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one of the major social issues facing
the country," said Cantor. "I did not
realize before going to Israel what
tensions this division was causing
inernally. Some feel the policies are
being jammed down their throats by
an Orthodox minority."
He said he was not tempted to
correct the distortions by the rest of
the media because his objective was
to write a "portrait of a country as
seen by its own people."
"I talked to as many ordinary
people as possible. Yet, while we did
not want political pieces, everyone is
so passionately involved n politics, it
was almost unavoidable.
"I wanted to let the people edu-
cate me . . . I listened to what they
had to say. I tried to get a sense of
what was important to them."

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Special to The Jewish News

"It makes me feel priests, the children of
ashamed to be called a darkness.
Christian."
As early as the 1950's, the
Prof. Eva Fleischer, a American Jewish Commit-
major Roman Catholic tee published a series of
theologian, spoke those line-by-line analyses of the
words earlier this month Passion Play demonstrat-
after she had viewed the ing that it is "structurally
1984 production of the flawed and is constitution-
Oberammergau Passion ally anti-Semitic." After our
Play. A professor of theol- meetings with Oberam-
ogy at Montclair State Col- mergau officials in 1977 and
lege in New Jersey, Prof. 1980, they made a number
Fleischer went to Oberam-
mergau as a member of an
interreligious delegation of Council hosts
the American Jewish
special talk
Committee.
At the request of the Cen-
Despite all its pious pre-
tensions, 'Oberammergau ter for International Secu-
has become a testament to rity, the Jewish Community
the triumph of materialism Council has scheduled a
over spiritual values. When meeting with community
I first previewed that Pas- leadership for Joseph
sion Play in 1980, I found Churba, the center's
that seven-hour production president on Tuesday.
Churba will speak on the
is tedious, monumental
bore. Its sole dramatic force "Convergence of American
derives from its medieval and Israeli Interests in Cen-
cosmology: Jesus and his tral America."
A nationally recognized
disciples are the children of
light and he is schemed authority on geopolitics,
against and finally crucified Churba is author of three
by the heavy-bearded, books and more than 150 ar-
nefarious Jews and their ticles.

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sages. But the effect re-
mains cosmetic.
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ing to the better Father
Rosner text in which Jews
are far less central? The an-
swer: money. This version
guarantees the villagers
millions of dollars on which
they live for a decade. So de-
spite their vows to God in
presenting the Passion
Play, its performance is far
more an offering to Mam-
mon.

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