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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, January 28, 1972
Ignore Survey Query,
CUNY Students Told
NEW YORK (JTA)—Students
and facilIty members of the City
University here were advised by 10
major Jewish organizations of their
right to refuse to answer a City
University of New York .question-
naire about their race, religion and
ethnic background.
The joint statement came in the
wake of a CUNY request, address-
ed to the university's instructional
staff and student body, to fill out
forms listing their creed, color and
national origin.
David E. Lavin, director of -
research of CUNY, advised the
students that the information re-
quested was for purposes of
"subsequent follow-up studies;"
and that "the data will be used
for statistical purposes only."
The Jewish groups declared:
that such inquiries raise "the most
serious questions regarding the
invasion of privacy and the pos-
sibility of serious misuse of infor-
mation for discriminatory ends.
Legally, no individual can be re-
quired to give such inforination
and may not be coerced to do
so."
Histadrut Seeks Wage
Equity for Immigrants
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Histad-
rut Executive recommended that
special consideration be given im
migrants from Soviet Russia and
other countries who were detained
in their country of origin for Zion-
ist activity.
Under the Histadrut plan, the
starting wages of the activists
would be the same as for other
Israeli workers who have been
on the job for five years.
Under prevailing labor con-
tracts, Isiaeli workers receive a
raise in wages after every year
of employment.
The Histadrut recommendation
must be approved by the Central
Labor Committee which is com-
posed of employers and Histadrut
and government representatives.
If it is approved it would be bind-
ing on government offices as well
as private employers.
Dr. Freehof's NeWest 'Responsa' Raises Interesting
Questions Relating to Orthodox, Need for Sanhedrin
Dr. Solomon B. Freehof of Pitts -
burgh has specialized in his liter -
ary efforts in interpreting Jewish
customs, and his Reform Responsa
continue to be the most important
in this field of Jewish research
and scholarly writings.
"Modern Reform Responsa,' ,
italtt . Published by Hebrew Union
()allege *Piesa :and. being distributed
by -Ktav publishers,.,iviis made pos-
sible by the Mehrevi Union Col-
lege Alumni' Association. It is the
newest ields collected- works pro-
viding ahsviers 'lb 'questions on
traditional observances as viewed
for the - Reform movement.
perhaps these new explorations and the answers provide a fascin-
on the part of the Reform move- ating study in Jewish traditional
ment may someday be of help. practices.
It may be that some of the con-
clusions or some of the methods
which Reform is using in its
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HARRY ABRAM
This statement is espkialli
signifiCant because of the newly-
developing demands for the con-
vening of a Sanhedrin to resolve
many religious problems and be-
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cause of the prevailing view that
There are 54 Response in this:
Orthodoxy
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volume, and in nearly all of them
l of authoritative
there must emerge an interest Such ;reviva
Jewish
forces
to :deal :with they
not only among Reform Jews but
the Conservative and Orthodox as confusions in JeWish ranks.
Dr. Freehof' takes issue with
well, because the author has
delved into the interpretations of with an Orthodox scholar who said
he opposed Torah reading at an
scholars of many centuries.
irregular time in the instance
Just as important as the Re-' `dean with 'on a service on Friday.
sponsa in the new Freehof
Rabbi' Freehof comments that "it
ume is his introduction in which is =far from clear .
4hat it is for..
he comments on the• controver- bidden to read the Torah at other
sies with the Orthodox. He than the regular times. As for
makes this positive, and impress- making the Torah unfit if it so
ive declaration: "The Reform read, there seems to be no justi-
movement basin some extent to-
fication at all for such a deci-
day arrived at the place occupied sion.".
by the first defenders of. the
Many noted authorities are
movement and is concerned rath- drawn upon by Rabbi Freehof in
er deeply With the ..relation
his replies to questions regarding
Judaism to the Halakha. We conduct of services, bareheaded-
have come to new interest in ness, transplants, portrait busts
these monuments of the Jewish in synagogues, allowing a terminal
past. We have come to the real- patient to die, memorializing Chris-
ization that while it was of su- tian relatives and many other prob-
preme importance that we had lems with which he was con-
emphasized the Bible and thus fronted.
came close to the basic con-
On the latter question, for ex-
science of Judaism, we are now ample, we have this Freehof view
trying to rediscover our rela- in which Gentile relatives and a
tionship to those great works synagogue procedure is involved.
which represent the intellectual- Dr. Freehors view is: "There is
ity and the sell-discipline of - nothing wrong with a Gentile being
Judaism. We ourselves have not permanently memorialized in the
yet achieved. a clarification -of Kaddish list . . The husband,
our attitude to the Talmud and while justly sensitive to memorial-
the Codes, but we are studying izing his first wife in the presence
them now with affection, with of his second wife, has no right to
admiration, and with deepening deprive his =children of the priv-
interest. We are trying ta.find . 2 ilege of memorializing their grand-
way in which this great litera- parents and other close relatiVes
ture can guide us without gov- . . . Once a gift has been received
erning us to the extent of limit- by the congregation, it is virtually
ing precious liberty and mod- impossible for an individual to
ern conscience. How modern have it changed, and there are
Orthodoxy will someday solVe considerable restrictions as to
the problem of its relationship to the—right of the congregation to
Talmud and Codes cannot at - pre'- have it changed."
sent even be guessed at. But
Many of the Responsa in Free-
hors book raise vital questions
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U.S. Firm to Build
7 Hotels in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA)--A spokes-
man for Holiday Inn, Inc., said
that it was not true that the cor-
poration had withdrawa plans to
build a 450-room hotel in Jere-
salem, possibly under pressure
from the Arab League's boycott
committee. The spOkesnian said
that a story to that effect in an
Israeli newspaper was wrong. "We
are continuing with all the projects
we have in Israel"—a minimum of
seven hotels.
Holiday Inn founder-chairman
Kemmons Wilson. declared the
Jerusalem hotel to be "another
important step in promoting world
understanding through tourism.
,T ere are two—Holiday Inns in
Morocco and liwo--'0thltrs nearly
completed there, with another be.:
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