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I - • THE JEWISH NEWS E A Weekly Review tx:x 4 356 - 8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c • Deir Yassin an Excuse for Threats to American Jews: Terrorists Emerge in U. S. Commentary Page 2 October 13, 1972 Sisco's Rogers Plan 'Revival' Raises Serious Israel Concern Goren, Nissim Seen Certain Victors for Chief Rabbinate JERUSALEM (JTA)—The chief rabbinate election to be held Sunday was shaping up as a bitter contest in which die-hard con- servatives will be opposed by candidates considered relatively liberal within the Orthodox religious spectrum. The 150-man electoral college that will vote for the candidates for Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis and for members of the Chief Rabbinate Council, was finally completed after weeks of haggling. De. Zerach Warhaftig, the minister for religious affairs, an- nounced the appointment of the 10 rabbis which, according to Israeli law, are the appointees of the religious ministry, subject to cabinet approval. Of the 10 rabbis appointed by Dr. Warhaftig, seven are said to be confirmed supporters of Tel Aviv's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, regarded as a moderate. None are committed to the incumbent Ash- kenazic Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, who has the support of conservative elements. But of 24 rabbis named by an electoral assembly of their col- leagues from small townships, 12 are for Rabbi Unterman, eight for Rabbi Goren and four are uncommitted. The election picture was complicated when Tel Aviv's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef announced his candidacy in oppostion to the incumbent Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim, who was hitherto unchallenged. Rabbi Yosef, like Rabbi Goren, is regarded as one of Israel's more "enlightened" rabbis. His enlightenment is measured by his recent ruling that slacks tailored for women are more permissable than mini-skirts according to lialakha, religious law. Most other rabbis solidly oppose women wearing pants. The rabbinate electoral college consists of 70 rabbis and religious lay leaders, 70 mayors, heads of district councils and local religious councils and the 10 rabbis named by the government. The Unterman camp was reportedly unhappy over Dr. War- haftig's appointments, which it considers stacked in favor of Rabbi Goren, whose candidacy is supported by the Labor Party and the National Religious Party. Some Unterman supporters have called for a rabbinical boycott of the elections on grounds that the electoral college was rigged by the government. Election of the candidates supported by Premier Meir's govern- ment probably would avert a threatened conflict between the religious establishment and the state. After nominations closed, Rabbi Goren had 104 signatures of electoral college members, and Unterman had 31. Rabbi Nissim had 98 signatures and Yosef had 40. Twenty-five signatures were the minimum required. The show of strength by Rabbis Goren and Nissim seemed to assure their victories. In the last elections in 1964, Rabbi Unterman heat Rabbi Goren by three votes. JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Joseph J. Sisco offered a vigorous defense of the controversial Rogers Plan on a television interview here Mon- day night. Sisco's remarks indicated that the plan first unveiled by Secretary of State William P. Rogers in December 1969, and immediately opposed by Israel, has not been effectively shelved, as many Israelis had hoped. Sisco stressed what he said were the three basic points of the plan that he said tended to he forgotten. These are the need to negotiate an arrangement for Sharm el-Sheikh. demilitarization of the Sinai and an agreement on the future of the Gaza Strip. The Rogers plan called for a Middle East settlement based on only minor boundary adjustments— in effect Israel's evacuation from virtually all of the Arab territories it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War—and cast doubt on Israel's claims to East Jerusalem. Israel labeled the plan unacceptable and since its enuniation it has been the most serious point of difference in U.S.-Israli relations. Though the Rogers plan has never been officially renounced by the U.S., it has barely been mentioned in recent months by administration leaders in Washington in statements on the Mid-East. Secretary Rogers did not refer to it in his address to the UN General Assembly last month. Sisco stressed that on the three issues the U.S. made no "substantive judgment." They are to be negotiated, he said. The American diplomat intimated, however, that talk of an over-all settle- ment was not practical at present because of the wide gulf between Israel and Egypt. lie said the U.S. regards an interim settlement for reopening the Suez Canal to be the only feasible step at this time. Sisco said there were no signs at present that Egypt was willing to enter into proximity talks with Israel. (Supporters for Sen. George McGovern for President have been warning that the Rogers plan would he revived in the event of Presi- dent Nixon's re-election). ADL Hits Yule Stamp `Art Object Gimmick' NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League again has decided to withhold its stamp of approval from the Postal Service's annual Christ- mas offering. Paul Hartman, director of the ADL's law de- partment, told the Jewish. Telegraphic Agency that the Postal Service has in recent years been side- stepping the church-vs.-state problem through the "gimmick" of reproducing "art objects" instead of outright religious symbols on its Christmas stamps. There are two such issue this year, to go on sale Nov. 10. One depicts Santa Claus under the words "'Twas the Night Before Christmas:" the other shows a detail of a painting and the words "Christmas" and "Master of St. Lucy Legend Na- tional Gallery of Art." Both are 8-cent stamps that will be sold "only to persons who specifically request them," according to the Postal Service, which adds that if this policy results in light sales they "may be placed on general sale, withholding other 8-cent denomination sheet postage unless specifically requested." The ADL and other Jewish organizations have complained to the postmaster general in the past about the issuance of stamps with religious themes. Hartman said, but have "never been successful" because of the "art object gimmick." Hartman said the Jewish groups were again "considering" this year what action, if any, to take. Sisco said the Jarring memorandum of Feb. 8. 1971, was still the bone of contention. The aide-memoire by Gunnar V Jarring, the Unit- ed Nations mediator in the Middle East. asked Egypt to make a commitment to peace and asked Israel to commit itself in advance to withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories Israel rejected the memo. Sisco described an agreement between Is- rael and Egypt as the key to a Mid East peace settlement and said such an agreement would have to take priority over an arrangement between Israel and Jordan. He said the Pales- tinians would have to be taken into account in a final settlement and expressed the view that the majority of Palestinians did not side with the Black September, the terrorist group responsible for the•Munich outrage last month. Sisco stressed that no major power was capable of enforcing a solution on Israel and the Arab states "today." Ile said "Each state must assume commitments toward the other and not to a third party." office in Washington declined Toes- day to comment on the interview. An aide said that Sisco had not seen the televised in- terview and was awaiting the tapes lie said there might be a comment after the transcrip- tion is studied. Posthumous Kaddish for Heinrich Heine on 175th Birth Date Scholars from many lands will gather in Dusseldorf, Germany, next week, for a Heinrich Heine Congress, to commem- orate the 175th anniversary of the birth of the great German-Jewish poet and satirist in the city of his birth On the day of issue a special Heinrich Heine stamp. In Jewish circles, Heine's peni- his birth, Dec. 13, the West German government will tential role will serve to approve the feelings now extant that he be given status in Jewish history as a Jew who retained his Jewish loyalties with emphasis on self-revulsion at having become an apostate. Many Jewish intellectuals now therefore advocate his being granted a posthumous Kaddish. A (An account of Heinrich Heine's role as Jew and poet in Commentary, Page 21