15th Century Scrolls Turn Up Under Floor Churhmen's Double Stoddard on Jerusalem Assailed . 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, , AyNE' CARNAHAN says I'm. Dealing at- 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. - , , 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- en000reLeGsa,m=r-t AT TEL-TWELVE M. NU01-41GANI 49075.354- versify in the state. - ravia. - 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 :7- We will be closed 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 For Sukkot tablets changing and to some ex- 21780 W. 11 MILE, SOUTHFIELD tent eracted." Menthes Densit _Located in the Harvard Row Mall The cultural administration of Xeshos Moat Dodoes Association the Prague National Committee "=" FREE DELIVERY • EL 6-5110-1 now has agreed to the renova- S. Mirves, J. Katz, J. Zoks, D. Krosman, Proprietors tion of the memorial, saying II!gllli !tit I I Ott , ; U 111,1 ;1 ; t costs will be covered from gov- 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." ► RVARD ROW . _KOSHER MEATS & POULTRY, - INC. . , Rabbi Hits Penal System, Rocky, for Attica Tragedy Come Help Your Harvard Row Merchants Celebrate YOUR FRIENDLY HARVARD ROW MERCHANTS, si zewb .krewal &Awry legyery M femme* -Nome OK'd Co. - • state troopers sent in on orders 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." Ag."e' HIS Sa+e 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 - People seldom read a book which is given to them. The new way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. —Samuel Johnson 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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