AdventfsfMdItoriai sparks strong reaction
TORONTO The Canadian Jevfifh Congress ha&> expressed jshock and dismay at the **display of bigotry^, in
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Officiafs objected to 'an editorial as well as an article entitled Bombs Over Bethlehem, both of which claimed the Jews had cifucified Christ and thus l^arvested tWir present problems in Israel.
The editoHal concluded: *']f the JelSsh people iiad accepted gratefully G-d*s gift of Jesus, and had . li'iteti^ respectfully to the wis^ counsel of this greatest of ail Jews, the whole coui^ of Jewish history would have been happier, and.-the appal-
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for<**4ld^i4<f and for main-WiiiHi HkIt traditional monotheistic faitfa,^
The wire also declared they were ?^profoundly saddened at the display of bigotry by a ^burch with whdmwe have co-operated often in the past Ion social matteni and Sabbath observance and with whom we'assumed we related in terms of equality and
MONTREAL - The Vat-ican^s refusal to recognize the^ State of Israel was disputed;by^ two Canadian Jewish' l^ders .with a .ranking representative of-the Holy See in Canada. McpilLuriiy^rsity Prof^IVvlHi^ Cotlerv" -presfdent ^ -oi^-i<h^ Canadian Jewish Congre^' and Alan. Rose^, executive vice-president of ^the CJC, expressed their views strongly at a meeting with The Mo^t Rev. Angelo :Palmas, ^he Vatican Ambassador,,at the Vatican EmbassyJn. Ottawa.
They met with Palmas to reiterate Jewish protests against the audience granted Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat by Pope John Paul U last September According to the CJC officials the Vatican stance was a signal to the PLC and the rest of the Arab world that their refusal to recognize Israel was not an impediment to their reception at the Vatican. JTA,
CJC PRESIDEKr, PHOF. IRWIN COXIER and CJC axaeiitlva vica^iraaidant Alan Roaa poaa witti tha Most Rav. itegaio JPaimaa,^
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men in the recent operation Peace for Galilee. Thetiesder Yeshiva is .a religious study-•cum-army service program combining compulsory service over a longer period of timci with religious studies; Many Of these Yeshiva groups served In large numbers in the
and idea that Peace Now holds a solution for the West Bank and its Arabs.
Amital, head of the Alon Shvut Hesder Yeshiva in. the Etzion Bloc, attempted to distance himself and the movement from Peace Now, gently suggesting that their rtish to territorial concessions on the ^Vest Bank is a
has rtevef bcein a direct reference to this facto|,ii must
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The movement aims in essence to elevate to the highest rank of Israelis values, Torat HaChdim (an ethical way of life) and peace for Israel.
This observer feels that long after the stultified resolutions of the 30th World Zionist Congress will disappear into limbo, this new' movement wiH^beteinembered.
in 1978 was a
TORONTO>-^Nazi^hunter Simon Wiesenthal has refuse^d to ■ •set foQis^lii ^i^lanadatfbr the past decade because of what he believes is the t^luctance of the Canadian government to prosecute Nazi war criminals living in Canada. <
Wiesenthal^ head of the war crimes documentation centre in Vienna, has been invited to speak by the Canadian Jewish Congress and other JewishJnstitutions since His brief visit to Vancouver in 1978,'. .r'-i-
But he will not enter^' the country and has explained - his reasons in an interview ivith the CBC and in communications with Jewish leaders in Caoftlla.
Wiesenthal. contends that despite information about known Nazi war criminals living in Canada; the government in Ottawa hasrefused to act. He decried the inertia of the government and what he called *^empty promises** by a representative of Canada's Solicitor^eneral that the Nazis would be prosecuted.
Last month, Canadian officials did move against Albert Rauqi, an alleged Nazi executioner ^who murdered Jews in Lithuania and presently lives in Toronto. After a hearing, a Canadian judge ordered Rauca extradited to West Germany where, presumably he will stand trial. But Wiesenthal was not impressed by that action.
He has pointed outthativhat was involvect was an extradition hearing, not a trial and^t^'at the impetus, came from Bonn, not from Canada. Rauca*s attorney meanwhile is appealing the extradition order. . ^ ARNOLD AGfeS
mes^iahs were ideptified by the new: mov(f*
movement, at whose birth he was- presiding would, if pressed, be ready to make concessions .for peace. • Above alU he sounded a warningsagamst any-bellerin
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Yehuda Amital: the practise of violence and along with it the rejection of reality so evident during the Yamit' evacuation; the idea that arms alone can solve all problems;
Annual review
DOWNSVIEW, Ont. -
An annual review of anti-Semitism in Canada has been announced by the League for Human Rights Of B*nai B*rith Canada.
Ted Greenfield, League chairman; said the annual review - will include a statistical survey of incidents throughout Canada, an analysis of attitudinul polls and a general analysis of anti-Sentttism in Canada, The first report, covering 1982, will be published in January^4ie said.
also urged the audience to avoid political ^implications and entangleoKnt, and to remain abdver politics. Religious Zionism views the
establishment 6T the State of mandate, direct or implicit, Israel as the beginning of the for Jordan to represent fulfilment of biblical proph- Palestinian interests in peace ecy. But how long it will take, talks with Israel.
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with Reagan,- there was no indication that the Joidanian ^r^flfonarch was willing:jpr able to join the U.S.^ E^jpt and Israel in negotations based on the Camp David accords..
It was. also not clear whether Hussein*s ^ recent consultations with PLC chief Yasser Arafat resulted in a
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"An^extremeiy important film for everyone to see about a concentration camp survivor who thinks he is a Nazi officer. A | brilliant script and piece of fiction on the Eichmann trial."
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