CCAR Resolution 'Strongly Disapproves
of Rabbis Officiating at Mixed Marriages

U. S. Supreme Court Strikes Down
State Aid to Nonpublic Schools

The Central Conference of American 'Rabbis, meeting in convention,
approved a resolution which "strongly disapproves" of member rabbis of-
ficiating at mixed marriages. But each rabbi will be expected to follow the
dictates of conscience, as there are no sanctions. Story Page 12.

The highest court in the land, in a blanket decision by a vote of 6-3,
has invalidated all substantial forms of state aid to nonpublic schools.
Jewish organizations leading the anti-parochiaid fight rejoiced; day school
leaders predict losses in the millions nationwide. Story Page 6.

On Accents:
'Soul and Agony'

Jackson's

Political Aura

Apologists
for Kremlin

Commentaries
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June 29, 1973

Avoidance of Confrontation
Pledged in Joint U.S.-USSR
Communique on M.E. Status

Kissinger Reveals 'Brink of War' Averted in 1970 Crisis

Brezhnev Emigration 'Facts'
Refuted by Senator Jackson,
National Jewish Authorities

Leonid Q. Hrezhnev's "facts and figures" given to the members
of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week were refuted
in statements by responsible spokesmen for Jewish groups and by
authoritative sources on the Russian situation.
Senator Henry M. Jackson was the first to dispute the figures on
Jewish emigration from Russia given to the senatorial group by
Brezhnev. Speaking on the floor of the U. S. Senate, June 20, Senator
Jackson said:
"The visiting lobbyist, with notebooks of facts and figures, with
briefing papers, charts, displays and a fistful of statistics is a part
of daily life in the nation's capital.
"At noon each day the best restaurants in Washington are filled
with lobbyists who have something to sell, and with Washington of-
ficials who come to hear them out.
"Yesterday, with all the skill of an industrial lobbyist, the general
secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union entertained a
number of senators at lunch. And with the familiar tactics that ac-
company such lunches, he offered an elaborate display of statistics
and extenuation. According to Brezhnev, emigration from the Soviet
Union is virtually -free.
"What is so curious about all this is that if Mr. Brezhnev is right
— if virtually all those Soviet citizens wishing to emigrate are in fact
free to go — then he need not fear, he need not even object to the
Jackson amendment: for all that amendment does is condition trade
concessions on free emigration. The amendment, sponsored by 77 sen-
ators and more than 280 members of the House, provides that the
extension of most-favored-nation treatment and 'U.S. government
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States and the Soviet Union expressed "deep
concern" over the continuing Middle East conflict, acknowledged that they were still far
apart on a solution but pledged to avoid a confrontation in that area.
These were the main points relating to the Middle East in the joint communique
by President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezh-
nev, released in San Clemente, Calif., Monday and in the briefing for newsmen given
immediately afterward by presidential adviser 'Henry Kissinger. Brezhnev, who ended
his nine-day American visit Monday morning, said in a television address to the American
people Sunday night that the Middle East situation is still "very acute."
The joint communique said that both superpowers "agreed to continue to exert
their efforts to promote the quickest possible settlement in the Middle East" which
"should be in accordance with the interests of all the states in the area, be consistent
with their independence and sovereignty and should take into account the legitimate
interests of the Palestinian people."
Dr. Kissinger, in his briefing, referred to the Middle East as "one of the most com-
plex areas" and said that the Arab-Israeli conflict and the "so called Great Power rivalry"
are "inextricably linked."
Kissinger stressed that neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union "agree on the evo-
lution of the Middle East conflict or how it should be resolved." He said that both sides
recognize the importance for a solution, will help to promote it and hope some progress
will be made during the year."
Kissinger said that "obviously the Middle East is part of the unfinished agenda"
of Mr. Nixon and Brezhnev and will be taken up again at their third summit meeting in
Moscow next year. "We didn't expect to finish it at this meeting," he added.
Kissinger's remarks at the Western White House were broadcast to Washington
newsmen assembled in the White House press room Monday afternoon. The presidential
adviser stressed the dangers' inherent in the continuing conflict. He said that in 1970 the
Great Powers came close to the brink of war, "closer than the world realized" when
Syrian tanks invaded Jordan at a time Jordan was battling Palestinian guerrillas. He said
the situation was so tense that "even the selection of words by White House briefers
were picked up by local (Mid East) newspapers and became part of the East-West conflict."

