Dulzin to Withdraw if Napir `Who Is a Jew' Issue Still Conservatives Expel 3 Rabbis, Wants 2 Major Jewish Posts Obstacle to Israel Cabinet One for Mixed Marriage Role Story on Page 3 Tragedy of the 'St. Louis': When Roosevelt Failed to Help Rescue Hitler's Victims Story on Page 9 Stoll' an Page 14 JEWISH NEWS 1 2:4 Review of 'Voyage 4 the Damned' on Page 56 A Weekly Review . of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Vol. LXV. No. 9 0 4:59* 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c Is There a U.S. 'Cave-In' in Friendship With Israel? What's the Kissinger Role? Commentary Page 2 May 10, 1974 Israel Submits to Far-Reaching Withdrawals Map. Submitted for Syrian Consent Includes Abandonment of Kuneitra Nazi-Hunter Arrested in Germany; Mrs. Klarsfeld's Release Sought PARIS (JTA)—The French Jewish community has sharply condemned the arrest of Beate Klarsfeld by German authorities near Munich and her detention without bail in a Cologne jail until her trial which is expected to take place in July. The avowed Nazi nunter was arrested on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day while attending a demonstration at the site of the former Dachau concen- tration camp to protest against the Bonn parliament's delay in ratifying an extradition accord signed three years ago with France. mss. Klarsfeld is accused by German authorities of having tried ..:- - 4:;e years ago to kidnap Kurt Lischka, former head of the Gestapo ,• • Paris during the German occupation of France, and bringing him to justice in France where a court sentenced him in absentia in September 1950 to life imprisonment for war crimes. Mrs. Klarsfeld was deported from West Germany and told she would face charges if she returned. In condemning West German authorities for her arrest and incarceration, the French section of the World Jewish Congress recalled that her fundamental aim is "the search for war crimi- nals." The International League Against Racism, and Anti-Semitism (LICA) called for Mrs. Klarsfeld's "immediate release" and has set up solidarity committees to support her cause. The Association of Former Jewish Deportees of France declared their solidarity with tne anti-Nazi activist and in a communique called for her release and demanded "the Nazi torturers be thrown in prison in her place." (In Jerusalem, Leon Duizin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, called on West Germany to free Mrs. Klarsfeld. Duizin said that her activities express deep humanism and solidarity with the Jewish people. Tuvia Friedman, chairman of the International Organization of Jewish Victims of Nazi Crimes, cabled West Ger- man President Gustav Heinemann asking for his personal interven- tion to free Mrs. Klarsfeld. Other Holocaust survivors organizations and former members of partisan organizations now in Israel also sent cables of protest to German Cnancellor Willy Brandt.) (A large group of former concentration camp inmates and 4 re i. tance fighters demonstrated outside the West German Embassy Aviv demanding Mrs. Klarsfeld's release. They were joined , ,..., _ (Continued on Page 5) -- - JERUSALEM (JTA)—Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, returning here from Damascus Wednesday night, told reporters that while no agreement had been reached in four hours of talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad, "some progress" has been made and he would return to Damascus later this week. His remarks seemed to confirm a report from Damascus quoting U.S. officials to the effect that Kissinger was considering prolonging his current mission in the Middle East into next week. Extension of his stay in the region could indicate progress in efforts to effect a disengagement accord between Israel and Syria, observers said. Kissinger went to Damasdus with the latest Israeli proposals including a new map. He told reporters that "President Assad in return conveyed to me some Syrian considerations which I am taking back to Israel." He described his talks with Assad as "very good and very friendly." Kissinger reportedly was to fly to Cairo Thursday for further talks with Egyptian leaders. There were also reports that he would visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While no official disclosures have been made, it was reliably learned that the Israeli plan Kissinger conveyed to Syrian President Assad goes a considerable way toward meeting Syrian territorial demands while safeguarding the security of Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights. According to the plan, Does Schmidt Chancellorshi p Israel would relinquish the largest portion of Kuneitra, ignit y Bonn Trend to Right? the biggest township on the BONN (JTA) — Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt