Jewish Conservative Backlash Poses
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MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — Align-
ment with ultra-conservatives can-
not be the answer of the Jewish
community to the ominous threat
which the New Left poses to Jew-
ish survival in America as well
as in Israel, Rabbi Louis Bern-
stein, first vice president of the
Rabbinical Council of America,
declared in addressing 500 dele-
gates at the council's convention.
While the New Left constitutes
a great social and physical danger
to the Jewish community in the
United States "it would be the
height of folly on our part to ex-
pect that a backlash toward the
right by the Jewish community
would solve our problem. On the
contrary, it would only encourage .
growing defections of our youth
from the Jewish community,"
Rabbi Bernstein said. "We must
not be backed into a corner of
blind apologetics for the status
quo, or hysterical flag-waving.
Such blind expediency can only
backfire and is morally bankrupt."
What is needed, Rabbi Bern-
stein continued, is a convincing
demonstration "on our part that
Jews are not wedded to any
`establishment' but that it wel-
comes creative and constructive
'discontent—the very hallmark of
all religion. We must battle
fearlessly against the idolization
of any particular ideology and
must muster the moral courage
to criticize failings encountered
in all installations."
At another session which 'was
dedicated to Jewish education,
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Bergman, pres-
ident of the National Council of
Torah Education, assailed ."the
continued failure of the Jewish
federations and welfare funds to
reorder their priorities to give
substantial and meaningful sup-
port to Jewish education." Dr.
Bergman appealed to all the mem-
bers of the RCA to mobilize all
political forces to encourage the
adVancement of government aid to
all religious schools.
State legislatures throughout the
country were urged by Rabbi
Pesach Levovitz, past president of
the Rabbinical Council, to "review
and to revise the permissive abor-
tion laws which have been en-
acted."
He stressed that This was not
an effort to impose Jewish reli-
gious law upon the general society
but an expression of anxiety over
the "general deterioration of moral
values in our society, of which
permissive abortion is a signi-
ficant symptom."
Rabbi Levovitz declared that
abortions have already assumed
"epidemic proportions," and
noted that in NeW York City
alone, "over 100,000 unborn
children have been aborted since
the liberalized law went into
effect last July 1."
He asserted that most of these
abortions were dictated by "con-
sideration of convenience, not of
health."
Castigating the daily press for
running advertisements which offer
easy abortion and lax state laws
which legitimatizes permissive
abortions, Rabbi Levovitz declared:
"We call upon the legislatures to
submit their abortion statutes to
a serious evaluation in view of
the experiences of several states
during the past year. We call upon
Jewish 'Peace Corps
Keeps ItS Volunteers
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