Meeting of Orthodox Leaders Told They Must Tackle Modern Issues

JERUSALEM (JTA)—A world- and laymen here is seeking ways
wide meeting of Orthodox rabbis to bring Orthodox_ Judaism into
a closer relationship with the
times.
Dr. Norman Lamm, professor of
Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva Uni-
versity in New York, described
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ward "the sealing of a new co-
venant" as they did in biblical
days.
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rally called for the resignation of
three Mlzrachi ministers -- Dr.

2,000 Orthodox Jews, among them
heads of yeshivot, leaders of the
Agudat Israel and Mizrachi, stu-
dents and leaders of the Lubavit-
cher movement, met here at the
Beis Medrash Hagadol, the Lower
East Side's largest and most his-
toric synagogue, to protest Israel's
handling of the "Who is a Jew"
issue.
Called by the Union of Orthodox
Rabbis (Agudas Horabonim), the
conference urged the Israeli gov-
ernment to insert the words "ac-
cording to Halakha" into its "Who
is a Jew" law, an amendment to
the Law of Return, which defines
a Jew as one born of a Jewish
mother or one converted to Juda-
ism without specifying how the con-
version was accomplished.
A number of speakers at the
mass rally accused the Israel
government of allowing non-Jews
to enter Israel as Jews with full
rights and privileges of an oleh.

Josef Burg, minister of -interior;

Dr. Zerach Warhaftig, minister cf
religion; and Michael Hazanni,

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consequence of their-misrepresen-
tation of the policies and feelings

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NEW YORK (JTA)—The Jewish
Defense League has charged that
a State Department official ad-
vised the prosecutor in a contin-
uing case involving JDL chairman
Rabbi Meir Kahane that "under
no circumstances should Kahane
be allowed to go free."

The prosecutor, Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney Michael Corriero,
insisted that the Washington of-
ficial, Robert Kuttner, "never
contacted me" and made "no such
statement to me."

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to greet the delegates. But the
gathering was promptly attacked
by ultra-Orthodox elements at one
end of the spectrum and religious
moderates at the other.
One of the main topics at the
week-long meeting is the organiza-
tion of a central world body for
religious services that could supply
ritual slaughterers and religious
paraphernalia to out-of-the-way
Jewish communities.
The ultra-Orthodox, ranging from
the Naturei Karta through the Agu-
dat Israel and Poale Agudat Is-
rael, denounced the 500 participants
from abroad and 1,000 Israeli rab-
bis and laymen as "coalitionists"
who are willing to compromise the
tenets of Judaism so that they can
remain in office.
From the more liberal Orthodox
members of Mapai and Rabbi
Menachem Hacohen, head of His-
tadrut's religious department,
came a warning that anyone at-
tending the conference should do
so with the full knowledge that
it is a meeting of National Re-
ligious Party rabbis.
The NRP is a coalition partner
in the government and is gener-
ally regarded as occupying a mid-
dle ground between religious ex-
tremists and liberal elements. The
NRP has been at serious odds with
Orthodox militants in r e c e n t
months on such issues as autop-
sies and the conscription of re-
ligious girls for national service.
No organized world body is ex-
pected to emerge from the confer-
ence due mainly to the traditional
opposition of American Jews to any
organization that purports to speak
for the entire Jewish community,
Earlier Premier Golda Meir
agreed with the leader of the
Orthodox Rabbinical Council of
America that dialogue is the best
way to resolve differences be-
tween observant and nonobservant
Jews in Israel and to preserve na-
tional unity.
Mrs. Meir addressed the mid-
winter conference of the Rabbinical
Council. -
Rabbi Bernard Berzon, president.
had called earlier for dialogue and
persuasion and urged observant
Jews to eschew the violence em-
ployed recently by religious zea-
lots. Minister for Religious Affairs
Zerach Warhaftig urged Mrs. Meir
to agree to change the Law of. Re-
turn so that it con -wiles with the
halakhic definition of who is a

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fere" in his cases, and that he

had advised Kuttner not to at-
tend any more hearings in the

Kahane case after the State De- -
partment official took down the
names and addresses of jurors
in the second of two hung-jury
trials.
The charges against Rabbi Ke-
bane stem "from a JDL incident
at the local offices of Tass, the
Soviet news agency. The third
trial was set for Feb. 7.

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