Catholic Official Denies That the Pope
Favors Jerusalem's Internationalization
SOUTH, ORANGE, N.J. (JTA)-
Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher, di-
rector of the Institute of Judaeo-
Christian Studies at Seton Hall
University here, has rejected al-
legations that Pope Paul VI
favors internationalization of Jeru-
salem.
Msgr. Oesterreicher — who was
born Jewish and speaks Hebrew
but considers himself both a Jew
and a Christian—noted in a state-
ment that "When one knows that
his (Paul's) comments were elicit-
ed by an alarmist letter from three
Jordanian bishops who envisioned
an Israeli plot to oust Christian
Arabs from the. city and impede
free access to the shrines, then
the Pope's words_ appear rather
low-keyed."
He added that "It would be in-
sulting his intelligence to assume
that he favors a Jerusalem govern-
ed, or supervised, by a body in
which Messrs. Mao and Brezhnev
will have vote and veto."
What Pope Paul spoke of in St.
Peter's Square on March 14, said
Msgr. Oesterreicher, was "the
recognition of the extraordinary
requirements of the Holy Places"
and "pluralism of historic and
religious rights."
The three Jordanian bishops
the monsignor referred to had
written to Pope Paul earlier this
year to stress that Jerusalem
had been "traditionally united
with Jordan," that the construc-
tion in Judea would turn the
Old City into a "suffocating
Delightful Yarns About Notables
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1971, JTA, Inc.)
Asked by a reporter of Haaretz,
the Israeli daily, about his recep-
tion at the White House, President
Shazar of Israel said it was far
more than he expected. He was
received with full military honors.
He said Ambassador Rabin had
told him that usually heads of the
smaller states are not given such
a full complement of honors. When
he saw the military parade, he
said, it reminded him of an inci-
dent of long ago.
His father, Shazar said, was in
the lumber business. One year,
there was a terrible crisis and
there was actually no money for
food. His mother, a devout woman,
prayed for Divine help. One morn-
ing, two friends arrived with a
gleeful look and said they had a
gift for her. They gave her a pack-
age and left.
Maybe this is the answer to my
prayer, said the mother. When she
opened the package, there were
two Sabbath candlesticks:
Her heart sank. Is this the an-
swer from God that I expected?
She began to weep.
Young Shazar comforted her.
Perhaps, he told his mother, this
is God's way of telling you He has
heard your prayers and the big
help will soon be on its way.
"When I saw the military parade
in my honor at the White House,
I thought of the candlesticks and I
said to myself, maybe this is a
token of the big help to Israel to
come later," he said.
* * *
What's a Good Time?
An Englishman, Frenchman and
Russian Jew were asked what was
the most happy time they could
imagine.
The Englishman said that en-
joyment for him was at its peak
when he has his gun and his
hounds and can go hunting. There
was nothing like hunting to stir
the blood. The Frenchman said as
for him, hunting was a bore. His
idea of a wonderful time was a
weekend with a beautiful woman.
The Russian Jew said his idea was
a little different from the two pre-
vious. For him, the moment of
bliss was something like this. It
is midnight. There is a knocking
on the door and you hear a voice
calling. "Open up. This is the po-
lice. We have come to arrest you,
MA. in Jewish Studies
Scheduled in Baltimore
BALTIMORE (JTA)—The Balti-
more Hebrew College will offer,
starting next September, a night
study graduate program leading
to the degree of Master of Arts
in Jewish Studies. Rabbi Leivy
Smolar, college "head, said the new
program was developed to provide
men and women, who have re-
ceived a bachelors degree or its
equivalent, with the opportunity for
advanced studies in the field.
Alexis Maranovich. And I say,
`A 1 e x i s Maranovich lives next
door!'
* * *
New Judge
Murray Gurfein, whose appoint-
ment to the federal bench has
just been announced, was for a
number of years president of Hias
and also active in work for Israel.
He is a brother-in-law of Rabbi
Gershon Hadas of Kansas City and
of the late Moses Hadas, professor
of Greek at Columbia.
