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The oldest production in the United States is staged at Black Hills at Spearfish, S.D., where a company gives sum- mer performances. Winter per- formances are held at Lake Wales, 200 miles northwest of Miami, according to a report in the Miami Herald. The Black Hills production is based on a six-centuries-old version originated by monks in Luenen, Germany, home city `of Josef Meier, 81, producer of the Black Hills-Lake Wales version. Meier, who still plays Jesus in the drama, brought the company from Luenen to settle in Black Hills. David Mesnekoff, a Fort Lauderdale attorney and a past president of the Florida chapter of the American Jewish Committee, was quoted by the Herald as asserting that calling the Lake Wales per- formance offensive is an "un- derstatement." • Mesnekoff has seen the ver- sion at Lake Wales the past two years. He was one of 25 persons, accompanied by three journalists, making up an in- terfaith group from south Florida organized by the Committee chapter to see the play at Lake Wales. But Meier argued that "under no circumstances" could the Black Hills - Lake Wales version be considered anti-Semitic. He said his group had made "a diligent effort" to treat the subject matter with "the utmost respect." William Gralnick, the Committee regional director, said the Lake Wales version presents a stark contrast be- tween good and evil — with the Jewish foes of Jesus obviously the evil ones — which he said makes that version susceptible to implications of bigotry, add- ing that he felt the other five performances were worse. Mitchil Dabach, a Jewish educator who works with the Committee, said that because so many who see the produc- tion are lacking in biblical and historical knowledge, the per- formance is as dangerous now as it was in the Middle Ages. Reporting that he saw the version at Lake Wales, he cited the scene when members of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court, forcefully pressure Pontias Pi- late to crucify Jesus, and he said he heard spectators be- hind him say, "See, the Jews were connivers, just as they are now. Look how mean they are." The educator said this con- firmed his worst fears about people reacting to what they see on stage. Rabbi Abraham Richter, di- rector of chaplaincy services for the South Broward Jewish Federation, said the play, as well as the New Testament on which it is based, is historically wrong about such Jewish in- stitutions as the Sanhedrin. Arthur Teitelbaum, director of the Miami regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, said that since the early 1960s, he has been getting complaints that the Lake Wales version suggests that all the Jews wanted Jesus to die, that Pilate was a weak but fair ruler who was an inno- cent bystander in the crucifix- ion, and that Jesus rejected the Jewish beliefs and practices in which 'he had been raised. Christians who saw the Lake Wales version, as members of the interfaith group, differed in their evaluations. David Horner, a presbyterian radio producer, after seeing the play for the first time, said he could not come to the conclusion that the play was anti-Semitic be- cause he felt that doing so would be to judge the inten- tions of those involved in the production. But others said they felt the Lake Wales production was flawed. As a Christian, said Cindy Sirmons, the performance broke her heart because, she said, it involved a failure to present the gospel message of why Jesus died, which she said should be understood to pro- vide salvation to those who recognize they are sinners and are willing to believe that Christ's sacrifice can change their lives. A member of the Key Bis- cayne Presbyterian Church, Sirmons said the experience of seeing the Lake Wales per- formance and discussing it with Jews and others of differ- ent denominations led to a be- lief that a Passion Play was not the way to tell about Jesus. Copyright 1986, Jewish Tele- graphic Agency Saudi Report "Disinformation" New York — The Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has exposed as "disin- formation," a report in a Saudi Arabian newspaper that Bayer AG, a West German manufac- turer of chemical and phar- maceutical products, has "se- vered its links with Israel." Abraham H. Foxman, ADL's associate national director and head of the agency's interna- tional affairs division, said that the Saudi report, which was denied by Bayer, "is de- signed to transform more than 20 years of boycott failure into a disinformation propaganda triumph."