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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, July 2, 1976
Presbyterian Warns of 'Massive' Attempt to Convert
Jews to Christianity During Bicentennial Celebration
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Presbyterian minister with
close ties to the Jewish
Community has warned
that Christian missionaries
have launched a major ef-
fort to convert Jews this
summer. The Rev. Paul R.
Carlson, Pastor of the Glen-
Morris Presbyterian
Church, Ozone Park,
Queens, said that the effort,
known as "Operation Birth-
day Cake," began Sunday
with calls for a massive
street corner missionary
drive in every major city in
the United States.
Carlson, a journalist and
author of the book "Chris-
tians and Jews" which
explains Judaism to Chris-
tians, said that one of the
missionary groups, Jews for
Jesus, plans a major cam-
paign aimed at Bicentennial
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delphia and Washington
this week.
Birthday
"Operation
Cake" is more of a threat to
the Jewish community than
was the nationwide "Key
'73" campaign three years
ago, Carlson said. He said
that there seems to be an in-
terlocking of various mis-
sionary groups for this cam-
paign.
However, he noted that
there are differences be-
tween the various mission-
ary groups. The old Amer-
ican Board of Mission to
the Jews demands out-
right conversion while the
so-called Hebrew Chris-
tians, such as Jews for
Jesus, seek to perpetuate
the "fraud" that Chris-
tianity is the real Juda-
ism.
The minister-journalist
said that from his experi-
ence with Hebrew Chris-
tians they are either self-
hating Jews or Jews whose
Judaism stopped with their
Bar or Bat Mitzvah. He said
he experienced this recently
when he was asked to speak
on the Holocaust at a con-
ference "God, the Jew and
you," at the first Christian-
ity and Missionary Alliance
Church in Manhattan.
He said the Hebrew
Christians at the conference
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the most pro-Israel. He
noted that up to the Six-Day
War Jewish organizations
sought to work only with
liberal Christians but it is
these liberals who have been
anti-Israel during the Six-
Day and Yom Kippur Wars.
Carlson compares the
problem to pre-war Ger-
many where it was liberal
clergymen who joined the
Nazis while the conserva-
tives opposed them.
Explaining this, Carlson
said a noted Christian
scholar recently said that
in the eyes of the church
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Catholic Theologian Sees End To
Christian Religious Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
leading Catholic theologian
foresees the disappearance
of Christian religious anti-
Semitism and Vatican rec-
ognition of Israel. The pre-
diction was made by the
Rev. Edward H. Flannery,
executive secretary of the
Secretariat for Catholic-
Jewish Relations of the U.S
Bishops Conference, in an
essay in the Anti-Defama-
tion League of B'nai B'rith
interreligious quarterly
"Face to Face." The issue,
entitled "Jewish-Christian
Relations: Looking to the
Twenty-First Century," fea-
tures the views of Catholics,
Protestants and Jews who
have been prominent in the
Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Father Flannery antici-
pates that "anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Nazi storm troppers in full
Nazi regalia including
storm trooper uniforms,
Swastika arm bands and
Nazi flags will rally during
the bicentennial weekend in
front of the White House ac-
cording to the final decision
reached Monday by the
Ford Administration.
In a last effort to make
the administration change
its previous decision, Sen J.
Glenn Beall, Jr. (R-MD) and
Jewish community leaders
met monday afternoon with
Asst. Secretary of the Inte-
rior, John Kyl, and officials
of the national capitol parks
and the police. Members of
Club Shalom, an organiza-
tion of Holocaust survivors,
made an impassioned ap-
peal to Kyl.
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missionary effort comes
from Christians who are
guilty over the Holocaust
and are "suckered" into
believing that they can
help the Jews by convert-
ing them. But Carlson said
he has always preached
that neither conversion
nor assimilation works.
Carlson who calls himself
a Zionist and is writing a
doctoral dissertation on the
Holocaust, said that one of
the problems for the Jewish
community is that the very
evangelical Christians who
seek to convert Jews are also
fort."
Dr. David R. Hunter,
formerly deputy general
secretary of the National
Council of Churches,
stated that a major obsta-
cle to eliminating anti-
Semitism is the root of the
prejudice in the New Tes-
tament and the writings of
such revered leaders as St.
John Chrysostom and
Martin Luther. Comment-
ing that this has been "a
paralyzing force," he ob-
served that "it will proba-
bly take another John
XXIII, supported by a
non-temporizing Curia, a
courageous World Council
of Churches, and a host of
faithful lay people around
the world really to change
the course of history and
finally remove the reli-
gious sanctions for anti-
Semitism."
Dr. Franklin H. Littell,
founder of Christians Con-
cerned for Israel, called for
a fundamental reexamina-
Dr. William Perl, Chair- tion of Christian theology in
man of the International the light of the Holocaust
Advisory Council of the and a returned Israel.
