Youths Need Homes Israel Bids Extension
Jewish foster homes, so far of Search for Bodies
Five Black Jewish
NEW YORK (JTA)—The
Jewish Child Care Associa- without success, the Jewish
tion has been trying for more Telegraphic Agency learned.
than a year to place five
A JCCA source told the
black Jewish children in JTA that its last mailing of
1,700 letters in mid-January
to rabbis, congregations and
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel
has asked the State Depart-
ment to use its influence to
persuade Egypt to abide by
its original agreement to a
one-week extension of the
search for bodies of Israeli
soldiers missing in the area
of the former Barley Line on
the Suez Canal east bank,
now in Egyptian control.
Egyptian authorities last
week suddenly canceled that
extension which Israel had
requested when the deadline
for the body search expired
March 31. About 100 Israelis
are still listed as missing.
The appeal to the State
Department was reported to
a delegation of relatives of
the missing soldiers who met
with Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan in his office. The rela-
tives met earlier with Pre-
mier Golda Meir who told
them everything possible
would be done to make pos-
sible a continuation of the
body search. Dayan said he
had raised the issue in Wash-
ington during his talks with
Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger.
Trepper in Israel
for Pesah Holiday
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Leo-
Friday, April 12, 1974-13 pold Trepper, the one-time
master spy, arrived here
April 3. He told reporters
that he came to spend Pass-
over with his family and is
considering settling in Israel
at the end of the year.
Trepper, 70, is also seek-
ing medical treatment for a
chronic leg ailment. He told
reporters at Ben-Gurion Air-
port that he considered his
arrival in Israel something
of a miracle.
Polish authorities granted
him an exit visa last year
after a three-year struggle
on his part. .
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Catholic Writer Urges Churches
to Remove Jewish Bias From Liturgy
NEW YORK — Noting that
the Christian Holy Week was
for centuries "a period when
Christians celebrated the
passion and resurrection of
their Lord by attacking, per-
secuting and sometimes mur-
dering Jews,” a prominent
Catholic author has called
upon Christian churches to
make further changes in
their liturgies and educa-
tional materials, both to re-
move remaining vestiges of
anti-Semitic attitudes, and to
teach respect for Judaism
"as a legitimate living re-
ligion."
Mrs. Claire Huchet Bishop,
a French Catholic writer and
American correspondent for
L'Amitie Judeo - Chretienne
(the French Jewish-Christian
Fellowship), urged these ac-
tions in a new book published
by Pauli st Press, "How
Catholics Look at Jews."
New Jersey Cemeteries Vandalized
PARAMUS, N.J. (JTA)-
About 150 headstones over-
turned by vandals several
weeks ago in the Cedar Park
and adjoining Beth El cem-
eteries are still on the
ground, according to Simon
Zinn of the Bronx, N.Y., who
visited the cemetery.
Attempts by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency to elicit
information from the jointly-
owned Jewish cemeteries
proved fruitless. A man who
identified himself as Mr.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
It is good to see American
Jewry taking note of the cen-
tennial of Rabbi Stephen
Wise. If Mr. Gallup had
polled the question, "Who is
the most popular rabbi?"
Wise would easily have won.
There would, of course,
have been some runners-up.
Abba Hillel Silver of Cleve-
land surpassed Wise in He-
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Levy said "we're taking care
of it" but would not explain
what this meant. The Bronx
man said he was moved to
tears by the vandalism.
Paramus police said they
did not handle the incident
but recalled that about 148
tombstones had been over-
turned about three weeks
ago. The cemeteries also
abut Emerson and Washing-
ton Township but police in
the municipalities - did not
recall the incidents.
sive pioneering studies of
Catholic teaching materials
carried out at the papally-
chartered International Uni-
versity of Social Studies "Pro
Deo" in Rome and at Lou-
vain University, a Catholic
institution in Belgium.
The Pro Deo researchers,
according to Mrs. Bishop,
found references to Jews in
Italian teaching materials
twice as frequent as refer-
ences to Protestants, and
negative references to Jews
almost five times as frequent
as positive ones. In Spanish
texts, Jews were mentioned
six times as often as Protes-
tants, but negative references
to Jews were only one and
one-half times as frequent as
positive ones.