Eisenhower once advised Gur-
fein to quit smoking. "You know,"
he said, "when I first stopped
smoking at doctors' orders, every
time I saw a man smoking, I would
say to myself, how lucky that fel-
low is. But later when I saw a
man smoking, I would say to my-
self, what a damn fool he is."
That's the way it is. It's all in
the point of view, whether one is
lucky or just a damn fool. Some-
times you get the two in combina-
tion.
* * *
A Wise Rabbi
A good rabbi knows how to an-
swer questions.
Some American tourists in Jeru-
salem visited the Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Nissim, who expressed his
great pleasure at seeing them. But
then he told them they should
change their status, from tourists
to settlers in Israel.
But the Americans replied Israel
would be worse off if they settled
there. American Jews, they said,
send a great deal of money to Is-
rael. If they settled in Israel, this
income would stop.
It was a hard question, but
Rabbi Nissim was not stumped.
"Come and settle here," he said
smilingly, "and send your money
to America."
ghetto," and that. a "Hebrew
belt" of new settlements for re-
fugees would subject Christians
and Muslims "to a control and
to discrimination."
The bishops, said Msgr. Oester-
reicher, were engaging in "a gross
manipulation of the 'problem of
Jerusalem,' " and were not only
"alarmists" but were "pretend(ing)
to sound the alarm in the name
of Jesus."
Msgr. Oesterreicher elaborated:
"Jordan . . . must have been
created on the drawing board. But
there can be no doubt that the
territory east of the River Jordan,
largely desert, was carved out of
Palestine and given to Emir Abdul-
lah, the son of the Sherif of Mec-
ca, in 1922, as a token of grati-
tude for his family's support of
Great Britain and as compensation
for his brother Feisal's loss of the
throne of Syria."
Continuing, Msgr. 0 e s t e r-
reicher stated: "For years,
Transjordan was, though not in
name, a British colony . . . Jor-
dan would still be in possession
of the Old City had it not joined
the Six-Day War against the
warning of Israel . . . If the
brief possession of the Old Qty
by Jordan-1949-1967—can be
called a tradition, then the sta-
tioning of the Soviet army of
occupation in Czechoslovakia is
a tradition as well, and Tibet
can be called a traditional part
of Red China."
Msgr. Oesterreicher also critic-
ized L'Osservatore Romano, the
Vatican newspaper, for deploring,
among other things, the "occupa-
tion of the 'Arab sector' " of Jeru-
salem by Israel. "These tears are
synthetic because of what was left
unsaid," he commented, noting
that "Israel wrested the Old City
from Jordan, but only after the
latter had attacked."
Regarding Israeli construction
in Jerusalem, the monsignor ob-
served: "Why the housing of Jews
who have been poor and deprived
should radically change Jeru-
salem's spiritual character is not
clear to me. I would have thought
that sheltering the homeless was
a work of compassion . . . Chris-
tians who have not yet understood
the signs of the time, and thus the.
meaning of Israel's rejuvenation,
will have to reconcile -themselves
to the fact that Jerusalem is a
Jewish city, in origin, destiny and
significance."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, May 14, 1971
ADL Assembly Scheduled in Israel May 23 -June 4
and Reuben Barkatt, speaker of
the Knesset.
Assembly sessions will take
place in various parts of Israel.
The delegates also will visit kibut-
zim, tour the Golan Heights an
meet with paratroopers in a mili-
tary camp in the South.
NEW YORK—A special assem-
bly in Israel of leaders of the Jew-
ish community from all sections
of .the U.S. is being convened May
23-June 4 by the Society of Fel-
lows, a leadership organization of
the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation
League Appeal.
Participants in the assembly,
led by Seymour Graubard, nation-
al chairman, and Benjamin R.
Epstein, national director, of the
ADL, are scheduled for dinners,
conferences and briefing sessions
with Israel's top officials, includ-
ing Prime Minister Golda Meir,
Foreign Minister Abba Eban,
Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek
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