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Israeli General Warmly Greeted
While Envoy Gets Cold Shoulder
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel's ambassador to
Egypt, Eliahu Ben-Elissar,
is getting the cold shoulder
from Cairo's diplomatic and
social set in sharp contrast
to the genuinely warm re-
ception the Egyptian mili-
tary has given a visiting Is-
raeli general, Dan Shom-
ron, commander of the
southern front.
Shomron, who com-
manded the famous
Entebbe rescue operation in
July 1976, is a member of a
large Israeli military dele-
gation headed by Deputy
Defense Minister Mor-
dechai Zipori. He was the
guest of the Egyptian Sec-
ond Army and its comman-
der, Gen. Ibrahim el-Auodi,
who was Shomron's an-
tagonist in the Yom Kippur
War. Shomron became the
first Israeli officer to visit
an Egyptian army unit in
field deployment.
Ben-Elissar, on the other
hand, has had little social
contact with Egyptians
since he presented his cre-
dentials to President Anwar
Sadat last month, according
to Sami Greenspan, the
Yediot Achronot correspon-
dent in Cairo. Prime Minis-
ter Mustapha Khalil has
not yet found time to receive
him. He is not invited to
parties and Egypt's social
elite refuse to meet with
him beyond the minimum
requirements of protocol,
Greenspan reported.
According to
Greenspan, Ambassador
and Mrs. Ben-Elissar had
to call off a party they
planned to give this week
when 15 prominent
Egyptians declined their
invitation. The invitees
included senior officials,
newspaper editors and
literary figures.
Ben-Elissar has yet to be
interviewed by a leading
Cairo newspaper. Al
Akhbar sent a reporter but
the story has not appeared.
Greenspan observed that
the Egyptian pressed
marked Ben-Elissar's arri-
val in Cario three weeks ago
with a flurry of critical arti-
cles referring to the Israeli')
envoy's hard-line state...
ments on Jewish settle-
ments in the occupied ter-
ritories.
But the "social boycott"
does not extend to the Egyp-
tian man-in-the-street,
Greenspan, himself a native
of Cairo, reported. Wher-
ever the envoy goes he is
greeted with smiles, hand-
shakes and even kisses for
himself and his wife, Nitza.
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BOSTON (JTA) — The
American Jewish Congress
hailed an order of the Sup-
reme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts declaring
unconstitutional a state law
requiring public school
teachers to set aside a
period at the beginning of
each school day for "volun-
tary prayer."
Lawyers for the AJCon-
gress joined by attorneys
from the Civil Liberties
Union of Massachusetts
challenged the constitu-
tionality of the statute on
Feb. 5, the day it went into
effect, in behalf of public
school children and their
parents in Framingham
and Marblehead, Mass.
The court last Thursday
issued a brief order striking
down the statute and
enjoining the state Com-
missioner of Education and
local school officials from
enforcing it.
The court observed
that prayer was an in-
vocation of the deity,
whether the supplicant
sought a spiritual or sec-
ular end. The court also
cited a 1963 U.S. Supreme
Court decision in the
Schempp case, which
outlawed the practice of
Bible-reading in public
schools, and the 1962 rul-
ing in the case of Engel v.
Vitale.
In accordance with that
decision, the Massachusetts
court said it was irrelevant
that those reciting the
prayer were volunteers and
that students who decided
to be excused were afforded
an opportunity to do so.
Meanwhile, the AJCon-
gress has filed friend-of-
the-court briefs in two re-
lated cases:
• On behalf of the
Teaneck (N.J.) Township
board of education which
has been sued for attempt-
ing to accomodate religious
practices of its students by
extra-
discouraging
curricular activities on Fri-
day nights, Saturdays and
Sunday mornings;
• Against a federal ap-
peals court case which is
trying to overturn a district
court decision which prohib-
ited the city of Denver,
Colo., from displaying a
creche of the birth of Jesus
on public property during
the Christmas season.
Anti-Nazi Activist Is Cited
With a Medal in Hamburg
BONN (JTA) — Eugen
Kogon, an educator and
anti-Nazi activist, was
awarded a special medal in
Hamburg March 11 bearing
the names of two Jewish
philosophers, Martin Buber
and Franz Rosenzweig. The
award, made by the Asso-
ciation for Christian-
Jewish Cooperation, hon-
ored Kogon for his resis-
tance to the Nazis during
the era of the Third Reich.
The festive ceremonies
were held at the Hamburg
City Hall where Justice
Minister Hans-Jochen
Vogel congratulated Kogon
on behalf of Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt and the
federal government. In his
remarks he referred to the
recent Bundestag decision
to remove the statute of
limitations on prosecution
for murder, including Nazi
war crimes, and the estab-
lishment of the first Jewish
faculty at a German univer-
sity since the war as exam-
ples of the advancement of
Christian-Jewish relations
in the country.
Mayor Hans Klose of
Hamburg noted that one of
the first acts by city
authorities after the war
was to restore to the City
Hall the portraits of promi-
nent Jewish citizens that
had been removed by the
Nazis.
Kogon, responding to
the award, said the young
generation in West Ger-
many was eager to know
more about the past. But,
he observed, young
people are still not receiv-
ing sufficient orientation
on the subject and face
enormous difficulties in a
rapidly changing world.
A bitter note was injected
when one speaker remarked
that "Buergstadt is
everywhere in Germany."
Buergstadt is the small
Bavarian town whose citi-
zens raised 200,000 Marks
bail ($110,000) for their
former mayor, Ernst Hein-
richsohn, who was con-
victed last month and sen-
tenced to six years' impris-
onment for his role in the
deportation of French Jews
and others during World
War II.
who
Heinrichsohn,
served with the Gestapo in
Paris, was freed on bail, but
only briefly. He was re-
arrested by court order last
week pending the outcome
of his appeal to the high
court in Karlsruhe.
JDC Shipped
Pesach Supplies
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee
(JDC) has shipped over
400,000 pounds of Passover
supplies to small Jewisl-
communities throughout,
the world, including ship-
ments to the communities of
Egypt and Lebanon, accord
ing to JDC Presiden
Donald Robinson.
JDC Executive Vice
President Ralph Goldman
noted that for the past two
years JDC has been provid-
ing the small Jewish com-
munity of Egypt with
Passover matzot and
supplies directly, rather
than through the Interna-
tional Red Cross as was the
case for the past 31 years.
The depository of power is
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