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Dulzin said the Who Is a Jew controversy is really a question of "who is a con- vert," and is a matter for the entire Jewish people to decide and not for political parties or even a Jewish state. The conference passed a resolution affirming its de- mand "that the State of Is- rael recognize the right of all affirmative expressions of Judaism to equal treat- ment under the law." Surveying the problems of Progressive Judaism in Latin America, Rabbi Roberto D. Graetz of Buenos Aires said the Latin American coun- tries were either stable but under an oppressive dictator- ship, or fluid in an ever- changing political scene, and that local Jewish communi- ties reflected the situation. He said Chile, for example, had suffered losses of its spiritual and communal Jew- ish leadership during the re- gime of President Allende because many influential Jews and all but one of its rabbis, a progressive rabbi who tried to provide some kind of leadership, had left Chile. He said the rabbis had subsequently returned and' were now supporting the new regime. Rabbi Graetz stressed that the situation in Argentina was unclear after the death of President Peron and be- cause of the lack of a reli- gious tradition in Argentina. He said there were more than 400,000 Jews in Buenos Aires but that fewer than 20 per cent belonged to any kind of Jewish institution. Rabbi Henry Sobel of Sao Paulo said he felt the Jewish communities in Latin Amer- ica, and especially in Brazil, were in more danger than Jews in any other part of the world, because Latin Amer- ica Jews were "afraid to make up their minds as to their place and role in their societies." LONDON (JTA) — The House of Lords has ruled that no insurance money is payable for the destruction of three planes at Beirut Airport by Israeli com- mandos in December, 1968. The raid by helicopter- borne Israelis blew up two Coronados and a DC7, three- quarters of the fleet • of Lebanese International Air- ways, in reprisal for an at- tack by Arab terrorists two days earlier on an El Al airliner in Athens. The Lords unanimously dismissed an appeal by American Airlines Inc. of New York and Banque Sab- bag, SAL, of Beirut, against an Appeals Court decision in February, 1973 that they were not entitled to insurance money from Ralph James D'Olier Hope and other un- derwriters. The insurance expressly excluded war risks for the planes chartered to Leb- anese Airlines. TEL AVIV (JTA)—What Israel needs least these days is a third "Panther" group. But police disclosed the ex- istence of a group calling itself the . "Religious Pan- thers," patterned after the "Black Panthers" and their offshoot, the "Blue and White Panthers." Their existence was dis- covered when a suspected letter bomb addressed to Na- tional Religious Party Secre- tary General Zvi Bernstein was turned over to police. The envelope contained a harmless piece of metal. A note heaping insults on Bern- stein was signed "Religious Panthers." Police believed it may have been sent by a dis- sident group or individual within the NRP opposed to the party's joining Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS AVIS FORD INC. HAS SOLD MORE NEW CARS IN 1974 THAN ANY FORD DEALER IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. I IN TURN IN 1974 SOLD AND LEASED MORE NEW FORDS THAN ANY SALESMAN AT AVIS FORD. THERE MUST BE A REASON — WHY!!! 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