F Current Threats to Church-State Separation and the Legacies of James Madison Commentary, Page 2 VOL. LXXVIII, No. 5 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review JNF's 80th Anniversary • Unforgotten Balfour Pledge Editorials, Page 4 of Jewish Events 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c October 3, 1980 achinegunning of 5 Jelivish rnstitutions in Paris Prcdested Playing for Time' Drama Didn't Tell Whole Story By ROCHELLE SAIDEL WOLK ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA) — "We know .a little something about the human race that we didn't know before, and it's not good news," Fania Fenelon says in the CBS-TV production of "Playing for Time," which was aired Tuesday evening. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was in- vited to preview the production without commercial interruptions. This statement referring to her experience as a member of the women's orchestra at the Birkenau extermination camp could also summarize the three-hour dramatization's effect on the viewer. "Playing for Time" has been surrounded by controversy since last year when Vanessa Redgrave, an outspoken supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was cast as Fenelon, a half-Jewish French musician. "You are an artist. In this place (Birkenau-Auschwitz) you will have to be an artist and only an artist," orchestra director Alma Rose tells Fenelon in the film. Perhaps both Redgrave and her critics should heed this advice about separating art and politics. Politics aside, as "artist and only an artist," Redgrave is superb in her role. The other actors — practically an all-woman cast, including Jane Alexander, Shirley Knight, Viveca Lindfors; Melony Mayron and Marisa Berenson — are equally convincing in this powerful story of a handful of women prisoners struggling for survival at Auschwitz. No dramatization nor factual description by a survivor can adequately recreate for others the degradation, the stench, the fear, the death that encompassed inmates of Nazi extermination camps. Despite the shaved heads and running sores, the interspersed footage of actual transport, the production can be criticized for romanticizing and minimizing Fenelon's situation. The film, written by Arthur Miller and directed by Daniel Mann, nevertheless presents the viewer with some information which has not previously beet] mentioned by American commer- cial television: • There were organized underground resistance activities in the camps. ' (Continued on Page 27) Caesarea Expedition PARIS (JTA) — Some 10,000 people marched through the center of Paris Tuesday night to protest the emergence of neo-Nazi organizations, the spread of racist theories and the lack of adequate police protection for Jewish institutions, schools and synagogues. The marchers, led by CRIF President Baron Alain de Rothschild, gathered in front of the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr. CRIF is the Representative Council of Jewish Organizations in France. Exceptionally severe police measures were taken to protect the marchers. Policemen, many carrying machineguns, were posted at most intersections and army snipers were posted on adjacent rooftops. No incidents or violence marked the march. Representatives of all political parties were present with the French presidential elections only six months away. The demonstration was called in the wake of the machinegunning of five Jewish institutions in Paris last week, including two synagogues and two schools. Neo-Nazis claimed responsibility for the attacks. French police released neo-Nazi leader Marc Fredriksen from custody Monday on grounds that they had no evidence to link him to the series of machinegun attacks. Fredriksen and five other suspects were arrested last Friday night when police raided the offices of the outlawed Federation of European Nationalist Action (FANE). On Friday morning, unidep- tified gunmen sprayed bullets into the Great Synagogue, a memorial monument to Jews deported by the Nazis, a Jewish-run children's home and the Lucien Hirsh School. The By WILLIAM SAPHIRE pre-dawn attacks caused no casual- Special to the JTA NEW YORK (JTA) — A privately-commissioned Louis ties. Harris poll, just released, shows that Americans favor U.S. another Early 'Saturday, military, economic and political support for Israel by a synagogue was riddled with bullets. greater majority than four years ago; that they reject the Anonymous telephone callers told proposition that support of Israel should be reduced to the French news media that the at- satisfy the demands of the Arab oil-producing states; and tacks were the work of the European they regard the Egyptian-Israeli peace process, with U.S. - Nationalist Fasces (FNE), a neo-Nazi participation "as beacons of hope in the Middle East." group set up by Fredriksen after The poll, which probed attitudes on virtually every FANE was banned. aspect of the Middle East situation, was conducted last July The attacks were generally be- among a 1,506 cross section of the American adult public and a separate 1,030 cross section of Jewish adults nation- lieved to have been in retaliation wide. All the respondents were interviewed in person. for beatings, administered to- American Support for Israel Growing : (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 11) Digging Up an Ancient City By PROFESSOR NORMA GOLDMAN (Editor's note: Pro;fessor Norma Goldman taught Latin and Roman culture at Wayne State Univexsity for 31 years. She is the wife of Dr. Bernard Goldman, executive director of the WSU Press. She joined the Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima this summer, sponsored by the Institute for Archeological Research of Drew University, Madison, N.J., under the direction of Dr. Robert Bull. This is the first of two artictes.) The historiam Josephus writes that Herod, confirmed as king by Caesar Augustus, built on the Mediterranean coast of Judea a new harbor city named Caesarea in honor of his patron in ,Ti=tome. He embellished it with the refinements of a Roman town, with a forum, a temple to Rome and Caesar, streets laid out in a grid of intersecting north-south, east-west roads behind the wharves and warghouses It boasted an elaborate theater overlooking the sea, a giant hippodrome for horse races, an amphi- theater for gladiatorial gameS (frowned upon by the Jewish population), baths, and an ingenious system for flushing the sewers with sea water. With a permit from the Israeli government, Prof. Robert Bull of Drew Uni- versity in Madison, N.J. has spent nine seasons- from 1971, with the help of crews of volunteers, digging out from the sandy soil along the coast this ancient har- Ruins along a Byzantine road in the Caesarea Dig. bor city. In Israel this past summer I picked fragments of Roman lamps, Byzantine glass and ancient coins out of the sifting box, as one of the 80 volunteers during the second five-week session with the Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima. What complicates the excavation is the subsequent occupation of the site by an even larger Byzantine city atop the Roman one. Subsequently an Islamic city appeared, and in Crusader times, the site became a hotly contested area with the Crusaders eventually building their fortress atop the old Roman forum area, employing as fill material the magnificent Roman columns and capitals which appear as random reinforcements for walls and harbor installations. The modern Kibutz Sdot Yam (Fields of the Sea) lies next to the excavated Roman theater, which is used during the summer for concerts and ballet. From my hilltop sifting box I gazed out over the changing sea, a permanent feature at Caesarea. The waves wash against the mod- ern breakwater, but the enormous Herodian landing stones are still visible inside the harbor. Along the coast stretching miles in each direction from the Crusader Fortress are outcroppings of ancient walls, capitals, columns, fragments of stone architecture, and north of town two aqueducts, all of which testify to a city that once held 125,000 inhabitants, increasing to 250,000 in Byzan- tine times. The archeological debris sprawls over 8,000 acres, only three of which have been excavated. As the terminal end of the cara- van routes from the Middle East, Caesarea grew rich from Mediterranean trade in exo- tic spices, dried fruits and fish, lumber, mar- ble (all imported), silver, copper, wine, a fish (Continued on Page 10)