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here are six major
productions of the
Passion Play — the
cycle of events including the
trial and crucifixion of Jesus —
performed in the United States
annually. One of them,
produced in a Florida town, has
been denounced by Florida
Jewish spokesmen.
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."

