THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Roman Toga-Clad Demonstrators
Disrupt Bar Kokhba Bones Burial
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Human bones, which Is-
rael's chief rabbis claim are
the remains of Bar Kokh-
- ba's warriors who died in
the revolt against Rome
nearly 1,900 years ago,
were buried in the Judean
hills Tuesday in a solemn
ceremony attended by
President Yitzhak Navon,
Premier Menahem Begin
and Ashkenazic Chief
Rabbi Shlomo Goren.
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The bones, in four flag-
draped coffins, were low-
ered into a hillside grave by
officers representing all
branches of the armed serv-
ices.
Earlier, as the party of
distinguished mourners
alighted from their helicop-
ter, they were confronted by
a group of demonstrators
garbed in Roman togas and
helmets, carrying spears
and placards protesting the
ceremony, which cost
$250,000, as a waste of
money. Police promptly tore
up the placards and hustled
the group away, but their
message got through and
the incident was broadcast
in Israel and abroad.
The bones have been a
source of controversy
since their discovery in
1961. Although the Chief
Rabbinate certified that
they were the remains of
some 215 Israelite war-
riors who died in suicidal
resistance to the Roman
Legions, there is no scien-
tific evidence to indicate
the age of the bones or to
determine conclusively
whether they belonged to
men, women or children.
Nevertheless, Begin ap-
peared to take the rabbini-
cal claim seriously. After
the army's chief chaplain
recited the prayer for the
dead and the coffins were
lowered into the grave, the
premier, addressing the
bones, declared: "We must
tell you, our mighty
forefathers, that we have
returned (to Judaea) and
will not leave."
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Warsaw Ghetto
Hero Released
PARIS (JTA) — The
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leased Wladyslaw Bartos-
zewski, a Catholic aca-
demician who aided Jews in
the Warsaw Ghetto upris-
ing in 1943, and was im-
prisoned and held without
charges under the martial
law regime earlier this
year.
Only recently the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith in New York had
asked the Polish govern-
ment to free Bartoszewski
who is a professor of history
at the Catholic University.
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