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\\. } .... Protestant-Jewish Statement Censures ; Catholic Objections To Abortion Bill NEW YORK-"The "harsh and rabbis have expressed opposition unbending posture" of the Roman to the proposed changes In the Catholic Church against efforts to abortion law. liberalize the New York abortion Charles J, Tobin, spokesman THE ONLY ENGLISH -JEWISH WEEKLY IN R. I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. law was protested Saturday by the for the New York Stall! Catholic Protestant Council of the City of Welfare Committee lnAlbany,safd i . New York, the New York Federa he would have no comment on the tion of Reform Synagogues, ! VOL. LI, NO. I FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1967 15¢ PER COPY 16 PAGES the statement by the Protestant-Jew Association of Reform Rabbis and ish organizations. ' the New York Metropolitan Region The Joint statement said that ' of the United Synagogue of those who share concern for human ' 1 Rob Synagogue America. l lfe may sincere! y differ on the A Joint 1,000-word statement point at which life begins and "the I For Third Time said that Jewish and Protestant. conditions under which It Is theo NEW YORK-An orthodox syn support of liberalizing efforts was logically or socially allowable to , l agogue was broken Into Sunday based on the ,ame "concern for end tr." night for the third time In four human life" as Catholic opposition, The Protestant and Jewish weeks. Papers and books were and that the contemporary spirit group asserted: "We are very scattered about and$500wastaken of ecumenism had not up to this distressed by the harsh and un from a battered-In safe at Con point been reflected In the public bending posture of our Roman gregation Emunath Israel on West discussion. 1be statement was . Catholic brothers on this question. 23d Street. Introduced by the Rev. Norman It Is not that we wish them to Rabbi Meyer H. Leifer said the Vincent Peale, president of the change their basic beliefs In any break-In occurred some time be Protestant Coimcil, at a news con way, but we do wish them to respect tween 6 p.m. Sunday, when the syn ference and reaffirmed previous our beliefs based on our religious agogue was locked for the night, endorsements by Jewish and tradtdons and our consciences." and 6: 10 a.m. on Monday, when Protestant groups of the abortion The statement expreosed hope the sexton arrived. bill that was Introduced In the that "the creative use of conflict" In the two previous break-Ins Legislature by Assemblyman Al would become a positive force In the burglars had unsuccessfully bert H. Blumenthal of Manhattan. ecumenism. "We hope and con attempted to open the safe. 0 The bill seeks to broaden th~ fidently expect," lt said, that Rabbi Leifer said he thought better methods of communication the burglars were narcotic current law, which permits abor tion only when necessary to save than press conferences and pastor addicts, adding that there were al letters may emerge for dialogue many addicts In the neighborhood. the mother's life. It ""'uld Include MRS. MAX LEACH PAUL L}O:VITEN additional grounds, such as when about our differences." Each of the three entries had Dr. Peale aud other leaders ·been made through a 3-by-5-foot there was substantial risk that the woman's physical or mental did not specify what "better door, whose stained glass had been methods" they had In mind. broken In the first break-In. "We Leviten Named Chairman heal th would be Impaired by the placed a wooden door Inside the pregnancy or that the Infant would glass portion after the fl rs t be born defective. The statement episode," the rabbi said, "but For Israel Bond Campaign was regarded In part as a response they evidently had no trouble mov The appointment of Paul Levi Is treasurer of Great Scott Food to a recent pastoral letter Issued Pay Or Burn ing It." ten as general chairman of the 1967 Markets, and was co-chairman of by the state's eight Roman Catho On each entry, the burglars Rhode Island Israel Bond campaign the campaign last year. He ls a lic bishops and read at masses on have scattered papers and books and the reappointment of Mrs. Max member of the Board of Overseers Feb. 12. The letter, the first ever In Tel Aviv on the floor of the rabbi's study, Leach as Women's Division chair of the Jewi sh The ological Issued Jolntlv by the eight bishops, JERUSALEM-In case of and, In the latest ln\:ldent, they man were announced yesterday by Seminary, a member of the board urged Catholics to "do all In your fire, pull handle and pay.fire overturned his and his secretary's Judge Frank Licht, chairman of of Temple Emanu-El, and In 