THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Boredom in Israel TEL AVIV (ZINS)—A major reason for boredom in many Israel development towns and rural settlements is the undeveloped state of lei S . ure activities in the country. Prof. Lester Rhoads, director of the De- partment of Leisure Studies at the City University of New York and a visiting professor in Israel, said. He said that today's dehumaniz- ing modern society makes productive use of leisure time a necessity not a lux- ury. PORTRAITS IN YOUR HOME Specializing in Children & Family C amera Ot3curra Marshall Dubin 531-7655 Catholic Church Tells Parley It Rejects All Proselytizing NEW YORK (JTA)—The sixth annual meeting of the International Catholic-Jew- ish Liaison Committee ended with an agreement that the Catholic church re- jects any proselytism of Jews. The meeting, which was held in Venice, Italy March 28-30, was reported by the Synagogue Council of Amer- ica (SCA) which partici- pated in it. In the major paper of the meeting, Prof. Tommaso Federici, professor of Bible at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and at the Litur- gical Institute of San An- selmo in Rome, said that the Catholic church's under- standing of her mission pre- cludes proselytism. "The church thus rejects in a clear way every form of proselytism," he de- clared. 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Shears 205-217 Pierce Street Birmingham, Michigan 48011 Phone: 645-1160 • •' ‘ - 7, .; t 7.• physical, moral, psychologi- cal or cultural constraint on the Jews, both individuals and communities, such as might in any way destroy or even simply reduce their personal judgement, free will and.full autonomy of de- cision at the personal or community level." Federici stressed that "also excluded is every sort of judgement expressive of discrimination, contempt or restriction against the Jew- ish people as such, and against individual Jews as such or against their faith, their worship, their general culture, and in particular, their religious culture, their past and present history, their existence and its meaning." He said also excluded were any forms of "hate- ful" comparison "which exalt the religion and fact of Christianity and by throwing discredit on the re- ligion and fact of Judaism, whether in the past or in the present." Rabbi Henry Siegman,' ex- ecutive vice president of the SCA, said that Feder- ici's paper, by its unquali- fied condemnation of prose- lytism and its rejection of "all attempts to set up or- ganizations of any sort" for the conversion of Jews, rep- resents a significant devel- opment in the Catholic church that is bound to con- tribute to a deeper under- standing between the two re- ligions. Prof. Shemaryahu Tal- mon, of the Hebrew Univer- sity in Jerusalem, de- scribed a cooperative study program sponsored jointly by the Pontifical Biblical In- stitute and the Hebrew Uni- versity which consists of two semesters of HebreNf language studies, Bible, Jewish history, geography and archeology. In West Germany, the Catholic Bishops recently designated a permanent work group on "The Church and Judaism," the goal of which is the promotion of a dialogue with the Jewish people, Bishop Karl B. Flu- gel, Auxiliary Bishop of Re- gensburg, reported. Theodore Freedman of New York reported on a va- riety of educational pro- grams presently under way to further Jewish-Catholic understanding. Rev. Jorge Majia said that a dialogue between the Roman Catholic church and Judaism was being carried on at the highest levels by the Latin American Confer- ence of Catholic Bishops and the Latin American Jewish communities. The Jewish members of the Liaison Committee ex- pressed appreciation for the support given Latin Ameri- can Jewry by the Catholic church in face of anti-Semi- tic manifestations. Hebrew scholar and translator Isaac Pinto signed the Non- Importation Act of 1765, the American colonies' answer to the British Stamp Act. In 1766 he published an English translation of the Hebrew Prayer. Book, ' Friday, April 8, 1977 19 Right in Your. Own Driveway! Jewish Historical Quarterly Examines U.S. Jewish Politics WALTHAM, Mass.—The political liberalism of Amer- ican Jews is based on group insecurity, psychological ambiguity, and Torah based values, a leading political scientist claims. Writing in the winter issue of the American Jew- ish Historical Quarterly, Dr. Lawrence H. Fuchs of Brandeis University further maintains that anti-Semi- tism also is responsible for a Jewish- commitment to a political system open to any- one who cares about issues. The Quarterly, a pub- lication of the American Jewish Historical Society,. devotes the Winter '76-77 issues to American Jewish political behavior as a Bi- centennial special. Its arti- cles are written by leading academicians. Other articles include: "The Roots of American Jewish Liberalism" by Ben Halpern of Brandeis Univer- sity. Professor Halpern states that the United States Constitution created an environment over- whelmingly favorable to the development of a style of Jewish liberalism similar to that which arose in Western Europe. "Congressman 'Drinan S.J., and His Jewish Con- stituents" by Paula Gold- man Leventman and Sey- mour Leventman of Boston College highlight the pdssi- %Hay of a connection be- tween Jewish values and the response to Father Dri- nan for those Jews who are considered "cosmopolitan," who have "generalized and diffused many of the teach- ings and cultural excerpts of Judaism in their work and in their politics. "From Rags to Robes: The Legal Profession, So- cial Mobility and the Ameri- can Jewish Experience" by Jerold S. Auerbach, Welles- ley College. Professor Auer- bach details the struggles for entrance, advancement and recognition in a profes- sion whose elite and pow- erful members preferred to ostracize or exclude minor- ities. "The Ties That Bind: The Jewish Support for the Left in the United States" by Ar- thur Liebman of the State University of New York at Binghamton. Liebman attri- butes early Jewish leftist support to past experiences in Russia and Eastern Eu- rope, living conditions in America, the intellectual and political working class leadership and the weak- nesses of organized religion and religious leaders. "Continuity and Erosion of Jewish Liberalism:" by Alan Fisher of Small Col- lege, California State Col- lege. Although there has been some erosion of "Jew- ish liberalism" Fisher re- ports that Jews are more liberal today than they were twenty years ago and he predicts that as long as interests of world Jewry and American Jewry are not pitted against liberal policy, Jews will support lib- eral candidates. "Jewish Political Power: An Assessment:" by Will Maslow of City University of New York. 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