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NEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor
John Lindsay took a whirlwind
tour of the city's largest Jewish
neighborhood, the Borough Park
section of Brooklyn.
Accompanied by one of his chief
aides, Sid Davidoff, and an aide
from neighborhood stabilization
programs, Rabbi Samuel Schrage,
Lindsay began this "walking tour"
with a visit to the Beth Jacob
School, where he was greeted by
girls who chanted "H a v a y n u
Shalom Aleihem" and presented
him with a bouquet of flowers.
He then continued his walk, hav-
ing been joined by some 100 Hasi-
dim, along teeming 13th Ave.
where shopkeepers greeted him
with gifts of fruit.
L. Halm
Lindsay's next stop was Yeshiva dim looked on, Lindsay offered
Be'er Shmuel, where he was warm- his personal "mazel toy" to the
ly received by a crowd of more white-bearded rabbi on the en-
than 300 people, including 50 gagement of his daughter. When
one of the Hasidim offered the
rabbis .
Lindsay, obviously pleased with Mayor "mazel tov on his new
the warm reception, praised the party affiliation," he grand rabbi
Hasidic community for its devel- interjected that to him "it does
opment of educational resources not matter which party you be
for their community and "for the long to, I like you as a person,
stability they bring to all neigh- and give you my support and bless-
ings for reaching higher office."
borhoods of our city."
.
The tour culminated in the pri-
vate chambers of Grand Rabbi
Halberstam, the Bobover Rebbe,
who poured Haig and Haig in silver
goblets and offered the mayor and
his party a traditional "l'hairn"
along with his blessings. As Hasi-
vvirn maw:um
port now, one rabbi commented
that "he has matured and we un-
derstand him better now."
Lindsay attracted national at-
tention when he announced that
he and his wife Mary had changed
party registration from Republican
to Democratic.
In 1969 when Lindsay ran for
his second term as mayor on the
Liberal-Independent line, Borough
Park gave him little support, caus-
ing him to lose that area by a
margin of more than 3-1. When
asked :'.lout his outpouring of sup-
Assailing "the few rabbis who
have taken it upon themselves to
encourage intermarriage by their
own officiating at intermarriages
and thereby hasten Jewish assimi-
lation," Rabbi Ofseyer declared
that "the fastest .way to assure
and achieve Jewish suicide, is for
intermarriage to become the rule
in the marriage patterns of Amer-
ican Jewry." The terms "inter-
marriage" and "mixed marriage,"
when used interchangeably, refer
to marriages in which the part-
ners have differing faiths.
Asking what possible rationale
there could be for rabbis "com-
mitted to perpetuating Judaism,
to officiate at its dissolution,"
Rabbi Ofseyer said there were
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Describing such officiating as
"not only destructive and fraudu-
lent," Rabbi Ofseyer also contend-
ed that it was also "clearly beyond
any reasonable authority which the
title 'rabbi' grants. Would anyone
suggest or believe that a rabbi
has any religious authority to sanc-
tify through Jewish law and tradi-
tion the marriage of a Chris-
tian?"
Citing the portion of the cere-
mony—whether Orthodox, Conser-
vative or Reform—requiring the
bridegroom to say to the bride:
"Be thou consecrated unto me, as
my wife, according to the laws of
Moses and Israel," he asked how
any rabbi could, in good con-
science, request "a non-Jew to
say, or to accept, this essentially
Jewish pronouncement."
He declared that "there is no
Jewish sanction for mixed mar-
riage and it is by no means sanc-
tioned Jewishly because a rabbi
has performed it. There is no Jew-
ish validity for it whatsoever and
none can be claimed." He said also
that the performance by some
rabbis of such marriages left Jew-
ish parents defenseless when a
child considering such a marriage
tells them: "How can you object?
Rabbi so-and-so will marry us
anyway, how wrong can it be?"
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two basic reasons given by Re-
form rabbis who perform such
(Copyright 1971, JTA, Inc.)
The Reform rabbis who officiate marriages, and that, considered
at mixed marriages have been together, those reasons are mu-
tually contradictory. He said
charged by a Conservative rabbi
with violation of "the very princi- some rabbis claim they do it
ples for which the rabbinate for "universalistic reasons," and
stands" and with engaging in "an others perform. such marriages
"in the name of saving Jews
act of fraud." Only Reform rab-
b's will officiate at such weddings, fo7 Judaism."
and only a few such rabbis do so,
He called the' first argument one
but the issue was raised again at in which the rabbi, "an adherent
the 82nd annual convention of the of a Particular religion," was seek-
Central Conference of American ing to bring all religions together
Rabbis last June. "over the corpse of the one reli-
The guidebook of the Reform gion he supposedly represents."
rabbinate simply states that such The rabbi giving the second reason
marriages "are contrary to the argues that the couple are deter-
tradition of the Jewish religion mined to inter-marry and "the
and should therefore be discour- fact that a rabbi marries them
aged by the American rabbinate." will keep the Jewish partner within
Outgoing CCAR President Roland the fold and retain for him or her
Gittelsohn urged the convention a tie with Judaism." Rabbi Of-
delegates to take a position of seyer called intermarriages "the
unequivocally opposing participa- most • indicating evidence of the
tion by members in such wed- extent to which the process of as-
dings, but the delegates put off similation has eroded away the
until the 1972 convention any such essence of Jewishness among cer-
action, meanwhile reaffirming the tarn Jews." If officiating at such
present position of "discouraging" weddings "is intended to save the
CCAR members from performing Jews for Judaism, there will be
the marriages. very little worth saving if the
practice continues," he asserted.
The assault on the Reform rab-
He charged: "it is an act of re-
bis was made by Rabbi Jordan ligious fraud on the part of a rabbi,
Ofseyer of Springfield, Mass., in a representing Judaism, to give Jew-
critique in the United Synagogue ish sanction to matrimony between
Review, official publication of the a Jew and a non-Jew."
association of Conservative con-
gregations.
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