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Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Aguda Israel Party has stirred
a tempest in the Knesset by
thretening last week to quit the
unity coalition government for
what it claims is lack of con-
sideration for the concerns of Or-
thodox Jews on the part of
Labor and Likud.
Menachem Porush, one of the
Aguda's two Knesset members,
said that his party had suffered
"the last straw?' Israel Radio
reported that Aguda has been
ordered to leave the coalition by
two of its most venerable sages,
the Hasidic Rabbi of Gur and
Rabbi Eliezer Schach. They also
ordered the party's other MK,
Avraham Shapiro, to resign his
post as chairman of the
Knesset's Finance Committee.
There was no official confirma-
tion of those reports and Porush
did not specify his party's
grievances. But they are believed
to stem in part from disciplinary
action taken against him for
abusive remarks from the
Knesset floor against Knesset
speaker Shlomo Hillel. Porush
was suspended from five con-
secutive plenary sessions after
he refused to apologize to the
speaker.
Aguda's hackles were also
raised by a motion introduced in
the Knesset by Geula Cohen of
the ultra-nationalist lbhiya Par-
ty urging the government to
abolish deferral of military ser-
vice for yeshiva students. Cohen
also demanded that all women
be required to do military ser-
vice or some form of national
service. lehiya is an opposition
party.
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin, relying for the govern-
ment, cited the long-standing
status quo that relieves yeshiva
students from military duties
and exempts Orthodox women
from service. But Rabin obvious-
ly agrees in principle with Cohen
on this matter and did not con-
ceal it in his remarks, further
arousing the Aguda's anger.
The contretemps with Porush
steamed from a recent debate
over religious-secular tensions in
Israel. The Aguda MK was of-
fended by remarks by Hillel
critical of religious zealots who
have been vandalizing bus
shelters because they object to
what they consider "lewd"
advertising posters.
Porush accused the speaker of
"incitement against ultra-
Orthodox Jews" and used what
other MKs described as "un-
bridled and slanderous lan-
guage?' It was deleted from the
Knesset record but later pub-
lished in the press.
Aguda is a minor party and
the only coalition party which,
owing to it religious doctrine,
does not sit in the Cabinet.
Nevertheless, given the delicate
political balance in the coalition,
its defection could be trouble
some.
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'Ibrnoto (JTA) — The Board of
Education of Waterloo County
(Ontario,) one of the largest
school boards in Canada, last
week suspended teaching Shake-
speare's "The Merchant of
Venice" pending a decision by
the Education Ministry, or the
Ontario .Human Rights Com-
mission as to whether the
Shakespeare play is anti-
Semitic.
But the coalition of Jewish
and non-Jewish parents which
had complained to the board
that Jewish children were
taunted and harassed in classes
where the play was taught pro-
tested that the school board
went too far.
"It's censorship of the worst
kind," said Dr. Mona Zentner,
leader of the inter-faith parents'
coalition which wanted "The
Merchant of Venice" eliminated
only from the curriculum of
intermediate grades 7 to 10.
"They're finally recognizing
there's a problem but it's not
what we wanted," Zentner said.
The Board of Education voted
10 to 8 to remove the play from
the intermediate grades but also
banned it, at least temporarily,
from the higher grades. The
issue, which has been simmering
since 1966, came to a head in
Waterloo recently.
Jewish and Christian pupils
described prejudice apparently
fueled by the play in which
Shylock, a Jewish money-lender,
demands a pound of flesh from
a Christian debtor. According to
the pupils, Jewish classmates
were called names, had
swastikas carved on their desks
and had pennies tossed at them.
The Waterloo county case was
the second of its kind in Ontario.
Earlier, the Lakehead County
Board of Education removed the
play from the ninth grade cur-
riculum after parents protested.
Toledo Park
Is Dedicated
Toledo (JTA) — The Jewish
Federation of Greater Toledo has
dedicated a Holocaust Memorial
Park-featuring the sculpture "For
This the Earth Mourns." The
park was established with a
grant in memory of David Stone
by the foundation bearing his
name.