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NJCRAC Condemns New 'Jesus' Film as Anti-Semitic; Proselytizing
Evidences Deplored; Anti-Semitism in U.S. Viewed as on Decline

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The film version "Jesus Christ Superstar" and does not in-
of "Jesus Christ Superstar," which opened tend to make any changes in it.
Wednesday in first-run theaters across the
The spokesman, Dick Delson, who de-
nation, was denounced here by the member scribed himself as "a Jew," told the Jewish
agencies of the National Jewish Community Telegraphic Agency that neither he nor
Relations Advisory Council for reviving "re- Universal "felt concerned" over charges
ligious sources of anti-Semitism."
that the film is anti-Semitic.
(The film's anti-Semitic elements were
Albert E. Arent, of Washington, NJCRAC
exposed in an analysis published in last chairman, said that NJCRAC agencies were
week's issue of The Jewish News).
generally reluctant publicly to condemn
A statement adopted at the NJCRAC films or literature, to avoid implications of
plenary session castigated the motion pic- censorship. But a report on "Jesus Christ
ture as "worse than the stage play" in Superstar" by the council broadcasting and
dramatizing "the old falsehood of the Jews' film committee "finds the stereotyping and
collective responsibility, for the death of historical distortions outrageous," he said
Jesus."
The NJCRAC statement charged that
The statement charged that the film's the motion picture "unambiguously lays
"stereotypes are more extreme" in its dis- primary responsibility for the Passion to
tortions of Bible history, "insidious" in its Jewish priests" who are depicted as "con-
exaggeration of "some of the 'most baneful temptuous, sadistic and bloodthirsty." The
anti-Jewish notions traditionally associated statement said that the role of Judas, por-
with the Passion story."
trayed by a black actor, is "magnified far
Meanwhile, a Universal Pictures spokes- beyond historic evieence," representing him
man said that his company is satisfied with as a dupe of the Jewish priesthood in a way

that "could easily exacerbate present-day 73 by the 300 delegates representing 93
Black-Jewish relations."
community councils affiliated with NJCRAC.
The film is a "singularly damaging set-
But the NJCRAC statement criticized the
back" to Christian-Jewish relations, the "evangelical view of America as a single
statement said. It noted that the Second 'Christian nation' and deplored the seem-
Vatican Council and Protestant agencies ing support given this concept by public
have rejected the "pernicious idea" of Jew- participation of the President, governors
ish guilt for the crucifixon but "Jesus Christ and other public officials in "prayer break-
Superstar" revives it." fasts" and the use of publicly financed in-
On the question of the Christian evan- stitutions, such as state universities and
gelical Key 73 movement, the NJCRAC view high schools, "as arenas for sympathetic
was that the issue had brought many Chris- proselytizing activities."
tian leaders to the realization that they must
The effect of such proselytization has
abandon proselytizing among Jews.
been minimal, the NJCRC agencies de-
"For the first time in the history of the dared. "We do not perceive (it) as a major
Jewish-Christian relations in America," a threat to the integrity or security of the
resolution adopted at the annual plenary American Jewish community or its Juda-
session of the National Jewish Community ism."
Relations Advisory Council declared, "Chris-
The conference also condemned "un-
tian denominations have been confronted constitutional" use of electronic surveil-
with the need to come to terms with the lance and other invasions of privacy, de-
living reality of Judaism in the Jewish corn- nouncing such actions by government agen-
munity." This was viewed as one of the cies as "an alarming disregard for some
"positive consequences" flowing from Key
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