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Convert Is Registered as Jewess But Orthodox Agudat Israel Fights Ruling
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Jane 26, 1970-5
dare. Mrs. Zeidmann, h e said, is which will act with jet-like propul-
Milton Katz Elected Head
no more Jewish today than she sion to accelerate assimilation and
was after undergoing her original intermarriage."
of Carnegie Endowment
conversion by a Reform rabbi. Ile
The Agudat committee conclud- NEW YORK (JTA) — Milton
said the "blitz" conversion harm- ed that "The continued member- Katz, an attorney, educator and
ed both Reform and Orthodox ship of the Orthodox groups in the public official has been elected
Judaism because it was part of a Synagogue Council grants implied chairman of the board of trustees
"political deal" to mollify the NRP religious status to (the) Reform of the Carnegie Endowment for
and keep it in the cabinet.
groups, and is a disservice to the International Peace, it was an-
The rabbinical court claimed
Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israel's
united Orthodox attempt to deny nounced here.
that two of the three rabbis who
.He succeeds Whitney North Sey-
defense minister, defended Chief the Reform groups religious status
officiated at the conversion were
mour who had served as chairman
Army Chaplain Rabbi Shlomo in Israel."
not qualified "dayanim"—rabbin-
since 1958.
Goren against charges that he
Concurrently, Rabbi Bernard A.
ical judges—and therefore they
Prof. Katz is director of inter-
had violated military. regulations
Poupko, president of the Religious national legal studies at the Har-
did not comprise a properly con-
by officiating at the conversion
Zionist of America, praised the vard Law School and has been a
stituted rabbinical court. The two
of Mrs. Zeidmann.
NRP "for courageously and stead- member of the Carnegie executive
are army chaplains who assisted
In a letter published in Hatzofe, fastly pursuing their struggle for
Chief Chaplain Rabbi Shlomo
1960 and vice
the religious daily, Gen. Dayan a conversion legislator which will committee since
Goren in the conversion. Two of
said that while military regulations be fully in accordance with Jewish chairman of its board of trustees
Rabbi Goren's colleagues on the
since
1969.
by
prohibit, extracurricular work
(halakhic) law." He told the RZA
chief rabbinate of Tel Aviv, Seph-
Army personnel, the conversion of national banquet: "The very unity
ardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Joseph
Mrs_ Zeidmann could not be re- and the authentic image of the Jew
and Rabbi Shlomo Mizrachi, en-
garded as work and Rabbi Goren and Judaism is being threatened
dorsed the conversion in the bope
received no payment. Gen. Dayan by introducing multiple and halak-
said that while the conversion may hically unauthorized standards of
have provoked political consequen- conversion in the state of Israel
ces it was in itself a religious, not
. . By diluting and distorting the
a political act.
Torah essence of the Jewish per-
s
s
sonality, we are endangering the
NEW YORK (JTA)--The execu- secure, normal and historic con-
tive committee of Agudat Israel of tinuity of the Jewish people." He
' n Bible students from
America has recommended that urged the Israeli government "not
Christ:1a
the Rabbinical Council of America to accept or to recognize any con-
Michigan. Illinois arid Ohio, in
and the Union of Orthodox Jewish version to Judaism which is not
a four-day conference this week-
Congregations quit the Synagogue performed in accordance With
end at Spring Arbor (Mich.) Col-
Council of America because of its Jewish law."
lege, placed emphasis on their
alleged failure to "contain the ex-
dedication to prophecy and their
pansoinist aims of the Reform and
conviction that Israel must be re-
Conservative
movements." Agudat
built and fully redeemed, especi-
Israel• acted in the wake of the
ally as envisioned in Ezekiel.
Orthodox conversion of Mrs. Helen
A distinguished guest at the con-
Zeidmann.
ference. Frank Shallieu of New
York. reported on the success he
According to Agudat Israel, Mrs.
is attaining with several associ-
Zeidmann's second conversion was
ates in reconstructing what he
not a victory' for Orthodoxy but "a
terms "The Third Temple" as
setback in the efforts to revise
Israel's Who Is A Jew? law to con-
envisioned in F:ekigl.
Ben-Gurion confers with Frank
form with traditional halaka, be-
Quoting Ezekiel 43:8—"in their
setting of their threshold by My Shall:en, American Bllile student
cause many may be deluded to
threshold, and their door post by and teacher-
believe that the crisis has been
s
solved."
My door post" — Shallieu said
that a life's dream will soon come Israel must be redeemed, their
Agudat Israel's executive com-
true when he and his co-workers determination to assist in secure mittee continued: "The victory
will reconstruct the Ezekiel ing widest support for such views. paeans over Mrs. Zeidmann's
Devout Christians, the two Orthodox conversion cover up the
Temple in strict accordance with
leaders of the Christian Bible stu- fact that the recently enacted
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He revealed that this has been dents said they did not aim
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whose Staten Island, N.Y. home, they wished to
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the
future
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On their visit with David Ben-
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Gurion in his Tel Aviv tiome three
become the capital of the world
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occurred before the death of Mrs.
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over the plan they unveiled. strictly voluntary. He is an elder
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Mrs. Helen
Zeidmann, American-born convert
to Judaism, was officially regis-
tered as Jewish, June 18, despite
the fact that the supreme rab-
binical court declared her conver-
sion, according to Orthodox rites,
invalid.
that their action would meet the
objections of the supreme rabbin-
ical court. A number of rabbis as-
sociated with the ultra- Orthodox
Agudat Israel denounced the con-
version on grounds that Mrs. Zeid-
mann did not have sufficient pre-
paration for admission to Judaism.
Meanwhile Shalom Cohen, a
Knesset member representing the
new left Haolam Hazeh faction,
asked the defense minister to ap-
point a board of inquiry to deter-
mine whether Chief Chaplain
Goren's role in the Zeidmann con-
version amounted to "military
interference in civilian affairs."
Cohen also charged that Mrs.
Zeidmann's speedy conversion
amounted to discrimination against
other converts who are forced by
the rabbinate to undergo a much
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