has been Golan Heights which it cap- nominated to succeed Willy Brandt, who resigned May 6 after ac- tured in the 1967 war but cepting political responsibility for negligence in the Bonn espionage would retain the town's east- scandal, in which a Brandt aide, Guenter Guillaume, was arrested ern precincts, including a stra- on April 24 on charges of spying for East Germany. tegic road junction vital to the Schmidt is a tough hard-liner on the right wing of the Social protection of the Golan settle- Democratic Party. Some observers fear his election as chancellor, ments. expected on May 18, will encourage a drift to the right in German Israel would also withdraw politics, and that Brandt's departure could bring internal political instability. from the villages of Amadiyeh, Like Brandt, Schmidt, a good friend of Israel, is likely to con- north of Kuneitra, and Sur- tinue ,Brandt's "balanced policy" in the Middle East, developing man, to the south, both scenes relations with Arabs, but not at Israel's expense. This has been the of heavy fighting in the Six- hallmark of Brandt's Middle East policy since 1969. Day War. But Israel would re- Bonn has been stunned by Brandt's resignation. Shock has also tain the three strategic hills come from behind the Iron Curtain, with Communist countries west of Kuneitra which it con- blaming his departure on a personal campaign from the extreme siders vital to the defense of right in West Germany, especially from the Bavarian Cnristian the Golan Heights. According Social Union. Others see Brandt's resignation as an education in democracy and courage for West Germans, who normally prefer to to the reported new map, the cling to the seats. (Continued on Page 5) Shehita Upheld by Federal Court as Humane Method of Slaughtering NEW YORK—The unanimous decision by a three-judge federal court upholding the constitutionality of kosher slaughter- ing (shehita) was hailed this week as "a signal victory for religious freedom." The suit, known as Jones v. Butz, was regarded by court observers as the first serious challenge to the Humane Slaughter Act since its enactment in 1958. The joint advisory committee of the Synagogue Council of America and the National Jewish Community Relations Ad- visory Council—which intervened in the case as defendants — said the federal court's ruling "not only reaffirms that the Jewish ritual method of slaughter is hu- mane, but rejects the argument that the federal humane slaughter law is a reli- gious law forbidden by the First Amend- ment." In its ruling, the court accepted argu- ments advanced in the brief filed by the joint advisory committee that: (1) The section in the law. defining Jewish ritual slaughter as humane is based on uncontra- dicted scientific evidence; (2) Its inclusion did ,not constitute a law respecting an establishment of religion; (3) The statute is, in all respects, within the competence of Congress in the exercise of its power to enact all measures necessary and proper to carry out the national policy of protect- ing religious freedom. The complaint came from a group of eight taxpayers, the Society for Animal Rights and the Committee for a Wall of Separation Beween Church and State in America. Leo Pfeffer, special counsel for the American Jewish Congress, served as at- torney for the joint advisory committee of the Synagogue Council of America and the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. The committee com- prises 12 national rabbinical, congrega- tional and community relations agencies affiliated with the Synagogue Council and the NJCRAC, and 97 local Jewish commu- nity councils across the country, including Detroit's. In its decision, the court held that there had been "a persuasive showing" in the course of the trial that "Jewish ritual slaughter . . . was historically related to considerations of humaneness in times when such concerns were practically non- existent." The court also held that "by making it possible for those who wish to eat ritually acceptable meat to slaughter the animal in accordance with the tenets of their faith, Congress neither established the tenets of that faith nor interfered with the exercise of any other." The decision was rendered by a three- judge panel composed of former Appeals Court Judge Henry J. Friendly, and dis- trict Judges Edmund L. Palmieri and Dudley R. Bonsai. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is expected, according to Dr. Pfeffer. The joint advisory committee will participate in the case on appeal, he said. Several Orthodox organizations repre- sented by Nathan Lewin, attorney for the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLFA), also intervened in the case on behalf of the defendants and filed a separate brief.