Defense College Sends
Students, Staff to Israel

(Direct JTA. Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV — Forty-five students
and staff members of the United
States National Defense College
arrived here Monday for a five-day
visit and meetings with top Israeli
military and civil officials. The
group, headed by Air Force Maj.
Gen. William Greer, includes rep-
resentatives of 13 branches of the
U.S. armed forces and senior civil
servants.
They met on arrival with Israel's
chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Chaim
Bar-Lev; Brig. Gen. Aharon Yariv,
chief of intelligence; and with the
head of the military government
and regional security department,
Col. Shlomo Gazit.

Compulsory Draft Suspended at Conservative Seminary

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Rabbi Routtenberg's committee
was composed of members of the
seminary administration, the Rab-
binical Assembly and the student
body of the rabbinical school of
the seminary which provides rab-
binical training for the Conserva-
tive movement.
Rabbi Eli Bohnen, president of
the Rabbinical Assembly, had pro-
posed that chaplains of all faiths
cease to be part of the military
establishment so that they can
counsel servicemen according to

conscience, not military rules. In
his president's report to 500 dele-
gates he proposed that "selective
conscientious objection" should be
recognized as valid for exemption
from the draft.
He told his rabbinical colleagues
that as part of the military, the
chaplain was "unable to question
the premises on which war is
fought," adding "what is he to say
to a pilot or bombardier who tells
him he has been ordered to drop
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that women and children" will be

Reform Leaders Back 'Poor People's Vigil'

NEW YORK (JTA) — About
100 rabbis and lay leaders of the
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the auspices of the commission
on social action of Reform Juda-
ism, voted Monday to endorse Dr.
Martin Luther King's "Poor Peo-
ple's Campaign," designed to force
Congress to ake adequate action
to combat poverty.
Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch, direc-
tor of the religious action center,
presented the Reform movement's
position paper on Dr. King's cam-
paign, to be initiated April 22 in
Washington. Dr. Hirsch recom-
mended support in principle but
was reserved about Dr. King's
method in carrying out his non-

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killed. The changing nature of
war, he declared, has made it im-
perative "that we rabbis join with
our counterparts in other faiths"
to re-examine the role of the
clergy in relation to the military.
He stressed that he did not oppose
sending spiritual advisers to the
men in service, asserting that
fighting men must be served
whether or not one believes in the
war they are fighting.

violent campaign in the light of
pressure fr o m black militants.
"Should Negro militants somehow
gain control of the vigil we are
not prepared to give the endorse-
ment carte blanche," he said.

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Rockefeller Urges
Arabs Accept Israel

NEW YORK—In an address at
the campaign dinner of the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New
York, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
urged the Arabs to accept Israel
as "a fact of life." He said Israel's
recognition as a permanent state
would result in a lasting peace in
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