Anti - srael Sermons in Washintrton. D.C.
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affairs chief, added that in Janu- his charge mainly on the views et
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a If (irt w University professor.
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg of Beth ary 1970 Dean Sayre organized a
Israel Shahak. who the dean said
Sholom Synagogue. the largest national prayer meeting at his
had described Israers annexation
orthodox congregation in Washing- cathedral in behalf of the Pales-
of East Jerusalem in 1967 is "an
ton, denounced Dean Sayre's re- tinians. - All the pro-Arahists that
- Foxman said . immoral and unjust act
marks as "so vile, so . false, and exist were there.
(A spokesman for the Ameri-
Rev. Sayre said he was basing
I am sorry to say, so anti-Zionist
can Friends of the Hebrew E ni-
that one shudders at, the thought
ersity in N N 'York • said Dr.
of it. Talk of ecumenism has been Legislator Demands
in or
Shahak was a lecturer
dealt a critical blow::
ganic chemists. at the university
The United Zionists-Revisionists Probe of Post Office
and was horn in t'larsati. Ile
of America accused Dean Sayre of
said he had no information as to
-misrepresentation. - A statement Destruction of Matze
whether the scholar was a dis-
issued by its director of public af-
Rep
—
wAsiiING-rox (JTA)
sident in Israel.)
fairs, Prof. Marnin Feinstein, dc- Joshua Eilberg ID. Pa.) has called
Dean Sayre quoted Shahak as
stared that the Arabs of East Jeru- for an investigation of the destruc-
declaring in the current issue of
salem enjoyed a higher, standard tion by the U.S. Post Office of Christianity and Crisis, a join nal
of living since the Six:Day War some 8,000 pounds of matzo which
of Christian religious and social
and that Arabs. Christians and
had been sent to the Soviet Em- opinion, that until the "non-Jews"
Jews had access to their shrines. bassy for Jews in the Soviet Union of Jerusalem are given "freedom."
Feinstein added: "One might re- and refused by the embassy.
the present situation "of one coin-,
mind the dean that the holy sites
Rep. Eilberg made his request ; munity oppressing the other will
are no longer used as latrines as to Rep. Robert N. C. Nix (D. Pa.),
poison us all—and us Jews first
was the case during Arab occupa- chairman of the postal facilities
o f "
t'on."
and mail subcommittee of the
Dean Sayre said in his sermon
Arnold Forster. general counsel House Post Office and Civil Ser- that contemporary events in Jeru-
to the Anti-Defamation League of vice Committee.
salem were only one of many ex-
Bnai Brith, said he was "dismayed
Nix agreed to the request and amples of "the moral tragedy of
but not surprised by the inaccu- said a public hearing would be
mankind." lie added: "What a
rate and unfair statements - about held as soon as possible following
mirror then is modern Israel of
Israel by Rev. Sayre:
the current recess which ends
that fatal flaw in the human breast
Forster,
noting
that
Dean
"
April 10.
that forever leaps to the acclaim
Sayre has been "partial to the
When the matzot were refused
of God, only to turn the next in-
Arab side" for many years, de-
by the Soviet Embassy it was stant to the suborning of His will
clared: "His false assertion that
stored for several days in the
for us."
Israelis are `oppressing' in Jeru-
He said - many people had
basement of the main Post Office
salem and that Jewish rule of
cheered when the Jews in 1967
and subsequently was destroyed.
the city is a.`moral tragedy' is
Postal authorities declined to "surged across the open scar"
as far from the conciliatory spirit
describe the nature of the disposi- dividing new Jerusalem from Jor-
of this holy season as it is from
tion of the matzot but said that clan-held old Jerusalem "but now
the facts." He remarked that
the Postal Service authorized it. oppressed become oppressors. •
"Knowing the dean's general
Robert C. Kohler, director of the He charged that Arab residents
attitudes about the Middle East
New Jersey regional office of the of Jerusalem were deported or
explains why no ringing sermons
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai "deprived unjustly" of their land
of protest were heard from him
Brith, which sponsored the matzo and forbidden to bring their rela-
during Jordan's 19-year illegal
campaign to help draw attention tives to settle in Jerusalem. He
occupation of the Old City."
'to the plight of Soviet Jews, said asserted that Arabs "have neither
Abe Foxman, ADL's Mid East that, groups in New Jersey, Penn- voice nor happiness III the city'

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Dean Sayre's comments were
000 pounds of matzo.
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