugest 28, 1970
Rabbis Urge Austria to Allow Anti-Nazi Center
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New
York Board of Rabbis, in a letter
to the Austrian ambassador to
the U.S., appealed to the Austrian
government not to close the anti-
Nazi Documentation Center in
Vienna headed by Simon Wiesen-
tha I.
According to information reach-
ing the U.S.. there was a strong
likelihood that this center, which
is responsible for hunting down
over 1,000 World War II criminals,
would be closed by the Austrian
government. In their letter to the
ambassador, the rabbis stated that
they were "appalled" at the pros-
pect of the center's closing.
"It seems incredible to us."
said the rabbis, "that your gov-
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ernment should take steps to
close down an instrumentality
whose function it is to trace
Nazi war criminals whose acts of
destruction of millions of people
represents the most heinous
crime of all time.
"Mr. Wiesenthat has made this
his life work, in a singular dedica-
tion which is the admiration of the
entire world and should be encour-
aged rather than discouraed by
your own government." they said.
Should the proposal to close this
documentation office be carried
out, it would be "construed by all
humanity as an endorsement by
your government of a period in
world history which is considered
the most shameful in the story of
man." the rabbis stated.
They closed their appeal to the
ambassador with the hope that
"Mr. Wiesenthal's office be allowed
to continue its sacred task of eradi-
cating evil from the earth." Last
week, a government official said
there is no intention to shut down
the center.
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Reciting Kidtlusli
in the Synagogue
'Broad Wall' of Bible Unearthed
plained that the wall had been
TEL AVIV—Israeli archeologists
built on a plateau of what later
the
have unearthed remains of
became known as the upper city
By RABBI SAMUEL FOX
biblical "broad wall" mentioned
of Jerusalem, which had no
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of
Jerusalem's
restoration
Some authorities refuse to allow in the
natural defenses.
fortifications after the return of
the kiddush to be recited over the the Jews from Babylonian exile.
Last year, Prof. Avigad's team
wine in the synagogue. They base
The 800-foot stretch of wall, some found remains of a settlement in
their rule on the talmudic law
23
feet
thick,
was
found
on
bed-
an
area between the newly excav-
that requires that kiddush (over
the wine) is to be recited only in rock 300 yards west of the Temple ated wall and the Temple Mount.
Mount,
according
to
Prof.
Nahman
He
said the new find establishes
the place where the meal is eaten.
This place would normally be the Avigad of the Hebrew University. that the settlement was part of
Its
height
varied
from
3
to
10
feet.
the
fortified city in the period of
home. It should be noted that there
is a "kiddush" recited in the syna-
The wall is called the broad the First Temple.
gogue in the course of the Sabbath
wall in both biblical references
The rate of reported infectious
prayers. The issue is over tile
to it—in Chapters 3 and 12 of
"kiddush" which is recited over
the Book of Nehemiah. Prof. syphilis in Detroit in 1969 was 31
the wine after the prayers. Nat-
Avigad said it probably was cases per 100,000 as compared with
withstanding the talmudic law
described in this way because a 55 cases per 100,000 in 1968, reports
which insisted that kiddush over
wall 23 feet thick was unusual the American Social Health Asso-
wine be recited only where a meal
in the Israelite period. He ex- ciation, a Torch Drive Service.
was eaten (Pesakim 101a), Rabbi
Amram claims that the kiddush
over the wine in the synagogue
was recited for the sake of the
wayfarers who would have their
Sabbath meal in the synagogue.
Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel claims
14601 W. Lincoln, Oak Park, Michigan 48237
that the kiddush over wine was
recited in the synagogue for the
sake of those who do not know how
to recite the kiddush over the wine
at home. His son, Rabbi Jacob,
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Some claimed that the kiddush
over the wine was recited in the
space
available.
synagogue so that the worshippers
might put a little of the wine to
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Modern authorities, especially in
many places in Israel, have done
away with the practice of reciting
the kiddush over the wine in the
synagogue, claiming that way-
farers no longer eat in the syna-
gogue and that everyone can learn
to recite the kiddush at home.
Some also feared that many might
rely on the kiddush recital in the
synagogue and fail to do it at home
BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUES announces the Sep-
over the wine before the meal.
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New Trial of Doctor
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first time to supervise the exter-
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told the Nazi authorities that doc-
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of that duty.
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Ludwig Zind, who was sentenced
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