r L ""4111•11111.11111,11.1111111minipinnipiiiiinionommanwiniir 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 t4it Speculations, versus Justice and Decline of Realism of Jewish Events Editorial Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Page 2 ' LX I I I. No. 15 Peace and Their Involvement•, 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c 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)