Rabbinical Council President Condemns Anti-Autopsy Rally: `Utirepresentative of Orthodox' NESii YORK (JTA) Rabbi Zev New York Criminal Court Judge Segal of Newark, president of the Louis A. Cioffi released the stu- Rabbitucal Council of America (Or- dents for a hearing but denied a thdoxj, condemned a demonstra- request by Assistant District Attor- tion by some 10,000 Orthodox Jews. ney Kenneth Gribetz to set bail. many of them in Hasidic garb, in They. were arrested for allegedly front of the Israel Consulate here conducting demonstrations outside June 12, in protest against what the Israel Discount Bank, Hadas- they said were enforced autopsy sah headquarters and Korvett's de- procedures in Israel. partment store. "These demonstrators do not ren- In Jerusalem last week, an up- resent the O _ rthodox community," roar broke out in the Knesset when Rabbi Segal said. "The larger mas- it rejected a series of motions by ses of our people look with dis- Orthodox parties to debate the is- favour upon them and dissociate sue of autopsies. themselves from them." The religious bloc consisting of Rabbi Segal regretted the tim- the National Religious Party and ing of the demonstration, say- the Poale Agudat Israel, both ing it came at a time when members of Premier Golda Meir's Israel is faced with physical dan- coalition government, and the ger from an enemy whose pur- Agudat Israel, charged that over pose is to destroy the land and the past 20 months, 874 "illegal" the people." All Jewry must autopsies were performed at four unite behind Israel, he said. Israeli hospitals. "In a democratic society," he They claimed that such autop- added, "every one has the privil- sies were in one out of every four ege of demonstrating for his ideas, deaths. But the Knesset turned but the world at large should be down three agenda motions on the fully aware of how small a num- subject and voted 32-9 not to refer ber these demonstrators truly rep- the issue to a Knesset committee. resent." Demonstrators filled the side- t Religious members shouted cita- walk on Fifth Ave. near the mid- ( ions from the Bible and Halakha religious law) back up Manhattan consulate on East 70th their contention that to autopsies St. with police closing the block were a "desecration." Their legal to traffic for the demonstration. case was based on a report by the Leaflets distributed by the demon- controller's office which cri- strators said the protest was spon- state the way some autopsies sored by the American Committee ticized were performed. for Safeguarding Human Dignity in The report said that in some Israel. Speakers denounced autopsy pro- cases no physician's signature was found on instructions to perform an cedures in Yiddish at the rally, which lasted about three hours. autopsy. But Minister of Health The demonstration followed months Israel Barzilai said that even in of newspaper, poster and pamphlet cases where a document lacked an campaigning. Signs were stenciled official signature, it didn't mean on sidewalks and pavements to an- that doctors picked up their scal- nounce the demonstration. pels and performed autopsies on a w himsical basis. Orthodox Jews, particularly said that a new system Hasidim, have accused the Israel to Barzilai supervise post-mortems government of permitting autop- be instituted on the basis would of the sies without consent of the fam- recommendations of a committee ily of the deceased. Autopsies of o two doctors and a lawyer. This can be performed in Israel hospi- however, did not satisfy the Ortho- tals only after three signatures dox. who have been campaign- are obtained from the hospital ing to abolish long autopsies. In the director and qualified sicians in the two event of foul phy- play voting, the religious parties were rut- or a menace to public health. An supported by the Gahal e (He Free e Israeli consulate spokesman said Liberal alignment) and th The Independent he met with the demonstrators Center faction. Liberal faction found the whole and would convey their views to matter distasteful and walked out the government. of the chamber before the vote. Earlier in the week, 15 Jews, who said they were students at the United Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn, were arraigned on char- ges of defacing buildings with anti_ autopsy posters and painted pro- tests. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 20, 1969-5 Work in Beautiful Birmingham .. . 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