French-Built Gunboats F rozen by Embargo
NEW YORK (JTA)—An official the fact that in the 15 years of ex- of the Orthodox Mizrachi-Hapoel
of the Rabbinical Assembly, the istence of the Presidents' Confer- Ilamizrach, who served a one-year
international association of Con- ence, it has never had a Conserv- term.
Rabbi Kelman said that he and
servative rabbis, disclosed that the ative or Reform organizational
Rabbi Ralph Simon, Rabbinical
association was conferring with president as chairman. He said
Assembly
president, were author-
that
except
for
three
Bnai
Brith
leaders of American Reform Jud-
ized at a meeting last Tuesday
aism and with the Conservative presidents and a Reform rabbi
of the Assembly's administrative
congregational organization on the who was, at the time, president of
committee, to confer on the mat-
question of continued membership the American Jewish Congress, the
ter with the presidents of the
chairmen
have
been
Orthodox
in the Conference of Presidents
United Synagogue of America,
leaders.
of American Jewish Organizations.
the Conservative congregational
Dr. William A. Wexler, Bnai
body, and with the presidents of
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive Brith international president, was
the (Reform) Union of American
vice president of the Rabbinical elected laj,t week to a one-year
Assemik, said the development term as chairman, succeeding Hebrew Congregations and the
(Reform) Central Conference of
stemmed from dissatisfaction over Rabbi Herschel Schacter, president
American Rabbis.
Lunch-Hour Talmu d Study Program
. NEW YORK (JTA)—A lunch-hour
program for the study of Talmud, !
held daily at the conference room
of g Israe l of America in
lower Manhattan, which began six
months ago with three participants,
now attracts around 20 profes-
ch da y,
sionals
according to the Orthodok agency. !
The men take part in a program I
initiated several decades ago in
which the same page of the Tal-
mud is studied by Jews through-
out the world on a specific day.
Lot G
Northland
Agudath Israel officials said that
while there are many such study
groups meeting throughout the
country during evening hours, the
lunchtime study group represent-
ed an innovation. The lecturer is
an ordained graduate of the Mes-
ivta Torah Vodaath of Brooklyn
who is an electrical engineer in
the city government. The officials
said that the news of the city hall
area program had brought in-
quiries from Jews in other busi-
ness neighborhoods.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rabbinical Assembly Ponders Whether
to Remain in Presidents' Conference
He stressed that the Rabbinical
Assembly action was not to be con-
sidered "in any way" as a reflec-
tion on Wexler, for whom, he said,
there was the highest regard. He
added that he and Rabbi Simon
were in contact with the other
Conservative and Reform leaders
to determine what action should
be taken on the issue.
The conference was set up in
1955 as a coalition organization of
the leaders of 23 national Jewish
organizations for cooperative ac-
tions on matters affecting the se-
curity and well-being of Jews in
.Israel and elsewhere.
PARIS (JTA)—The 250-ton gull- ,
boat Eilat was launched at Cher-
bourg Dec. 16 for the Israel Navy
but it is still uncertain whether she
and her four French-built sisters
will ever fly the Israel flag.
As matters stand, the five speedy
craft are "frozen" under the em-
bargo on arms to Israel imposed
by former President de Gaulle and
continued by President Pompidou.
The Eilat is the last of 12 gun-
boats ordered by Israel in 1966,
seven of which were delivered
before the Six-Day War and the
embargo. All 12 have been paid
for in full. They are powered by
German-made engines and arm-
ed with Italian guns and Israeli
missiles. They have a speed of
40 knots (46 land miles per hour).
Five Israeli naval crews of 33
men each have been waiting in
Cherbourg for months to take over
the gunboats. A large colony of
Israeli engineers, naval advisers
and other personnel and their fam-
ilies, numbering between 200.300
persons, have been living in Cher-
bourg for three years while the
boats were under construction.
Most of them are quartered in
houses built especially for them by
the shipyard, which had hoped for
ts s for an additional 12 gun-
io rodaer.
A number of the Israelis were
expected to return home and the
future of the boats is obscure. A
spokesman for the Israel Embassy
in Paris said that there were no
plans to sell them.
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