Friday, July 5, 1985 11 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Al's Foreign Car Service bruce m. weiss Specialist in Jewelers 26325 Twelve Mile Rd. • Toyota • Volkswagen • Datsun • Audi Fox • Honda Cars Southeast corner Northwestern Behind Gabe's Fruits In The Mayfair Shops our august Emperor, is the only one which has been given to us to express to the philanthropists of all countries, and notably to the ecclesiastics, all the senti- ments of gratitude with which our hearts are penetrated toward them and their predeces- sors." The assembled delegates passed the following resolutions: "Resolved, That the deputies from the Empire of France and from the Kingdom of Italy at the Hebrew Synod penetrated with gratitude for the successive benefactions of the Christian clergy in the past centuries in favor of the Israelites of the different parts of Europe; full of acknowledgements for the recep- tion which the different Pontiffs and many other ecclesiastics have given at different times to the Israelites of different coun- tries where barbarity, prejudice and ignorance united, perse- cuted and expelled the Jews from the bosom of society. "Resolved, That the expres- sion of our sentiments shall be placed on the records of the day, that it may ever remain as an authentic testimony of the gratitude of the Israelites of this assembly for the benefactions which the generations which have preceded them have re- ceived from the ecclesiastics of the different countries of Europe." We might supplement this authoritative statement by cit- ing many instances of the famil- iar friendship which has existed between the Roman Pontiffs and distinguished Hebrews in Rome. During the revival of letters in the West learned Jews were especially patronized by the Popes because of their oriental scholarship; while the Pontiffs — especially Boniface IX, Julius III, Martin V and Paul III — selected for their trusted physi- cians men of Hebrew faith and race. Granting the Catholic griev- ance that Jews fail to accept Catholic allies throughout the that the Catholic Church failed miserably to prevent untold tragedy by permitting encyclicals like those of Pope Innocent IV and Cardinal Lorenzo Ganganelli to remain mere parchments in the Vati- can's archives. The publication and spread of these documents would have gained for Jewry Cathlic allies throughout the world who undoubtedly would have defended innocent victims when they were brutally and mercilessly attacked during the spread of the ritual murder libels. Because this libel is still being spread in supposedly civilized countries like Ger- many, it is perhaps not yet too late for the Catholic Church to compile the various sentiments by her Pontiffs on Jewish issues and to make them a matter of public record so that it may truly be said that Catholicism has come to the front as the de- fender of truth and justice and the defier of calumny, even when it is spread about the blasphemed Jews. Ruling To Hud Jews? New York (JTA) — The Sup- reme Court ruled today by an 8-1 vote that a Connecticut state law protecting the right of em- ployees to absent themselves from work on their Sabbath is unconstitutional. But' a Jewish expert on such laws said in New York that the ruling seemed un- likely to affect similar laws pro- tecting observant Jews in other states. Dennis Rapps, executive di- rector of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA), provided that analysis. COLPA and the American Jewish Congress acted as attorneys for Donald Thornton, a former store man- ager for one of the Caldor chain stores in Connecticut. The Jewish organizations entered the case when the state Sup- reme Court ruled it unconstitu- tional in 1983. Rapps said the Jewish organ- izations entered the case at that point, seeking a Supreme Court ruling because, though Thornton was a Presbysterian and had sought to be off work on Sun- days, the issue involved similar laws in many states under which Jews have such protec- tion. He said the Supreme Court, in its ruling last week, focused on the "absolute nature" of the Connecticut law, meaning that the Connecticut law had no provision, as do all other such state laws requiring the em- ployer to try to make "reason- able accomodation" to such re- quests for Sabbath absences. Under that clause, an employer may require a Sabbath observer to work on his or her Sabbath if his or her absence would create severe hardship for the em- ployer's business. Joint Committee Taps Littell Washington — Rev. Franklin Littell, founder and honorary chairman of the Anne Frank In- stitute. in Philadelphia, has been selected by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council as one of the five American mem- bers of the new American/ German Joint Committee. The committee, which was set up by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and U.S. officials, will enable scholars from both countries to meet several times a year to study the lessons of the Holocaust and explore their ramifications. 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