15th Century Scrolls
Turn Up Under Floor
Churhmen's Double Stoddard on Jerusalem Assailed
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LONDON
Some 20 Torah
scrolls, hidden during the Nazi
occupation of Czechoslovakia be-
neath the- floor boards' of a 15th
Century synagogue were dis
' cov-
ered recently during restoration
work at the building. The old
Lichtenstadt synagogue near Karts-
bad now houses the offices of the
:local National Committee.
The scrolls were hidden in 1939,
shortly before the synagogue was
burned down by.the Nazis, accord-
ing to Volkszeitung; the German-
language weekly in Czechoslovakia.
Lichtenstadt had a substantial
Jewish population until 19th Cen-
tury restrictions on Jews, to take
residence in Karisbad" and other
major cities of Bohemia, were
lifted-
The scrolls have been given to
the Council of Jewish Religious
Communities in Czechoslovakia,
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Jewish lay
and rabbinical leaders from all
over America, meeting in an all-
day- emergency session at the New
York Hilton Hotel sharply assailed
the "blatant double standard" be-
ing applied to the -question of
Jerusalem by important segments
of church leadership, and called
for an urgent meeting with Citho-
lic, Protestant and Moslem leaders
in order to avoid a "rift" in inter-
religious relations. -
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Prague Synagogue
Near Ruin; to Get
Full Restoration
LONDON—For the last 10 years,
damp rot has been affecting the
700-year-old Flakes synagogue of
Prague, the - oldest synagogue in
Europe as well as home of a me-
Mithigan State, with more than morial to the 77,200 Jewish victims
40,000 students, is the largest mi.- of Nazism from Bohemia and Mo-
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According to Dr.' Vilem Benda,
director of the state-controlled
Jewish Museuni in Prague, "the
foundations of the synagogue were
below the level of the Vltava Riv-
er" when it was transformed into
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a memorial shrine in the '50s. By
1962, floor boards and walls of
Monday and Tuesday
the memorial shrine showed signs
of dampness from undercurrent
Oct. 4, 5 & 11 , 12
water and surface moisture, "with
inscriptions on the memorial
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ernment reserves, said Benda.
Still, no explanation is offered
for why it- took 10 years to get
this agreement-
Plans call for the inscriptions on
the memorial to be restored, and a
type of air-duct installed to secure
continuous circulation of dry air-
within and around the synagogue.
Dr. Benda said -excavation work
shows that the Pinkas synagogue,
rebuilt in its present form in 1535,
may date back to the 12th Century,
and not the 13th, as had been as-
sumed.
Excavation work below founda
tion level, it is claimed, has un-
covered traces of a mikva and
three wells of a depth of nine
meters "dating hack to the Middle
Ages."
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of Gov. Rockefeller to quell the
four-day prison rebellion. _
Rabbi Block said Judaism "re-
jects" the "heathenish approach"
of the American penal structure.
He criticized the action of prison
authorities in identifying the dead
'prisoners only by number "and
rejecting their families' pleas for
information."
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Ir-
ving J. Block of the Brotherhood
Synagogue here, declared in a
Rcish Hisbana sermon that Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller, State Correc-
tion Commissioner Russell Oswald
and other officials of New York
State "should don sack cloth and
ashes and lead the citizens of New
York in expressing deepest feel-
ings of remorse and repentance"
over "the tragedy that has fallen
upon the families of hostages and
prisoners at Attica."
Rabbi Block urged "a revision
of the penal system of America
which has resulted in the carnage
in the Attica prison."
At that time, on Sept. 13, 10 hos-
tages and 30 prisoners were killed,
apparently all by gunfire, from
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The conference was called by
the Synagogue Council of America
because of the sudden upsurge
of activities against continued
Israeli control of the Holy City,
culminating in the meeting of the
Security Council called by Jordan
on the question.
Philip M. Klutznic
' k, f or m er
American representative to the
United Nations, told the confer-
ence that - "any effort made by
force or sanctions to divide Jeru-
salem once more will undoubtedly
be met by force.'
'Rabbi Henry Siegman, execu-
tive vice president of the Syna-
gogue Council, called the question
of Jerusalem a "perfect illustra-
tion of how the Christian theologi-
cal bias makes hollow any in-
sistence within Christian leader-
ship that the Middle East situa-
tion is to be assessed on strictly
political and moral grounds."
Rabbi Irving Lehrman, Miami
Beach, president of the Synagogue
Council, announced that he had
issued invitations to Protestant,
Catholic and Moslem leaders to
participate in a fraternal discus-
sion of our respective associations
with Jerusalem and expressed my
hope that this discussion "will
lead to a deeper and more respect-
ful understanding of our resepc-
tive involvements." He assailed
the "ever-increasing crescendo • of
statements among political and
religious world leaders" that be-
cause of the special character of
Jerusalem, the Israelis cannot pro-
vide for its protection and well-
being.
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