Vatican Dismayed at Reaction to French Document on Jews (Continued from Page 1) The Vatican so far has re- frained from commenting publicly on the declaration. Vatican Press Secretary Fed- erico Allessandrini said in re- sponse to questions that he had nothing to add to repeat- ed pronouncements by the Pope on the Arab-Israeli con- flict. Pope Paul again called for peace in the Middle East in his Easter message last Sunday. Allessandrini r e .m a rked, however, that the Church's position on Judaism "has been defined by Vatican II," a possible implication that the French bishops' declara- tion was gratuitous. The French Catholic docu- ment on Christian-Jewish re- lations was praised by Dr. Gerhart Riegner of Geneva, secretary - general of the World Jewish Congress, as going beyond the 1965 Vati- can II statement on. Jews. Dr. Riegner stated that the French Episcopate declara- tion for the first time rejects the still remaining anti-Semi- tic teachings of the Church. He said the document, tit- led "Pastoral Orientations on the Attitude of Christians To- ward Judaism," issued April 16 on the eve of Passover, "should become a milestone in Catholic-Jewish relations and serve as a model guide- line for similar pronounce- ments by national episco- pates." The French statement, ac- cording to Dr. Riegner, "does not limit itself, as Vatican II did, to exposing the spiritual links between Christianity and Judaism and their his- torical sources, but accepts the Jewish community as a living reality from whose spiritual message Christians still today can benefit." Quiz Answers Answers to Quiz, Page 5 1. Close to 18 per cent of Israeli Jews live on the soil. 2. Close to 57 per cent of the Israeli Arabs live in rural areas. 3. El Al is Israel's national airline. The words mean "toward and upward." 4. The industrial complex between Haifa and Acre is known as "Steel City" be- cause of its multiplicity of in- dustries. 5. On Yom HaAtzmaut (In- dependence Day) the finals of Hidon Hatanakh (Interna- tional Bible Contest) takes place. 6. Bezalel. 7. At Mikveh Israel. 8. Har Habayit (Temple Mount), the location of the Holy of Holies in ancient times. 9. T (Torah), Five Books of Moses; N (Neviim or Prophets) and KH (Ketubim — Holy Writings) are the initials for the 24 books of the bible. 10. Israel has sent teams of experts to assist a number of underdeveloped Afro-Asian countries. Dr. Riegner, who brought together current ongoing working communications with the Vatican and the World Council of Churches through the International Jewish Com- mittee in Inter-religious Con- sultations, viewed the French document as dramatizing "considerable progress in ef- forts we have made in deal- ing on the highest level with these major Christian church bodies." The international Jewish committee consists of the World Jewish Congress, Syna- gogue Council of America, American Jewish Committee, Bnai Brith, and the Israel Jewish Council for Interreli- gious Contacts. Dr. Riegner has been in the United States on a three-week speaking tour, briefing Jew- ish leaders in various cities on a wide range of World Jewish Congress activities. Earlier, the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Francois Marty, told newsmen that the new French Catholic Chitral document on revising atti- tudes toward Judaism was a religious and not a political statement. "This document does not take a position in the Middle East conflict," Archbishop Marty said at a news confer- ence after the episcopate is- sued the two-year study. Israel May See PLO at Bologna M. E. Peace Parley "This religious statement was issued during the Jewish Passover holiday and is founded entirely on religious grounds," Archbishop Marty said. "We must recognize that Jews have suffered in the past. They are men who must be given our respect. A Jew is a man. An Arab is a man. The Palestinians have the right to life and territory too." Not all Catholics in France agreed with the episcopate document. Georges Montaron, director of the review, Tem- oignage Chretien (Christian Observer), said that "since French bishops are behind events and since they do not know what is news, they will not be listened to as they had hoped because of the situa- tion around them." The World Conference of Christians for Palestine, of which Montaron is also a lea- der, issued a negative re- sponse to the church study. `rhis_document,-- written by a limited group, without con- sulting Arabs and Moslems who are directly concerned by the problem of the Prom- ised Land, cannot be ap- proved, as it stands, by the whole of the French Episco- pate and by the church." The World Conference is a group of left-wing Catholics who support the Palestinians. — ROME (JTA)—Israelis and Palestinian guerrilla repre- sentatives may meet at the leftist - sponsored Bologna Conference on Peace in the Middle East scheduled for May 11-13 if El Fatah leader Yassir Arafat has his way and sends a Palestine Libera- tion Organization delegation. A three-member investiga- tory team which visited Bei- rut, Damascus and Cairo, re- •ported to a preparatory meet- ing of the conference that Arafat, the PLO head, was willing to send an ad hoc dele- gation, conference sources said. It would not be a formal PLO delegation, the sources said, since Arafat faces con- siderable opposition from within the organization to the idea of sending anyone at all. The investigatory t e a m, which arrived in Bologna from Cairo, comprised Remo Salati of Italy, Maurice Barth of France and Said Rifai of Egypt. The team reported it had been in contact with leaders from a--wide political spec- trum that included Socialists, Baathists and Communists. The preparatory meeting also received a letter an- nouncing the formation of an Israeli committee for the Bologna conference compris- ing representatives of Rakah Communists and other op- position leftist groups includ- ing Brit Hasmol, Ha'olam and Siah. 6—Friday, April 27, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS remember MOTHER'S DAY MAY 13 with a SYMBOL OF LIFE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND TREE CERTIFICATE Phone THE Why not stop in and pick up a certificate:, , JEWISH NATIONAL FUND Office is open 968-0820 from 10-2 PLANT TREES IN ISRAEL in her name "Daughter of the Kibutz," a play written by Mordehai Bernstein in 1937, was trans- lated into Korean and has been the hit of the theater season in Seoul. 22100 GREENFIELD RD. OAK PARK, MICH. 48237 HIM Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Marked 30 Years Later (Continued from Page 1) uprising. The two-hour concert of the National Philharmonic took place on the eve of the anni- versary of the day in 1943 when Nazi troops moved into the walled ghetto with orders to destroy it and the 65,000 people living inside. For almost three weeks Jewish fighters held off the Germans using a variety of weapons, many of them homemade. By May 8 the resistance had been crushed and the ghetto cleared. The anniversary of the up- rising will be observed by Radio Liberty in its broad- casts to the Soviet Union. Special programs in Rus- sian and Yiddish will de- scribe the heroic resistance of the Warsaw Jews, accord- ing to Dr. Gene Sosin, direc- tor of broadcast planning. In one broadcast, Mrs. Vladka Meed, vice-president of the Workmen's Circle and assistant director of the Jew- ish Labor Committee in New York, describes in Yiddish her recollections of life inside the ghetto during the uprising as well as her role as a cour- ier in obtaining weapons from the outside. named Warsaw Ghetto Square for the occasion. Sev- eral thousand persons repre- senting more than 50 national and metropolitan Jewish or- ganizations will attend an outdoor rally there Sunday to pay tribute to the memory of the Six Million. Look Like The Wrong Direction We'd Better Go See GEORGE BRANT AT Superior Oldsmobile 342-7000 * DYNA MIC Tire Sales & Car Care Center: Distributors for • • • • DUNLOP • MICHELIN and other Steel Radials • Mufflers • Brakes • Shocks • Alignments "EXCELLENT SERVICE & COMPETITIVE PRICES" • ♦ ♦ SAFE & DEPENDABLE —"Dunlop Quality Costs No More" JOE STAMELL'S Gov. Nelson A. 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