Orthodox Leaders Hit Reform Body for Taking 'Their Version' to Israel

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, November 20, 1964

Other appeals were made to the gram of educational expansion, so
Rabbi Mordecai Kienblum, pres-
LONG BEACH, N.Y. (JTA)—The
Soviet Union to restore full re- that all-day schools will become a
heads of two Orthodox Jewish or- ident of the RZA,. charged Reform
common and accepted pattern of
ganizations assailed the leaders of Jewish leaders with violating ligious and cultural freedom to instruction for the bulk of Jewish
Jews; to Congress to relax immi-
Reform Judaism for attempting to "their pledge to refrain from any
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youth in the United States.
introduce "their interpretation of campaign to introduce their inter- gration quotas; to the United Na-
He added that "If the welfare
tions to protect the territorial in-
pretation
of
Judaism
in
Israel.
Judaism" into Israel.
tegrity and independence of Israel, fund leaders continue to maintain
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Addressing the 55th convention They divide Israel along deeply and to the UN Economic and Social an attitude of aloofness and apathy
emotional religi5us lines."
On New or Existing Homes
of the Religious Zionists of Ameri-
Council to oppose any manifesta- to the financial problems which
ca, Rabbi Israel Miller, president
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At the concluding session of
tions of anti-Semitism in any part confront the all-day schools, the
of the Rabbinical Council of Amer-
the convention Sunday, the dele-
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Religious Zionists will be com-
of the world.
gates elected a presidium of
ica. said that "Reform Judaism is
pelled against their better judg-
Rabbi
Mordecai
Kirshblum,
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undermining the religious unity of
three members to head the or-
ment to seek federal assistance
outgoing president of the Relig-
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and
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in
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ious Zionists, condemned "the
They are Rabbi Hershel Schacter
attempting to import the American
915 First National Bldg., Oct. 26
serious inroads of assimilation in Washington."
brand of Reform Judaism into
of the Bronx, chairman; Dr.
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Maurice S. Sage of New York,
Israel."
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life."
and
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of
Reform Judaism, he said, "will
He stressed that "the survival of
Chicago.
not strike roots in Israel, but can
a vibrant and enduring Judaism is
only serve as a divisive factor in
In his acceptance address, Rabbi greatly menaced by the ever-grow-
endangering the unity of the Schacter appealed to the State and ing assimilatory trends which char-
State."
Defense departments to use their acterize the mainsprings of the
influence "to bring about a cessa- Jewish community in the United
tion of all types of discrimination States."
-Austrian Jews Honor
against members , of the armed
Rabbi Kirshblum pointed out
forces in Libya who are of the that "a sound approach to counter-
2 Fighters of Nazisin
Jewish fa it h."
act and arrest this corrosive de-
VIENNA (JTA) — Gold medals
A resolution adopted by the 800 velopment of assimilation is to
for outstanding achievements in delegates called upon the govern- stress and bolster Jewish religious
the fight against anti - Semitism ment to cancel all aid to the Arab education on the highest levels."
and neo-Nazism were awarded by
Saturday, Nov. 21
states "unless they abandon all The leaders of American Jewry
the Federation of Jewish Com- threats and boycotts against the and religious Zionism. he declared,
munities here to Anton Proksch„!
must undertake a' vigorous pro-
state of Israel."
Austria's minister of social affairs,
and Prof. Franz Goebhard of Graz
University.
The awards were given at the
Austrian Jewish Community's an-
nual observance of Crystal Night,
the 1938 night of horror when the
Nazis initiated their full-scale im-
plementation of the Hitlerite pro-
gram for annihilation of Jewry.
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