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The Detroit Jewish News, 1973-06-22

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Supreme Court issued an order against Defense Minister •Moshe Dayan, giving him 30 days to show cause
why he should not evacuate a building which a Hebron resident claims belongs to him and which, he says, was illegally taken over by the
military governor of Judea and Samaria.
leased by the
The appellant, Hassan Abu Zeina, said in his petition that he is trustee for an estate which includes A building once
Intra Bank of Beirut. The bank collapsed before the Six-Day War.
After the war, the Israeli commissioner of banks bought up the assets of all banks in Judea and Samaria, ins liding those of Mir Rank.
the appellant had rented to thy, t, a to It: a lthorngh if was not
The military governor and the commissioner then seized the building which
part of the bank's assets, A-bu Zeina asserted.
.4 whith was
In 1971, the Israeli authorities paid him 1,000 Jordanian dinars and had him sign some papers in Hebrew, the:
unclear to him, he declared. Since then, the authorities have refused his demands for the building, he said.

Israel. Supreme
Court Rules in
Favor of Arab
Against Dayan

'The Psalms'
in Revised
Translation: •
1916 and 1973
J PS Texts
Contrasted
Commentary

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

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Speculations,
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June 22, 1973

Jackson - Rejects Brezhnev's Claims;
Presses Action to End Restrictions

RaymondEpstein
Named President
of Federations



CHICAGO—Raymond Epstein,
prominent Chicago business and
communal leader, has been
elected president of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Wel-
fare Funds at the national orga-
nization's quarterly board of
directors meeting at the Palmer
House here Saturday evening.
Epstein, a CJF vice president
succeeds Irving Blum of Balti-
more, who resigned the presi-
dency because of ill health.
The first Chicagoan to serve
as CJF president, Epstein will
head the national body of more
than 235 Jewish federations,
welfare funds and community
councils in the U.S. and Canada
associated with CJF, including
Jewish Welfare Federation
Detroit. The. CJF aids these
central organizations — which
serve more than 800 Jewish
communities throughout North
America—to plan and finance a
worldwide network of health,
welfare, cultural, educational,
community relations and other
programs benefiting people in
local communities, nationally
and overseas.
He is chairman of the CJF
overseas services committee, a
vice president of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, a board
member of the United Jewish
Appeal, on the executive com-
mittee of the United Jewish
Appeal, and is a member of
the board of governors of the
Jewish Agency for Israel.
Currently he is general chair-
man of the 1973 campaign of
the Jewish Fund of Metropoli-
tan Chicago. He recently com-
pleted three years of service as
president of the Jewish Welfare
Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.

Parent-Supported
Candidates Win
9 Places at UHS

A battle by parents to win a voice in
policy making at the United Hebrew
Schools resulted Tuesday evening in the
election of five petition candidates to the
board of directors. Four others, sup-
ported by the parents but co-opted by the
board nominating committee, also were
elected.
It was a nomination and election un-
precedented in the history of Detroit's
communal system, and the length of the
meeting—some four hours—bore witness
to its uniqueness. About 200 parents, lay
leaders, administrators and teachers at-
tended the meeting at the United Hebrew
Schools T,aMed Auditorium.
Petition candidates who were elected
are Rena Bardenstein, Morris Breuer,
Shirley Garber, G. Vernon Leopold and
Harold Strom. The four other elected
nominees supported by the Hebrew
School Parents Advisory Committee were
Dr. Albert Kaner, Dr. Gerald Loomus,
Melvin Seidman and Albert Zack.
None of the new board nominees pro-
posed by the UHS nominating committee
was elected, and one member of the
present UHS board, Dulcie Rosenfeld,
was defeated for re-election.
(Continued on Page 5)

Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington was emphatic, Wednesday, in his
rejection of Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev's toning down of
charges that his country was not discriminating against Jews.
Brezhnev reportedly made a "good impression" on members of both houses
of Congress with whom he met Tuesday, but Jackson said he will continue to press
for action on the amendment to deny favored-nation treatment to the USSR under
existing conditions until the restrictions now being enforced are removed.
Jackson was emphatic in his declaration, refuting possible claims that Russian
internal affairs are not to be interfered with by foreigners, that "freedom is every-
claim of an advantage to
one's business." He declared, counteracting the additional
this country in doing business with Russia, that "freedom is more important than
the buck."
He emphasized that Hitler, in the 1930s, also claimed immunity from criti-
cisms on the ground that no one had a right to interfere in his internal affairs, and
Jackson reminded interviewers of the consequences of silence during the early
years of the Nazi regime.
Demonstrations against Russian restrictions on the USSR Jewish citizens and
demands for justice in the Soviet Union continue throughout the land.
Arnold Michlin announced in behalf of the Detroit Action Committee that a
helicopter will cruise over the entire Greater Detroit area for two hours Friday,
flashing a Magen David and the demand: "Mr. Brezhnev, Release Soviet Jewry."
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Soviet Communist Party Secretary General Leonid
I. Brezhnev on Tuesday afternoon devoted a large part of his meeting with key mem-
bers of the U.S. Congress to the Jewish question. He recited at length figures on
Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to .the 23 key lawmakers whom he enter-
tained at lunch at Blair House.
Brezhnev apparently regarded his meeting with the American legislators, some
of whom vehemently support the Jackson Amendment, as sufficiently important to
keep President Nixon waiting for 90 minutes at the White House for their second
round of talks.
Lawmakers emerging from the meeting appeared impressed with the Soviet
leader's presentation. While those supporting the Jackson Amendment made it clear

Film Version of 'Jesus Superstar' Branded
Anti-Semitic; Israeli Actors' Roles Deplored

American Jewish Committee researchers, upon viewing the film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar,"
produced for Universal Pictures by Norman Jewison, charged that "it picks up and dramatizes many of
the anti-Jewish notions traditionally associated with the Passion story."
A thorough analysis of the new film which will be released throughout the country in July and
August was conducted by representatives of other Jewish media. A lengthy resume of the film's effects
by a Presbyterian scholar, Gerald S. Strober, released by the AJCommittee, accuses it of anti-Semitism
and warns of its ill effects on Christian-Jewish relations.
In an accompanying statement, Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of the AJCommittee's inter-
expresses added concern over the film's having received "G" rating, "which means that
religious affairs,
impressionable
Christian children of Sunday school age will be exposed, in most compelling
masses of
fashion, to an anti-Jewish presentation of the gospel story without the guidance of an accompanying
parent." Rabbi Tanenbaum states that "a probable cause of added confusion is that because of his name,
the producer, Norman Jewison, may be erroneously taken to be Jewish, which would give the film a
seeming aura of being acceptable to Jews." (Jewison produced "Fiddler on the Roof.")
Another unfortunate fact indicated in Rabbi Tanenbaum's statement is the film's having been shot
in Israel. Dr. Tanenbaum declared:
"The producers make much of the fact that the film was shot in Israel—a circumstance we find
unfortunate. The association with Israel could easily serve as a pretext to undercut the efforts of Jewish
g,roups in opposing this and any other Passion spectacle containing anti-Jewish elements. If some Israelis
saw nothing reprehensible in the film, and helped make it, this means only that much remains to be done
to sensitize Israelis to the meaning of Jewish history in the Christian world."
Strober's views of the new film Nersion of the play, presented as a Christian's viewpoint, declares:
"The first half or so of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' unambiguously lays the primary responsibility for
Jesus' suffering to the Jewish priesthood. Its members are portrayed as satanically evil: contemptuous,
callous, sadistic and bloodthirsty. There is no warrant in the New Testament either for this attribution of
primary
primary guilt or for the caricatured depiction."
Strober quotes at length from New Testament evidence to expose the anti-Semitic aspects of the
new film version, and he declares in reference to some of the allegations that "there is no antecedent
. . . for the utterances in the gospels."
In his expose of the film's manner of interpreting the gospels and the Jewish "guilt" S trober states:
(Continued on Page 26)

(Continued on Page 48)

Dori Kashkosh
Has Left Iraq

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Dori Kash-
kosh, whose family was mur-
dered by Iraqi secret police
April 12, has left Iraq.
The girl was e s c o r t e d to
Baghdad airport, handed her
passport by Iraqi authorities
and placed aboard a plane, re-
liable sources said.
No indication was given of her
destination, but she is reportedly
now safe with relatives outside
of Iraq.
The release of the girl was at-
tributed to international protests
and pressure on Iraqi author-
ities. Until now the authorities
had sought to keep her in Iraq
to force her to relinquish all
rights to her family's property,
sources reported.
Miss Kashkosh was attending
y
classes at Baghdad
when secret police broke into
a
her family's e home and machine-
gunned her paren ts, siste r and
two brothers. . Only her a
saved her life.
After the slayings she took
(Continued on Page 5)

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