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is is primarily a reaction to
Christian anti-Judaism
and antisemitism.) The
Christian side • carries
moral scars and moral
afflictions that are not
found on the Jewish side.
It follows that the
Jewish-Christian dialogue
and relationship will ex-
hibit both sameness of
motivation and difference
of motivation. For Jews,
among the major questions
are: What can we, as Jews
and as Americans, con-
tribute to human under-
standing and wellbeing,
including the wellbeing of
the Christian community
and of our • country? But
also, what are we obliged
to do to secure and main-
tain our own rightful
interests and integrity
along with other religious
and ethnic minorities?
For Christians, among
the major questions are:
What can we, as Christians
and as Americans, con-
tribute to human under-
standing and wellbeing,
including the wellbeing of
the Jewish community and
of our country? But also,
what are we required to do
to atone for and to over-
come our woeful Christian
heritage of antisemitism
and anti-Judaism?
To bring together the
exposition thus far: The
identity of Jews in
America involves three
basic elements: peopleness
(a Laos) a faith within that
peopleness, yet a faith that

is not an absolute condi-
tion of Jewishness; and
Americanness.
The entire Eckardt ap-
proach demands serious ap-
plication to the ecumenical
theme if ecumenism is to pro-
sper.
An important footnote in
the Eckardt volume refers to
a famous friend of the Jewish
people whose studies of the
effects of religious bigotries
and condemnations of race
hatred, especially of Jews,
remain inerasable. Eckardt
makes this reference to the
late James Parkes in his
footnote:

The late James Parkes
used to refer to the spel-
ling "anti-Semitism" as
"pseudo-scientific mumbo
jumbo." There is no such
thing as a campaign
against "Semitism." Since
"anti-semitism" is not a
scientific word, it deserves
neither a capital nor a
hyphen. "Antisemitism" is
possessed of a single and
singular meaning: enmity
to Jews as Jews (Juden-
feindschaft).
There is much to be
learned from the comments
on secularism and the famous
Christian's ecumenism. Per-
haps the utilization of the
Parkes spelling suggestion
will even encourage his way
of referring to antisemitism.
The Lamm and Eckardt
ideas become ideals and both
enrich the studies conducted
to secularism and
ecumenism.

Report Calls Argentina
Still Anti-Semitic

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New York (JTA) — Despite
Argentina's shift to a
democratic regime, anti-
Semitic propaganda is still
prevalent and used by right-
wing elements as a tool to
undermine the new govern-
ment, according to a report
last week released by the
American Jewish Committee.
Jacob Kavadloff, author of
the report titled, "The Jewish
-Invasion, A Case History of
Anti-Semitic Propaganda in
Argentina," states that the
Argentine media have dis-
seminated many "bizarre
falsehoods" about alleged in-
ternational Jewish conspir-
acies against Argentina.
Kovadloff, who is director
of South American Affairs of
AJC's International Rela-
tions Department, cited a re-
cent example involving a sup-
posed "Jewish plot" to col-
onize Patagonia, Argentina's
sparsly populated southern
region. He chronicles the
following events:
Last January and again in
March, a major Argentine
news agency distributed a
story saying that disguised

Israeli explorers were survey-
ing a region of Patagonia for
the settlement of 10,000
Israeli and 30,000 Soviet
Jews over the next 10 years.
The story alleged that this
project was approved by the
national and local govern-
ments.
Several influential papers,
some well-known vehicles for
right wing anti-Semitic pro-
paganda, publicized the story,
using headlines such as "Pat-
agonia—the New Palestine."
Representatives of the
Delegacion de Asociaciones
Israelitas de la Argentina
(DAIA), the umbrella organi-
zation of Argentina's Jewish
community, were unable to
uncover any information
regarding the source or the
validity of the original report.
The Patagonia controversy
was not new, the AJC report
pointed out. It dated back to
1939, when it was believed
Nazi Germany planned to
detach Patagonia from Ar-
gentina as a site for future
colonization. This idea was
revived in 1971 by Walter
Beveraggi Allende.