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Local AJC Leader Welcomes Unbiased Passion Play
NAW YORK — Ameri-
can Christian and Jewish
leaders welcomed the recent
vote of the town council of
Oberammergau, Germany,
which has decided that the
1980 presentation of its
famous Passion Play is to be
based on an earlier text
rather than on the highly
anti-Semitic version that
has been presented for more
than a century.
As a result of the vote, the
1980 Passion Play is to be
performed from a script
written in 1750 by a Be-
efine monk, Ferdinand
ner, replacing an .1860
text by a priest named
Joseph Alois Daisenberger.
The Daisenberger version,
which has been acted every
10 years for more than a
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century, is filled with
statements and implica-
tions holding the Jejish
people solely responsible for
the death of Jesus: The
Rosner script maintains
that all mankind was re-
sponsible for Jesus' death,
and that his crucifixion
stemmed from a plot
hatched by Lucifer and his
evil spirits.
Representatives of the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, the Na-
tional Council of Churches
of Christ and the American
Jewish Committee, at a
news conference at the AJ-
Committee's headquarters,
called the council's decision
"a major step in consolidat-
ing the improved relation-
ship between Christians
Rights Unit Condemns Israel
GENEVA — The United
Nations Human Rights
Commission has con- .
demned Israel for the eighth
consecutive year for alleged
atrocities in the adminis-
tered territories.
Only the U.S. and Caliada
opposed the motion and
seven of the 32 member na-
tions abstained.
The U.S., Canada and
Britain opposed the annual
motion supporting "the
struggle of the Palestinian
Mizrachi Women
Shabat March 18
NEW YORK—American
Mizrachi Women President
Sarah Shane announces the
annual. "AMW Shabat," a
nationwide Sabbath salute
to the major women's religi-
ous Zionist organization in
the U.S., will take place
March 18.
Deanne Shapiro, AMW
Shabat chairman, reported
that congregationi . and
communities in 37 states
and the District of Colum-
bia will participate. Ser-
mons will be delivered em-
phasizing the importance of
continued support for child
welfare institutions.
Jewish Chaplain
Asked to Shave
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The U.S. Air Force has de-
nied permission to Chaplain
Alan Kalinsky to wear a
beard despite a 1976 federal
court ruling that the Air
Force anti-beard regulation
was unconstitutional in an
arlier, almost identical
situation.
The National Jewish
Commission on Law and
Public Affairs said it had
filed a complaint in federal
court in Washington in be-
half of the Bangor, Maine,
reserve chaplain.
people . . . through the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization."
Nations sponsoring the
anti-Israel resolution in-
cluded Nigeria, Senegal,
Rwanda, Cuba, Cyprus,_In-
Clia, Pakistan and Yugos-
lavia.
Aid for Overseas
Jews Is Sought
NEW YORK Project
Areivim is seeking Jewish
college graduates-to contri-
bute one year of service in
overseas Jewish com-
munities. Jewish educators
and community organizers
are needed in European,
Asian and North African
Jewish communities. Vol-
unteees, who receive
stipends from the host
community, work in youth
clubs, community centers,
education facilities, social,
service agencies and on
campuses.
Persons with skills in
education, community or-
ganization, cultural prog-
ramming, youth work,
ethnography or related
fields are needed.
For applications and in-
formation, write Project
Areivim, Network, 15 E.
26th St., Room 1350, New
York, N.Y., 10010. Project
Areivim is sponsored by the
World Union of Jewish
students.
IDB Assets Up'
NEW YORK — Israel
Discount Bank Ltd. re-
ported consolidated net
operating income rose in
1977 to IL. 237 million
($15.4 milliori), up from IL.
113.8 million ($13 million)
in 1976.
Consolidated
assets
reached IL. 71.7 billion
($4.6 billion), up from IL.
36.8 billion ($4.2 billion) at
the close of the prior year.
ERA Vote Angers Branch Office
NEW YORK — The
Reform Teachers Union
of Orthodox Jewish
DAYTON, Ohio — The
National Association of
Temple Educators has voted
to cancel its planned 1978
conference in Chicago be-
cause Illinois has not as yet
ratified the Equal Rights
Amendment.
Congregations of America
announces it has opened an
office in Washington, D.C.
The new office, headed by
attorney David Martin, is
located in Suite 1020 of the
Watergate Building, 600
New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
and Jews that evolved from
the Vatican Council II de-
claration repudiating the
charge against the Jewish
people for collective guilt in
the death of Jesus."
Miles Jaffee of Detroit,
chairman of the AJ-
Committee's interreligi-
ous Affairs Commission,
who had visited
Oberammergau twice
during the past six
months, expressed spe-
cial appreciation to
members of the town
council who voted in
favor of the Rosner
script.
Jaffee had visited the
Bavarian village last Au-
gust, and again in January,
as a member of the AJC de-
legation headed by Rabbi
Marc H. Tanenbaum, the
organization's national di-
rector of interreligiouls af-
fairs. In August, they had
attended a trial perfor-
mance of the Rosner text,
and in January held further
discussions with the play's
IsraTech '78
Set for June
NEW YORK — Avraham
Asheri, deputy director
general of the Israel Minis-
try of Industry, Commerce
and Tourism, is in the U.S.
to ineet with American in-
dustrialists to discuss -Is-
raTech '78, Israel's June 4-8
exposition of its high
technology industries.
For information on Isra-
Tech '78, contact the Gov-
ernment of Israel Invest-
ment Authority, .641
Lexington, New York, N.Y.
10022.
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Sunday I P.M.
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Monday 11 A.M.
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Tuesday 11 A.M.
Fashions by "JUST MARILYN'S"
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delegation from South Af-
rica is attending the World
Zionist Congress in
Jerusalem. Forty delegates
and alternates will repre-
sent all the South African
Zionist parties.
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