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LONDON (JTA)—A split has developed in the 102-year-old Anglo-Jewish Association over whether it should sup-
port a petition recently sent to rabbinical authorities all over the world by the International
Council of Jewish Women appeal-
ing for measures to relieve Jewish women from certain personal hardships caused by rigid interpretations of Halakha. A meet-
ing of the AJA's council. where the petition was to be discussed, was canceled without explanation last week.
It was disclosed later that both the chief rabbi and the Dalian', bead of the Sephardic community, and other Ortho-
dox members of the council, objected to a discussion. But a large body of members insists that the AJA must not dodge the
issue and should come out In support of the petitioners. The women have asked for the convening of a rabbinical assembly to
study the
problem with a view to alleviating the position of women who want to observe religious law but suffer because of
archaic
provisions.
AJA is a nonsectarian association of
Jews established to promote good citizenship and Jewish education.
Originally anti-Zionist, it is now non-Zionist but British
supports Israel.
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Paris Jewish Agency Building
Blasted; Police Guard Golda
Court Ruling Prohibits
Arabs Using ADL Name
NEW YORK—The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith has been granted a permanent injunction against
use of the phrase "Anti-Defamation League" by the so-
:- called "Arab Anti-Defamation League."
New York Supreme Court Justice George C. Mant-
zoros, who issued the injunction, also ruled that the Arab
group may not refer to itself as the "formerly Arab Anti-
Defamation League."
Hailing the court's decision, Arnold Forster, ADL's
general counsel, noted that the national human relations
agency's complaint had charged the Arab group with
seeking to exploint ADL's name by using the phrase
"Anti-Defamation League" which is a "key and distinc-
tive Identifying part of Its name." The general counsel
said that "if the Arab organization had been permitted
to use the name, the good will of ADL would have been
diluted and destroyed."
In his permanent injunction, Judge Mantzoros also
ruled the Arab group is forbidden to use the Anti-Defa-
mation League's abbreviation, ADL, "or any imitation
thereof such as AADL or any simulation thereof . . . "
The Arab group is additionally forbidden to use the
league's name or abbreviation directly or indirectly in
its fund raising and other activities.
Forster said the Arab group's attempt to use the
ADL name or abbreviation is one "in a series of at-
tempts by various people to trade upon the excellent
reputation the Anti-Defamation League has earned for
its work in combating prejudice, bigotry and discrimi-
nation and In improving intergroup relations." ADL will
celebrate its 80th anniversary this year.
Forster said that "since its founding, ADL has suc-
cessfully defended its right to the exclusive use of its
name against illegal efforts by others to misappropriate
it or a distinctive part of it and will continue to do so
whenever an attempt is made to exploit and misapprop-
riate it."
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By EDWIN EYTAN
JTA Paris Bureau Chief
PARIS (JTA)—The Jewish Agency building here was seriously damaged in a predawn bomb
explosion Tuesday. The blast shattered windows in a 60-yard radius, wrecked parked cars, twisted
iron window bars and blew out garage doors all along the block. No injuries were reported.
The 'building was empty at the time except for the night watchman, who slept in the rear
and was not hurt.
This correspondent visited the scene shortly after the explosion occurred at 5 a.m. local time.
The street resembled an area hit by an air raid. People from neighboring buildings stood in their
pajamas along the street amid debris and splintered glass.
Police investigating the blast reported they have no clues regarding the perpetrators.
Several local newspapers said they received letters purporting to come from the Black September
organization, an Arab terrorist group claiming responsibility for the bombing.
Neither the police nor Jewish Agency circles believe there is any connection between the blast
and the visit today of Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel, coming for a meeting of the Socialist
International. Nevertheless there was tight security for her visit.
The blast occurred one month after a bomb seriously wounded Mahmoud el-Hanshari,
representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Paris. Hanshari died Tuesday evening.
Jewish institutions have asked for and were immediately granted police protection following
Tuesday's bombing. The head of Paris' criminal investigation department was heading the probe.
The Black September organization Tuesday night claimed responsibility for the attack in
letters to the Paris bureaus of the British news agency Reuters and the French agency Agence France
Presse. The organization said the attack was a "warning shot" before the arrival of Mrs. Meir.
A few hours later, however, the Paris bureau of the Palestine Liberation Organization issued
a communique saying that the attack was a result of "Zionist provocation" aiming at turning public
attention away from the death of Hanshari.
Police officials in Paris were not prepared to comment on the identity of the culprits. They
said the investigation is being conducted with
the "utmost dilligence."
ShehitaDefended,Defined
Police circles were only prepared to say
that the bomb apparently contained 20 pounds
as Humane Slaughter
of explosives and that the detonator was a
NEW YORK (JTA)—The constitutionality of the 1958
highly sophisticated type. The attack, they
Humane Slaughtering Act was defended against a group
said, seems to have been carried out by
that claims the act's protection of Jewish ritual slaughter-
"highly skilled technicians."
ing methods is unconstitutional.
The Tuesday attack was the first on any
The group of eight tax-payers, the Society for Animal
Jewish organization in France. Michel Topiol,
Rights and the Committee for a Wall of Separation Be-
tween Church and State, filed suit in Federal District
Jewish Agency chairman in this country,
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Shazar Urges Support for Goren:
U.S. Sources for Hostility
_Blames
NEW YORK (JTA)—President Zalman Shazar of Israel called on a delegation
of American Zionist Federation leaders to demonstrate support for Israel's Ashkenazic
chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, and the Natoinal Religious Party which has "fallen prey
to the internal politics of Israel."
Asserting that the hostility being vented against Rabbi Goren for his recent
decision in the Langer case has its origin in the United States, the 83-year-old presi-
dent urged an "immediate aliya of five to 10 gifted American rabbinic authorities
who would lend their support to alleviate this crisis."
At a meeting with a delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish , Organizations headed by its president Jacob Stein, Shazar stressed
the plight of Jews in Syria and Iraq and urged the leadership delegation to mobilize
Meeting of Two Presidents: Israel's
President Shneour
Zalman Shazar met last Friday with President Richard M. Nixon in the Oval
Room of the White House. With them, at the 15-minute chat, was Israel's
Ambassador Itzhak Rabin (left). Also at the conference, but not shown in
the photo, was Col. Richard Kennedy of Henry Kissinger's staff.
Detailed stories and interview with Presi-
dent Shazar by Trude B. Feldman Page 40.
support within the American Jewish community to aid their brethren in Arab lands.
During his meeting with the Zionist leaders headed by AZF' President Israel
Miller, Shazar produced a copy of Rabbi Goren's decision entitled "Brother and
Sister," and noted that the lengthy responsa was in the "great tradition of the 17th
and 18th Century responsa and traces its conclusions through a study of similar
decisions of Rabbi Bacharach, an 18th Century talmudic scholar, and the Ifazon Ish
(Rabbi Isaiah ICarelitzi of the 20th Century. -
Shazar added that he would personally meet with Rabbi Joseph Soloseijchik
of Boston in the hope that he would add his prestige to the "spirit of the Houge of
-HWel" which was noted in talmudic times for its lenient halakhic decisions.
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