Chief Rabbi Goren's Courage Solves 'Outcast' Issue

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Goren and his colleague,
bill for a year. Goren Sephardic Chief Rabbi
asked that time to give him Ovadia Yosef, since their
a chance to find halakhic elections last month. Al-
(religious law) solutions to ' though he was not consulted
problems involving personal by Goren and was out of
status. Postponement of the town when the rabbinical
Ilausner bill will relieve court sat Monday, It a b b i
Mapam of the burden of de- Yosef gave his blessings to
ciding whether or not to sup- the court's decision. But it
port it and will remove the was tinged with irony.
specter of a cabinet crisis "Blessed be he who has rid
and early elections which us of the responsibility," he
has loomed large in weeks. said. Rabbi Yosef was also
quoted as having remarked
Justice Minister
Y3 acov
Shimshon Shapiro, the Labor that it was a pity that Goren
Party's liaison man in rela- let the case drag on so long
tions with the National Re- if he intended to act as he
did. However, he said, he re-
ligious Party, expressed the
garded the issue as closed
hope Tuesday that Goren's
action heralded "a change ! and accepted Goren's hand
in the chief rabbiniate." Re- ! "outstretched in peace." The
ligious Affairs Minister dispute between the two
rabbis revolved around the
Zerach Warhaftig of the!
nature of the rabbinical tri-
NRP also recorded his satis-
bunal that was to hear the
faction with Goren's move.
Langer case.
The speedy settlement of
Reactions of a different
the Langer case may help!
kind came from ultra-Ortho-
heal the breach that has de-'
dox circles and from the
veloped between Rabbi
Rabbinical Supreme Court
bypassed by Goren. Leaders
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS of the religious community
II— Friday, Nov. 24, 1972
of Bnei . Braq met Monday

night to consider establishing
their own rabbinate and
'marriage registry- They
claimed that since Rabbi
; Goren has permitted the
marriage of "mamzerim"
'they could no longer trust
the chief rabbinate to han•
dle their own marriages
properly.

.

Some members of the Rab-
binical Supreme Court ac-
cused Goren of undermining
the rabbinical court process
and expressed doubt of his
claim that nine registered
dayanim had collaborated in
rendering the Langer decis-
ion.
They said they were sus-
picious because Goren re-
fused to reveal the names of
the participants in the court.
Goren said he withheld the
names to pro'ect the daya-
nim from reprisals by re-
ligious zealots. Rabbi Goren
himself was the target of a
physical assault by four
Yeshiva students Monday
while attending burial serv-
ices for Rabbi Yisrael Halevi
Beer; of Ness Ziona, at the
Mt. of Olives Cemetery here.

The youths, who were ar-
rested. were prevented from
reaching Goren but injured
his driver.

(Rabbi Beeri died Monday
while conducting prayers at
the local synagogue. He was
61 and had served as Ness
Ziona's rabbi since 1947. He
had published a number of
books on halakhic subjects.)

of Conservative
Leaders
Judaism attending the World
Council of Synagogues con-
vention here appeared unan-
imous in their approval
Tuesday of Goren's handling
of the Langer "mamzerim"
case.

Rabbi Judah Nadich, pres-
ident of the Rabbinical As-
sembly of America, read a
congratulatory telegram be
sent to Rabbi Goren at the
opening session of the con-
vention Monday nitdit. The
message said: "We bless you
for your courage and the
peat rulin which will in-

crease the glory of the
Torah."
Prof. Simon Greenberg,
vice chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America, said Rabbi Goren's
ruling was in the spirit of
Halakha and quoted the bib-
lical verse, 'Sons shall not
die for the sins of their
fathers."

Prof. Saul Lieberman of
the seminary said he could
not comment on the ruling

itself which he had not seen
but that he esteemed Rabbi
Goren as a scholar and a
righteous man.
The popularity of Rabbi
Goren's action at home
seemed to be shared by Jew-
ish religious leaders aboard.
Chief Rabbi Immanuel
Jakobovitz of Great Britain,
who is Orthodox, indicated
his
approval. "There are
sometimes cases like this
before bate; din" (rabbini-
cal courts), he said, "but
often we find solutions under

Egypt.

The assurance was prompt-
ed by a broadcast that Brit-
ain was about to sell Egypt
military equipment valued at
100,000,000 pounds sterling
($235,000,000).

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The spokesman said discus-
sions with Egypt began last
July and were continuing.
The spokesman observed
that there is no embargo on
British arms sales to either
Israel or Egypt or any Arab
country but that three condi-
tions must be met before
such sales could be consum-
mated: arms sales to a Mid-
dle East country must not
disturb the balance of power
in the region: must not esca-
late the arms race; and
must not be conducive to a
resumption of hostilities.

(The Beirut newspaper said
Soviet-built Antonov 12 trans-
port aircraft had flown sur-
face-to:air missiles and anti-
aircraft guns from Budapest
and Odessa to Damascus in
the past week.)

Egyptian W a r
Minister
Ahmed Ismail has turned
over control of Egyptian
MIG fighters based in Syria
to Syrian forces and promised
to break the cease fire along
t.: ∎ Suez canal in case of a
riajor Israeli attack against
Syria, the Beirut newspaper I
L'Orient-Le Jour said.

(Quoting Arab diplomatic
sources, the newspaper said
in addition to the Egypt-Syr,
ian agreement made during
Ismail's recent trip to Dam-
' ascus, the Soviet Union had
stepped up its deliveries of
arms to Syria

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Britain Talks of Selling Military
Hardware to Egypt, on Condition

LONDON (JTA)—A foreign
office spokesman told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that there has been no
change in British policy
toward the sale of arms to

Halakha." He cautioned,
however, that "we cannot
change the law completely"
and claimed that "because
the punishment is so severe
on adultery we have had
so few cases of it. If there is
a way out of a particular
problem we are, of course,
very happy about it."
Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan
of France said he could not
comment without seeing the
Goren court's ruling.
Rabbi Joe Glazer, an
American Reform rabb i,
said he was happy for the
Langers but said the solution
of their particular case did

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