Editors of Jewish Student Papers
Set Sights for Developing Service
Friday, March 19, 1971-5
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Russian Immigration Raises
Call for Conversion Ref orur
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Fifty edit- mated. "Jewish news is not
Custom, Fate's of Quo ta 4-karizI9 Aids
ors and staff members represent- limited to what local community
giv-
way
toward
long
would
go
a
JERUSALEM
(JTA)—Basic
re-
organizations
do
but
should
be
ing Jewish publications on 37 col-
lege campuses in the United seen as permeating all community forms that would modify the rigid ing Israelis freedom of choice in
control exerted by Israel's Ortho- religious matters. The team,
States and Canada met here last activities," he said.
dox Chief Rabbinate in personal which includes one rabbi, wants
weekend in the first conference
"The local school budget is as areas such as marriage, divorce to amend Israeli laws to permit
sponsored by the Jewish Student
important to the Jews in that com- and conversions are under serious
civil marriages for persons who
Press Service.
munity as is the developments in consideration in high official wish them and to give non-re-
The three-day conference was the Middle East. At the same time,
ligious persons recourse to civil
called by JSPS leaders to deal events in the Middle East in- circles.
courts for divorce.
The need to reform conversion
with problems common to the fluence the lives of the Jews in
They also want to end the Or-
procedures
has
become
a
matter
publications. Workshops were held your local community. As editors,
in covering Jewish news, layout you have to know how to relate of special urgency in view of the thodox monopoly of religious life
in Israel by extending equal rights
and typography.
and interlink local and interna- still small but growing immigra-
tion of Jewish families from the to Reform and Conservative Juda-
tional
affairs,"
he
said.
The conference approved plans
Soviet Union and other Eastern ism. The proposals will be dis-
for the formation of a JSPS
Too often, he pointed out, the European countries, many of them cussed at the forthcoming Labor
governing board to be composed student newspapers are more con- with a non-Jewish spouse.
Party convention. The religious
of student editors, and of an ad- cerned with abstract theorizing
establishment is expected to offer
The Sephardic chief rabbi, Itz- desperate opposition to these pro-
visory committee to be composed than with the living news of the
of professional Jewish journalists Jewish people. "What happens in hak Nissim. has drafted new con- posals.
WE WILL LOAN YOU A
and interested Jewish communal your community is frequently version guidelines which reported-
HEARING AID WHILE
leaders.
ignored but this is the basis for ly would abolish the compulsory
YOURS IS BEING REPAIRED
Norman Podhoretz, editor of real reporting." He invited stu- one-year waiting period that pro-
Commentary magazine, told the dents to contribute articles to the spective converts must endure be-
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conference, "The primary respon- JTA on developments in the stu- fore their applications are acted
sibility of the Jewish journalist is dent community on-and-off-campus. upon. Rabbi Nissim also report-
edly favors continuation of the
not to be an apologist for the
Sidney Zion, editor of Scan- "Vienna conversions" but under
My kids give me orders and
Jewish people." Podhoretz stated
my mother-in-law gives me
my;
that the Jewish apologist "who lan's Monthly magazine, at- new, properly constituted rabbini-
tacked what he termed "fellow cal courts, under the supervision
orders. For the best in ad-
often proclaims himself to be a
of a rabbi sent from Israel for the
_, t1
vertising why don't you give
friend of his people, is often the travelers of the Left" who be-
came antagonistic to Israel purpose.
greatest enemy" of his people.
me your order? Call
TEL-TWELVE OPTICAL CENTER
after the Six-Day War. The fel-
Murry Koblin Adv.
Most Soviet Jews en route to
He added that the greatest
low travelers, he added, "could
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Israel stop off at Vienna where
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danger facing the Jewish com-
not face the fact of Israel's
PONTIAC
MALL OPTICAL CENTER
non-Jewish
members
of
their
munity today is "the indiscrim-
victory." They also do not
families
—
mainly
wives
—
have
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inate rhetoric and ideology" of
realize, he said, that the state
been undergoing conversion by
what is widely known as the
was won through "real revolu-
the local beth din (religious
New Left.
tion in the streets."
court) in order to guarantee the
Murray Zuckoff, Jewish Tele-
The JSPS was launched last Jewish status of their children
graphic Agency news editor,
when they arrive in Israel. Is-
described the worldwide service November to coordinate and dis-
rael's Orthodox establishment
tribute
news
of
the
activities
of
of this news agency and dis-
has split over whether to recog-
cussed the various ways in which independent on and off-campus nize the Vienna conversions.
news concerning the Jewish com- Jewish student groups and news-
The National Religious_ Party is
munities is gathered and dissem- papers in the U.S. and Canada
which, according to David Kauf- ready to accept them in order to
man, co-editor of the JSPS, have expedite imigration even if they
Purim Brought to College; a combined press run of 300,000 do not satisfy all Orthodox de-
copies a month.
mands. But the Israeli rabbinical
Poor Are Beneficiaries
courts have denounced tha con-
Last
December,
JTA
President
BROOKLYN (JTA) — Rabbi
versions and have charged that
Frank A. Fischer of Bnai Brith Robert H. Arnow announced that some of the rabbis performing
Hillel Foundation, reported hun- JTA concluded an agreement with them are not "qualified" — mean-
dreds of students, faculty, Jews JSPS to provide the student pub- ing Orthodox.
and non-Jews, blacks and whites lications affiliated with JSPS
Rabbi Nissim's proposals, sub-
at Brooklyn College were made with news about the Jewish com-
mitted to the chief rabbinate coun-
conscious of the celebration of munity.
These publications cover the en- cil may satisfy the rabbinical
Purim.
Hillel students there distributed tire spectrum of political think- courts. But most observers here
Shalakh Manot gifts throughout the ing within the 'Jewish community believe they are doomed to failure
campus, Whenever faced with a from left to right, from Socialist- as long as the rabbis insist that
conversions must comply strictly
question of surprise, "what is Zionist to Orthodox.
Imp.
tr d
Purim?" they took the opportun-
Other speakers at the confer- to Orthodox interpretation of hala-
cha
(religious
law)
and
must
be
frtmi
nity to hammer away at the theme ence included McCandlish Philips
of anti-Semitism and its corrosive of the New York Times, I. L. motivated by religious convictions.
anada's
Meanwhile, a special "think
effect not only upon the Jews but Kenen of the Near East Report,
Oldest
upon a total community.
Joe Flaherty of the Village Voice tank" established by Israel's
Labor Alignment has reportedly
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Storms in Israel
Ruin Citrus Crop
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estimated yet. Snow covered Up-
per Galilee, parts of the Judea
and the Negev, making roads im-
passable. Safad in Galilee was cut
off for several hours. Jerusalem
had less than an inch of snow but
slippery roads made driving hazar-
dous. The Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-
way was closed for several hours.
Despite the bad weather, crowds
watched from the slopes of Mt.
Carmel as the Liberian flag
Greek freighter Clipper was blown
ashore on the beach north of
Haifa. A tug sent to the rescue also
was grounded. Three foreign tank-
ers were blown ashore on the coast
between Ashdod and Ashkelon.
Ships waiting to enter port put to
sea to avoid grounding. Heavy
winds and hail damaged citrus
groves and vegetable fields all
over the country. Agriculture min-
istry experts will try to assess the
damage when the weather im-
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