THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS _
Will U.S.-Vatican Relations Spark Ties With Israel?
By DR. MARC
TANENBAUM
A Seven Arts Feature
One of the remarkable
aspects of the recent estab-
lishment of formal diploma-
tic relations between the
United States and the Vati-
can has been the muted re-
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sponse of most of the major
Jewish organizations. The
reasons for that relative si-
lence are manifold and in-
structive.
On a geo-political level,
American Jewry shares
with most fellow Americans
a profound concern over the
threat of Soviet to-
talitarianism to democratic
socieites and human rights.
The Vatican, particularly
under the leadership of
Pope John Paul II, has be-
come a major moral force
against the spread of inter-
national communism, and,
therefore both the U.S. and
world Jewry find benefit in
such alliances.
BONN (JTA) — Draft
legislation which would
provide criminal penalties,
including prison terms, for
persons who deny publicly
that the Holocaust ever oc-
curred, will be considered
by the West German parli-
ament this year, according
to Justice Minister Hans
Engelhard.
Under the proposed law,
the maximum penalty for
denying that Jews were
persecuted and systemati-
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tally killed during the Nazi
regime would be three
years' imprisonment. The
punishment would vary de-
pending upon whether the
courts found the offending
statement constituted "ap-
proval of crimes" or was
merely an "insult."
The Justice Ministry,
which drafted the legisla-
tion, is presently consulting
with the state governments
of the Federal Republic to
ensure a solid majority for
the measure. Last year, a
similar law was rejected by
the Bundesrat (upper
house) which is composed of
representatives of the fed-
eral states, on grounds that
it was too vague and could
have a negative impact on
historical research.
Existing laws allow pri-
vate individuals to sue per-
sons who deny the
Holocaust.
Attacks on IDF
in S. Lebanon
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
military spokesman re-
ported four separate attacks
on Israel Defense Force
soldiers in south Lebanon
Sunday. There were no
casualties.
Meanwhile, three Israeli
soldiers were seriously
wounded in southern Leba-
non when fire was opened
on a patrol from the side of a
road south of the Zaharani
River.
In other incidents in the
Sidon area, a mine went off
under an armored person-
nel carrier and a grenade
was thrown at an Israeli
convoy. There were no
casualties in either of the
incidents.
Schindler Hits
Reform Bias
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Rabbi Alexander Schindler,
president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congre-
gations (UAHC), has
criticized Reform congrega-
tions that "judge the eligi-
bility of a rabbi they wish to
engage first and foremost by
the fact of whether he or she
does or does not officiate at
mixed marriages."
Schindler included his
criticism in his president's
report to the 1983 UAHC
convention last November
in Houston.
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Add to that the decline
of anti-Catholicism in
America, especially since
Vatican Council II which
strongly committed world
Catholics to religious lib-
erty and improved
Catholic-Jewish relations.
With this breakthrough
in Vatican-U.S. relations
after 116 years, Jews have a
right to expect now another
breakthrough — the Vati-
can's establishing of dip-
lomatic relations with the
sovereign state of Israel.
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From the point of view of
church-state relations,
there is ground for legiti-
mate differences. Many
Protestants joined by the
American Jewish Congress
view the Holy See as an in-
tegral part of the Roman
Catholic Church; thus the
U.S. diplomatic recognition
of the Vatican is perceived
as a violation of the First
Amendment. But there is a
substantial body of schol-
arship — most notably, the
study "Vatican Diplomacy,"
which makes the case that
both historically and
theologically, the Holy See
is a "secular" arm of the
Vatican conceived as a sov-
ereign state.
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