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Jewish leaders hit Reagan's
`religious intolerance' remark
New York — President
Reagan was accused of
Christianizing America, di-
viding the nation's religious
groups, and even reading
out of the democratic sys-
tem those who do not be-
lieve in religion or God.
These charges were made
by Rabbi Alexander. M.
Shapiro, president of the
Rabbinical Assembly, in re-
sponse to President Rea-
gan's ,Prayer Breakfast
statement last week in
which the President said
that politics and religion
were inseparable and that
those who disagree were
"intolerant of religion."
That criticism was echoed
by Theodore Mann,
president of the American
Jewish Congress, and other
Jewish leaders.
"Today, there are those
who are fighting to make
sure voluntary prayer is not
returned to the classrooms,"
Reagan said to some 17,000
people at the ecumenical
prayer breakfast in Dallas
during the Republican Na-
tional Convention. The
breakfast was sponsored by
Catholics, Protestants,
Jews and a Moslem, but the
mainstream Protestant
churches were quoted as
saying they had not been
asked to participate.
"The frustrating thing for
the great majority of
Americans who support and
understand the special im-
portance of religion in the
national life . . . is that
those who are attacking
religion claim they are
doing it in the name of
tolerance and freedom and
open-mindedness," the
President declared.
He asked: "Isn't the real
truth that they are in-
tolerant of religion? That
they refuse to tolerate its
importance in our lives?"
Reagan said that "if all of
the children of our country
studied together all of the
many religions in our coun-
try, wouldn't they learn
greater tolerance of each
other's beliefs? . . . If chil-
dren prayed together, would
they not understand what
they have in common and
would this not indeed bring
them closer? I submit to you
that those who claim to be
fighting for tolerance on
this issue may not' be
tolerant at all."
The President stressed
that no one religion will
ever be established in this
country. "We command no
worship," Reagan said. "We
mandate no belief." But he
stressed, "Those who be-
lieve must be free to speak
of and act on their belief, to
apply moral teaching to
public questions."
In renominating Reagan
at the Dallas Convention
Center, Sen. Paul Laxalt of
Nevada asked "What's hap-
pened to the Democratic
.Party when its own leader-.
ship refuses to let the Ohio
delegation's resolution de-
nouncing anti-Semitism
come to a vote on the floor of
a Democratic Convention?
"How shocked the happy
warrior (Al Smith) would
be, who stood $o bravely
against prejudices in the
1928 Democratic Conven-
tion, who never missed a
chance to denounce bigotry.
Shame on you, Walter Mon-
dale. What would Hubert
Humphrey say?"
Mondale, after the Demo-
cratic convention last
month, did urge the Demo-
cratic National Committee
to adopt a resoulution de-
nouncing anti-Semitism
and other forms of bigotry
which the committee's
executive did two weeks ago
by telephone vote.
Reagan's renomination
was seconded by Rep. Bobbi
Fiedler of California, the
only Jewish Republican
Congresswoman. She noted
the hope offered by the
United States to people
from many countries. "My
grandparents decided that
the unknown challenge of
the new life in the United
States would be preferable
to the grim realities of the
religious persecution which
marked their lives in the old
world," Fiedler said.
Meanwhile, Israel was
not a major topic at the con-
vention, just as it took a
back seat to other issues at
the Democratic Convention
earlier.
Observers do not expect
the Middle East to be a
major issue in the fall elec-
tion campaign because of
the absence of progress on
any Middle East issues.
Both parties adopted strong
pro-Israel planks in their
party platforms.
Israel was mentioned in
speeches at the convention.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S.
Ambassador to the United
Nations, stressed that U.S
strength is "essential to the
independence and freedom
of our allies and of our
friends." She listed several
exampleS, including, "What
would become of Israel, if
surrounded by Soviet client
states?"
Kirkpatrick also noted
that "the Reagan Adminis-
tration has prevented the
expulsion of Israel from the
United Nations." She said
the deterioration in U.S.-
Soviet relations was the
fault of the Kremlin and not
of President Reagan, and
stressed that the American
people know that Reagan
and the United States are
not the cause of "the denial
of Jewish emigration, or the
brutal imprisonment of
Anatoly Shcharansky and
Ida Nudel or the obscene
treatment of Andrei
Sakharov and Yelena Bon-
ner, or the re-Stalinization
of the Soviet Union," among
other nse.s cof thq
Rep. Jack Kemp of New
York, who headed the
foreign policy subiommit-
tee of the Platform Commit-
tee, stressed, "We will
strengthen our strategic al-
liance with our sister
democracy, Israel."
He also noted that
"whether we're upholding
the human rights of the
steel worker in Poland, the
South African black or the
Soviet Jew, the voice of
America must be, heard
throughout the world."
There was a huge demon-
stration on the floor for
Kemp by delegates promot-
ing him as the Republican,
Presidential candidate for
1988. Kemp is a favorite
among many Jews for his
strong support of Israel and
Soviet Jewry, and some
were talking about a 1988
ticket of Kemp and
Kirkpatrick.
Vice President George
Bush, in a press conference
devoted to foreign policy,
stressed that Reagan's Sept.
1, 1982, peace initiative re-
mains the "under-pinning_
of our Mideast policy."
"We've made clear that
the regional people, the
countries, must want peace,
truly want it in order to
achieve it," Bush said. "We
"Those who
claim to be
fighting for
tolerance . . . may
not be tolerant at
all."
and our allies will try to
help."
Asked whether it was not
a "shame" that so many
Americans lost their lives
as part of the multi-national
force in Lebanon, Bush re-
plied it was not a "shame"
but a "tragedy" that 'Pales-
tinian terrorists resorted to
that kind of cowardice to
kill young Americans."
Bush said the United
States went into Lebanon
along with the British,
French and Italian forces, in
an effort to bring democracy
to that country. "There are
10,000 fewer left-wing
Palestinian guerrillas, the
really extremists, moving
around Beirut as a result of
that force," Bush said.
Meanwhile, while Israeli
officials are studiously.-try-
ing not to inject themselves
into the election — the Re-
publicans are bringing
them into the campaign.
Bush, speaking to the Na-
tional Jewish Coalition,
blasted the Democrats for ,
charging that the Adminis-
tration does not have good
relations with Israel. He
quoted Premier Yitzhak
Shamir as saying that rela-
tions mete neYer, better,