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. Friday, December 26, 1969-3 - — 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. Official Agency U OMEGA GIFT & FRUIT BASKETS for a lifetime of proud possession Rodnick Bros. 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