THE DET01.11WellEif§'; Fri*: FifirdirSI4).1911. 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 *r 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. 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