1965 ~r:. ti> preventdlrectatta<;kupon man. desks. the Executive Committee. Plans was chairman of the Rhode Island the lives of unborn children." That ls the situation now In In the first break-In about $60 for the current campaign will be Section of Brandeis University. According to Catholic teach Tel Aviv, where a deficit In stamps and cash was taken from made at a meeting of the com ings, the ferus Is considered a ridden Fire Department Is the petty cash drawer of Mrs. Edith mittee on Tuesday,March7,Judge Mrs. Leach Is a member of human being from the moment of charging for Its work. Dutovich's desk, the rabbi's Licht said. He pointed out that Hadassah, a past president of the conception, and Catholics who have Fees for fire-fighting secretary. She has since moved In last year's campaign $398,900 Ladles Association of the Jewish testified on the pending legislation services were established re the petty cash. In Israel Bonds were sold In Rhode Home for the Aged and a member have described abortion as cently by the Israeli Interior On Monday Jll0rnlng, keys taken Island, the largest amount since of the Sisterhood of Temple ''murder." Ministry. It said the fees would from desks on the synagogue's 1951, the year that Israel Bonds Emanu-El. Under her leadership, One of the bishops said recently cover only 5 per cent of the first floor were found next to the were first sold. the Women's Division of Israel the t support of the bill by the department's $275,000 annual safe. "It appears that they fl.rst Mr. Levi ten a graduate of the Bonds last year sold the greatest Episcopal Diocese of Albany was budget. tried to open the safe with keys," University of California, was a amount of Israel Bonds In Its "neither Chrtsdan nor reason The minimum charge Is $7 Rabbi Leifer said, "and then broke lieutenant In the U. S. N•'O'· He history. able." A number of Orthodox for a trip. Small fires cost $10 It open. Several of the keys wer, and bigger ones cost more bent.'' according to the time and equip ISRAEL ALIYAH REPRESENTATIVE ment Involved. _ The burglars al so had tried / unsuccessfully to open a safe In The chairman of the city a small closet. The safe's front firefighting service, Dr. Ylt had been torn off and there were Says ~Those Who Lived That Life zhak Reider, said bills could scuff marks on Its surface. nm to $1,000. He did not de fine the difference between big i . Rabbi Leifer said he did not be\leve the burglaries Involved In Camps Should Stiil Be Helped' and small fires, but -said the ~tl-Sem'ltlsm. "The scrolls, Insurance companies generally right next to where they made By LOIS ATWOOD "We would like them to get paid. their entrance, were tmtouched. lsrae\l arrivals are surely the accustomed to the new way of The firemen will perform Also, they did not attempt to gain most tearful In the world, an life but not to sever all con other services. "Ibey will let entrance to the main synagogue on American woman wrote home ro nection with the past," said Mr. you Into your locked home for the second floor, which Is kept her parents". The tears, however, Shadml, who had to survey Ameri $5. locked. The men must have been are those of fulfillment, of happi can apartments as part of the effort here from three to four hours. It ness, of reunion, and not the usual to build housing In Israel which Is would have taken them that long to tears of sadness. Those who come suited to the country of origin of -Yad Vashem Honors do the damage. They must have to Er.etz Israel today come fut • of those who will be living there. 1be made an abundance of noise break Idealism, like the pioneers of 50 American standard of living Is 42 In Dutch Resistance Ing open the safe. They took all years ago, according to Moshe higher than elsewhere, and "we AMSTERDAM - Netherlands the money and tore some of the Shadml, who has been helping have to take this Into considera Foreign Minister Joseph Luns at checks." Immigrants ever since the War of tion when advising Americans," he tended ceremonies at the residence The rabbi said the congregation Liberation. said. .and when building apart of Israel Ambassador Daniel Lewin had about 200 members. The Mr. Shadml comes to Provi ments for them. here In which 42 Dutch resistance police said they plan to keep the dence every six weeks as a repre Many Americans go to Israel fighters were honored by Yad synagogue· under close watch. sentative of Israel Aliyah Center because they want to bring up their Vas hem, the Israel center for In New York, to an ·office In the children In a Jewish atmosphere the documentation of the nazl holo Given Fine Collection General Jewish Committee head rather than In a secular culture.