The researchers also con-
sidered whether some hos-
tility toward Jews and other
outgrOups might be inevit-
able 'in religious teaching,
inasmuch as the text-books
examined appeared "at first
glance to conform literally
to the New Testament." On
closer inspection, however,
it was noted that many of the
textbook writers, consciously
or unconsciously, -- tended to
select details from the New
Testament that lent them-
selves to an anti-Jewish in-
terpretation, and to omit or
gloss over others.
Stephen Wise—the People's Choice
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The volume is based on
studies sponsored by the
American Jewish Commit-
tee's Leonard and Rose A.
Sperry International Center
for the Resolution of Group
Conflict.
- Acknowledging that many
positive changes had been
made since Vatican Council
II, she stated that the age-
old anti-Jewish "conditioning
process" of Christian culture
revealed by the Pro Deo and
Louvain University studies
required additional changes
in the following areas: de-
rogatory language, the Pas-
sion story, the "blood curse,"
the Diaspora, sayings of
Jesus, post-biblical history,
Bible interpretation, Catholic
liturgy, teaching about Juda-
ism and theology.
In her volume, Mrs. Bishop
reviews the findings of mas-
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brew learning and had a de-
voted following. In Chicago,
there was the thundering
voice of Sinai Temple's Emil
G. Hirsch, but the mass of
American Jews -were mag-
netized by the Wise charisma.
Wise would have gotten thou-
sands of non-Jewish votes.
John Haynes Holmes thought
Wise the greatest orator in
the American pulpit. Once
Wise spoke in a Black church
and the minister introducing
him said, (or it sounded like
he said), "Dr. Wise is con-
ceited to be one of the great-
est orators in the country."
Wise said to the minister, "I
see you know me."
Wise didn't need any mi-
crophones. He had a power-
ful voice and was as easy to
take as a spring day. "11 we
live within a stone's throw
of each other," he would
say, "it is no reason why we
should throw stones at each
other."
He founded the Free Syn-
agogue with branches in var_
ions cities. Yes, he would say,
"Why shouldn'• we work in
religion as the United Cigar
Stores work with tobacco?"
He opposed America's en-
trance into World. War I, but
when the - decision was taken,
went to work in a shipyard.
He had that humor which
Americans regarded as their
special gift. But didn't Hillel
joke? It is told of Hillel, that
leaving his class one day, he
said to the students, "I have
to go to perform a mitzva."
"What mitzva is that?"
asked his students.
"To take a bath," said Hil-
lel, chuckling.
"It is a sin," Wise once
told his congregation, "to
carry money on Shabbes.
Empty your pockets here."
Considering the list, the
present generation seems or-
phaned. Have we men today
to match a list like Einstein,
Freud, Weizmann, Brandeis
and Wise?
Perhaps we do not need
them. We do not need the
strong individual as the
strength of the people as a
whole is greater. We doubt if
a Hitler could arise so easily
today. Moshe Dayan's boys
have inspired a little fear and
respect for muscular qualities
which - the world respects
more than Einstein's scienti-
fic achievement.
In those days, the great
Jew was a necessity. Even a
Weizmann had trouble. When
Israel first emerged, the La-
bor Party in England was in
control. One might have
thought they would show
sympathy for Israel but Ern-
est Bevin was foreign sec-
retary and Weizmann shud-
dered to visit him. He said he
always liked to have some-
one accompany him when he
went to see Bevin. "No sin-
gle individual," said Weiz-
mann, "could be expected to
confront, so much ignorance
as Bevin possessed."
Similarly, in an earlier day,
when the American •approval
was desirable for the Balfour
Declaration, Wise was need-
ed. Many American Jewish
leaders of the day were op-
posed to the Balfour Declara-
tion and Wise warned Presi-
dent Wilson that he would be
visited by them with their
petitions.
Wilson, who was very
friendly to Wise, reassured
him, "Don't worry, Dr. Wise,
I have a big wastebasket,"
said Wilson.