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NEW YORK '(JTA)_— The 72nd er •
be a mere passive receiver all - too: many of our synagogues."
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annual convention of the Rabbini-
Friday, March 24, 1972—S
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Mitterand Favors Secure Borders of Allon Plan
TEL AVIV (JTA) = Francoise
Mittel:and, the French Socialist
Party leader,' left Israel- Sunday
morning after a four-day visit. He
praised the "Alton" -,plan" .for a
peace settlement between Israel
and Jordan and said he regarded
the plan as a solution that can be
accepted by both sides.
The plan, attributed to Deputy
Premier and Minister of Educa-
tion Yigal Allan, calls for a con-
tinued Israeli military presence
along the Jordan River but no an-
nexation' by Israel of the West
Bank.
Mitterand said he was now con-
vinced that the pre-June 1967
borders of Israel were not de-
fensible.
in the community, but must be
She said she Vias"asking far
cal ,Assembly, the association of granted a role. as a creative par- the recognition of the right of
Con-Saliva:1We, rabbisjhas• eeted'fo licfPant ;in. the
=process capable - :women to take .1=their
end-Alt:nig-standing unPasie Under brilecialOn-Marnng:"
places as individuals at the policy
which one or two members of the
In thit connection, he ob- —and decision-making levels, as
RA committee on law and stand;
well as in the implementation of
served that a growing number
ards could Wei.. felt:the:committee
.
of ;_womeie:"are assuming roles- the projects and policies deter-
from Selling- standards binding in Contetvitive Jddaiiiii is 'mem- mined by—let us face it, gentle-
bers 'of the Seminary "faculty men — undemocratically designat-
on all members on issues ofJew-
ish 'religibut ' law, • Rabbi 'Wolfe
and as- influential members in ed boards of directors with a token
Kelnian,"ItA executive - vice presi- the councils of local communi-
place for women." Her audience
dent- ekplained. • •
ties; thus taking on a new role wan all-male, except for rabbis'
wives.
In addition to abolishing the right in .the shaping of Jewish _tradi-
tion."
A prediction that 800 Soviet Jews
of any one or two law committee
The "recognition of women as will settle in the United States
members,to .bar the committee
from declaring official and bind- thinking people" with "the right during 1972 was made by Gaynor
ing standards, Rabbi Kelman said, to vote in their convegations" L. Jacobson, executive vice presi-
the resolution on "a standard of was urged on the convention by dent of the United HIAS Service.
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rabbinic practices consistent with Mrs. Henry N.,Rapaport, president Jacobson said- that 214 Russian
• far Really, Parties, Mei;
Murry X. Koblin Adv.
membership-in the Rabbinical As- of ,the National Women's League Jews settled in the United States
• a., asses, Large Sint
in
1971,
and
that
HIAS
currently
of
the
United
Synagogue
otAmer-
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sembly" also sets procedures for
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imposing sanctions on rabbis vio- ica. "Our 18.Year-olds are `Voting has on file applications from 5,000
American
citizens
seeking
to
re-
for
the
President
of
the
-United
lating 'such standards" ,end estab-
lishes safeguards against what( States," she-deelared. "Our' (200,- unite that many families from the
some of the 1,000 rabbis at the 000) sisterhood women, -second- Soviet Union with their families
convention called "heresy hunt- class citizens, have no ballot in in this , country.
ing,"
Sanctions range from suspen- Swedish Minister - at U-M Functions
sion for varying periods to fines
and expulsions, Rabbi Kelman
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gross vlelations" of standards
by RA members.
The procedures embodied in the
resolution changed the rule re-
quiring unanimity for law com-
mittee action to establish a given
standard: The new procedure re-
quires 80 per cent approval. Un-
animity had rarely happened in
the past.
Rabbi Kelman said that the im-
passe created by the unanimity
requirement came to a head with
a mass resignation of members
of the law committee in Decem-
ber 1970.
The issue then was whether the
LeitLeifland, minister • pleidriotentlary of Sweden to the U.S.,
Conservative rabbinate should
have not only a binding ban against represented his goverkanent at the inauguration of the Wallenberg
Conservative rabbis officiating at Lecture Series of the college of eneneering and design of the Uni-
a mixed marriage—which has al- versity of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, March 15 and 16. Leifland (sec-
ways been in effect—but also in ond from left) spoke- at the luncheon and evening meetings on March
clarifying-such issues as require- 15 and participated in the symposium on March 16. Participants in
ments for conversion and whether the plans for the lectures in honor of Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg, the
a rabbi could _give a blessing at a Swedish Christian -representative on the War Refugee Board who was
mixed marriage performed under responsible for rescuing nearly 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the
other than Conservative auspices. Auschwitz extermination .camp were (from left) Sol King, president
Dr. Judah Nadich, rabbi of New of Alfred Kahn Architects, whO was Wallenberg's classmate at the
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