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CBS Re-Broadcast on Syrian Jews Attacked
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AJCongress said Wallace
knew which made it clear
that Nusseris' testimony
"could not be believed."
Rabbi Hertzberg said that
Wallace "certainly knew by
Sunday that two of the Nus-
seris' sons had fled Syria"
and that members of the
Nusseri family had been
held for "interrogation" in a
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Syrian jail for more than a
month.
The rabbi said Wallace's
promise on Sunday's re-
broadcast to return to Syria
for another look at Syrian
Jewry was unhelpful be-
cause "no accurate picture
of the Syrian Jewish com-
munity can emerge if it de-
pends for its information on
interviews held within
Syria," adding that "no Jew-
ish family inside Syria can
speak freely."
Rabbi Hertzberg said that
if BBC News wanted to
"redress the imbalance," it
should arrange for Wallace
to do what the AJCongress
proposed in conversations
and a letter — "interview a
Syrian Jew who has man-
aged to escape within recent
months and is now beyond
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the reach of Syrian author-
ity."
Rabbi Hertzberg said
this was the only way to
correct "the distorted pic-
ture of Syrian Jewry
broadcast to millions on
Feb. 16 and repeated again
on June 8."
The AJCongress said
Wallace in Sunday's re-
broadcast repeated state-
ments attributed to uniden-
tified sources that Syrian
President Hafez Assad had
made a "calculated deci-
sion" to end the persecution
of Syrian Jews Wallace
"merely repeated a rumor
and left his audience with a
clear impression that it was
a fait accompli."
On the first program, the
AJCongress said, Wallace
had declared that Kuneitra
had been destroyed, not by
war, but by Israeli bulldoz-
ers in 1974.
On Sunday's re-broad-
cast, Wallace conceded that
Kuneitra "had been practi-
cally destroyed in the wars
of 1967 and 1973," but "this
reluctant admission still left
viewers with the impression
that Israeli troops had
seized a viable city and lev-
eled it."
The agency charged that
Wallace "again failed to
make clear" that Kuneitra
had been a ghost town and
that any leveling had been
done to buildings empty of
their original residents for
eight years.
By the standard of "fair
and responsible presenta-
tion to the American public
of the truth about the Jews
of Syria," Rabbi Hertzberg
said, CBS "failed in its ori-
ginal broadcast of Feb. 16
and failed again on June 8
after its initial report had
been called into question,
CBS made no amends by its
re-broadcast; it com-
pounded the error."
Reform Seminary Graduates
First Official Female Cantor
NEW YORK — Barbara
Herman became the first of-
ficial female cantor Sunday
as Dr. Alfred Gottschalk,
president of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion bestowed
upon her the official investi-
ture of the institution's
School of Sacred Music at
exercises at Temple Emanu-
El in Manhattan.
At the same time, the
HUC-JIR ordained 17 Re-
form rabbis, three cantors
received their investitures
and honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters degrees
were awarded to Meyer
Levin, author; and Hans
Morgenthau, political scien-
tist.
At the exercises, the sec-
ond woman rabbi in Reform
Judaism, Marcia S. Bern-
stein, was ordained. In 1972,
the HUC-JIR ordained the
first female rabbi, Sally
Priesand, who now serves at
the Stephen Wise Free Syn-
agogue in New York.
In granting Cantor Her-
man her new title, Dr.
Gottschalk said "today we
find ourselves midway into
the year of the woman and
we have heard a great deal
about giving women
equality in religious prac-
tice. This has never been a
difficulty for Reform Ju-
`Sadat May Be
Greatest Actor'
WASHINGTON ( ZINS)
— "If Sadat isn't telling the
truth about his yearning for
peace, then he is history's
greatest actor."
This is what Kissinger
says to his critics when they
call attention to the incon-
sistency of Sadat's state-
ments about peace and his
deeds.
Kissinger's critics agree
with him that Sadat yearns
for peace. However, the
problem is that his desire is
not to achieve peace with
the state of Israel but to ar-
rive at a state of peace with-
out Israel.
CANTOR HERMAN
daism, which has always
stressed the equality of the
woman and today finds
scores of females as presi-
dents of congregations,
serving on temple boards,
and an integral part of our
Reform Jewish institu-
tional life."
Cantor Herman, a native
of St. Louis, will continue to
serve Beth _Sholom Reform
Temple of Clifton-Passaic,
N.J., where she started as a
student cantor in 1973. Her
husband, Frederick, also a
cantor, whom she net at the
HUC-JIR's School of Sacred
Music, works in the Lincoln
Center Library, Music Divi-
sion.
The cantor represents the
co-officiant at religious
services. directs and super-
vises all musical activities in
the synagogue, teaches
young people and adults and
assists the congregational
rabbi in various life-cycle
functions such as weddings,
Bar or Bat Mitzva or funer-
als.
To receive her earned ti-
tle, Cantor Herman com-
pleted the full course of a
five-year study program at
the Nev York school. The
HUC-JIR School of Sacred
Music serves all three
branches of Judaism, Ortho-
dox. Conservative and Re-
form. Rabbi Paul Steinberg
is the dean of the school.