Jewish Defense League,
He went on to pose ques-
pointed out that the Nazi tions about the credibility of
Party is a forbidden organi- Christianity after 6,000,000
zation "in all civilized coun- Jews were murdered by
tries" including the country baptized Christians,
of its origin, Germany. He whether or not Jesus could
also stressed that this is not be considered a "false Mes-
a matter of offending Jews siah" and, "if Jesus is the
only, "but all those who true Messiah, where are the
fought the Nazis in World signs of the Messianic age?"
War II and were killed by
Prof. Michael Wsycho-
them."
grod, of Baruch College,
The administration offi-
urged that Christianity "not
cials cited various park
lose its self-confidence" in
regulations and main-
the next century because of
tained that the permit
"a sense of horror at Chris-
will not be cancelled. A
tian anti-Semitism," which,
suggestion by Senator
he noted, is at times "the re-
Beall to change the loca-
sult not so much of compas-
tion of the Nazi demon-
sion at the suffering of
stration for a place less
Jews" as using the Jewish
central and safer was
issue to injure the church.
equally rejected.
He said Nazism and
The demonstration will be
Communism are the two
held from 11 a.m. to 4:30
greatest enemies of Jews
p.m. as originally scheduled
and Judaism in this cen-
on Saturday.
tury and are also "the
most virulent anti-Chris-
ti4n forces."
Democracy Aid
According to Wsycho-
Democracy. cannot survive grod, "while Jewish exist-
without the guidance of a ence under Christian rule
creative minority.
left much to be desired,
—Harlan F. Stone
Jewish existence under anti-
Christian rule is far, far
Better not to vow, than to
worse. The continuation of
vow and not pay.
living Christianity is vital to
—Ecclesiastes 5.
Jews."
of a religious or theoretical
kind will be the first to dis-
appear, leaving the field to
secular or religious varie-
ties." He said that for Chris-
tian churches, "which con-
tributed so potently to the
creation and growth of anti-
Judaism and anti-Semi-
tism," to be among the first
to repudiate it is "a histori-
cal reversal."
He described the princi-
pal forms of anti-Semitism
today as being "completely
laicized, such as those found
in Soviet Russia, the Middle
East, fascist parties and
some 'liberal' ideologies."
These varieties, he contin-
ued, "live an existence of
their own, independent of
all religious sustenance, and
are impervious to all eccle-
siastical influence or ef-
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attacked Judaism and made
many anti-Semitic refer-
ences. He found himself de-
fending Judaism at the con-
ference.
Carlson noted that many
of these Hebrew Christians
claim that they come from
Orthodox homes whose par-
ents threw them out, state-
ments he says he cannot be-
lieve. He said he thinks they
claim to have been Orthodox
as a means of pleasing
Christians and most know
nothing about Judaism.
Carlson believes that
much of the money for the
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the only good Jew was a
dead one or a converted
one. He said the liberals
have opted for killing Jews
while the conservatives
have sought to their con-
version.
Carlson said that he has
no ready answer for tl-
Jewish community to mee,
the missionary effort. He
said that both the church
and synagogue in the
United States was going
through a crisis of faith and
it was necessary to bri
everybody back to their o v
religion and have the va711.
ious faiths work in brother-
hood with each other.
Klutznick Says UN
Still Worthwhile
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Philip M. Klutznick, an
American Jewish leader and
a former member of the
U.S. delegation to the
United Nations with the
rank of ambassador, be-
lieves that despite its
"failures in peace-keeping
and miserably unbalanced —
resolutions of the General
Assembly and even the Se-
curity Council," mankind is
better off with the world or-
ganization than if it did not
exist.
Klutznick made his state=
ments, both commendatory
and critical of the UN, in an
address delivered at the
Confreence on United
States Objectives in the
United Nations System held
at the Ralph Bunche Insti-
tute of the United Nations,
City University of New York
Graduate School.
"When some fine and
able people go so far as to
suggest that we can find
other ways of doing good
rather than to tolerate the
bad that the UN does, they
have permitted their justi-
fied pique over a reprehen-
sible act to outweigh their
practical sense and under-
standing of the world in
which we live, "--Klutznick
said.
He referred directly to
the remarks by the former
U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
Daniel P. Moynihan, who
said after last November's
General Assembly, this
could never have happened."
Youth Day Cent
for Drop-outs Set
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Faye Schenk Yout
Day Center of Youth Al'
was dedicated last week.
The center will serve 170
youngsters, in the suburbs
of Kiryat. Menahem, who
dropped out of normal
schools or are on the verge
of doing so. Over 50 percent
of the people living in that
suburb are of North African
and Oriental origin and have
the highest percentage of
children in the city.
The center will be com-
pleted within a year to pro-
vide youth between the ages
of 13--16 with 29 hours
weekly of vocational train-
ing, 18 hours of general
studies and four hours of so-
cial and sporting activities.