Orthodox Leader Assails Extremists
on Religious Issues; Charges Reform,
Conservative 'Interfere' in Israel
He said "these steps are
necessary to insure that the
Halakha has been faithfully
followed, an assurance which
the Orthodox rabbinate is no
longer in a position to pro-
vide." He said "I now de-
Friday, June 28, 1974—S
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Orthodox establishment in Is-
rael to make acceptance by
the NRP in the government
contingent on a change in
Israel's Law of Return.
clare them to be out of
bounds."
Rabbi Kieffer opened his
announcement with a de-
nunciation of efforts of the
MIAMI BEACH — Rabbi that any change in the Law U.S. "I will not initiate it,
Louis Bernstein, president of of Return on the question of but I will accept such re-
the Rabbinical Council of `Who Is a Jew" would result quests on their part," Rabbi
America, has • called on the in a diminution of financial Goren told the JTA.
people of Israel to "put an aid to Israel and other boy-
In Erie, Pa., a Conserva-
end to their internal differ- cotts." He added that "these tive rabbi declared that the
ences and to present a united messages were published in halakhic position of Orthodox
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Speaking in Miami Beach lamit Aloni," a cabinet minis- nounced he will no longer ac-
cept Orthodox conversions or
at the opening of the RCA's ter.
Rabbi Joseph B. Glazer, divorces as valid.
38th annual national conven-
tion, Rabbi Bernstein assailed executive vice president of
Rabbi Mordecai Kieffer of
those he called "extremists" the Central Conference of Cong. Brith Sholom also an-
on both ends "of the incipient American Rabbis, the rab- nounced that Jews bringing
kultur kampf" over religious binic branch of Reform him documents attesting Or-
issues that he saw posing Judaism called Rabbi Bern- thodox conversion 'will have
"a very serious theat to the stein's accusation "utterly to undergo immersion in a
false," "deeply resented" and mikva under my supervision."
future of Israel."
He alSo declared, in a
He 'asserted that while "We "disappointing in terms of
are not suggesting that there what seems to be an attempt statement in his synagogue
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suggesting very strongly that Rabbi Shlomo Goren told the beth din (rabbinical court)
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He called on both religious Return to be amended so that ciation of Conservative rab-
halakhic
conversions
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bis.
and secular groups for co-ex-
istence and cooperation "in a would be recognized in Israel
He said that when that
spirit of mutual love for the
happened, the way would be
land and its needs."
At the same time, Rabbi open for the National Re-
Bernstein charged the Con- ligious Party to join the La-
servative and Reform move- bor-led coalition government
ments with "unwarraoted in- of Premier Yitzhak Rabin
terference" in Israel's poli- "and this will unify the
people of Israel once again."
tical and religious life.
Rabbi Goren was adamant
Rabbi Bernstein said that
this interference "represents against accepting conversions
an attempt to foist up on Is- performed by non - Orthodox
rael ideologies which have rabbis. He said the Reform
been developed in the 'United movement in the U.S. was
States and which are a de- making a "grave mistake" by
viation from historic prac- demanding that Israel recog-
nize nonhalakhic conversions
tices."
Rabbi Bernstein came un- and claimed that they thus
der fire for accusing leaders "demonstrated their aliena-
of the Conservative and Re- tion from the law of Moses."
form movements of trying to
He said he. would not seek
blackmail the Israeli people meetings with Reform and
by implying that financial aid Conservative rabbis in the
would be conditional upon Is-
rael's acceptance of their re-
Los Angeles JNF
ligious ideologies.
Rabbi Alexander M.
Schindler, president of the Entertained by
Union of American Hebrew Pro-Israel Group
Congregations (Reform),
LOS ANGELES—Bnai Sha-
said the charge was "irre-
sponsible and Rabbi Bern- lom, a group of non-Jews
stein should either produce from Phoenix and Brooklyn
the evidence or apologize to dedicated to helping Israel,
Conservative and Ref or m entertained at the city's re-
cent Jewish National Fund
leaders."
Rabbi Bernstein charged Council meeting.
The 20-member group sang
that "the message and threats
by the Conservative and Re- songs in Yiddish and Hebrew
form synagogues and rab- to the more than 800 persons
binic bodies to the political attending the meeting. The
leadership in Israel implied group said they had played
the same songs -. for Jewish
soldiers in the Yom
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nahla (settlement) in ;Israel.
Arthur E. Whetstone, man-
aging editor of Bnai Shalom,
the group's magazine, said
that four families from the
group had made aliya, and
that all now speak fluent He-
brew. He said the magazine
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in Jerusalem "so we can say
to the Jewish people of the
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