THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
April 2, 1976 53
Rabbinical Assembly Convention Elects Rabbi Rabinowitz President
GROSSINGERS, N.Y. —
Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz,
spiritual leader of the Adas
Israel Congregation of
Washington, D.C., for the
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past 16 years, was elected
president Wednesday of the
Rabbinical Assembly at its
76th annual convention at
Grossingers.
The new head of the thou-
sand member Conservative
rabbinate, who was or-
dained by the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary in 1943,
succeeds Rabbi Mordecai
Waxman of Temple Israel,
Great Neck, N.Y. who held
the post for the past two
years.
Prior to assuming his
pulpit in Washington, Rabbi
Rabinowitz served the
Adath Jeshurun Congrega-
tion in Minneapolis and
Bnai Jacob Synagogue in
'New Haven. While in Min-
neapolis, Rabbi Rabinowitz
served on the Minnesota
Food for Peace Committee
under the national chair-
manship of Sen. George
McGovern, and in 1953 he
was named by Time Maga-
zine as one of Minnesota's
100 "Young Leaders of To-
morrow."
For three years he was
acting executive director
of the United Synagogue of
America_, the lay organiza-
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tion of Conservative Juda-
ism. In the nation's capi-
tol, he was president of the
Washington Board of Rab-
bis and local chairman of
the American-Israel Pub-
lic Affairs Committee.
He has served as a vice
chairman of the Bnai Brith
Youth Commission and
chairman for 25 years of its
Judaica Committee which
under his direction has pub-
lished 17 Judaism pam-
phlets.
Speaking at the opening
session of the convention,
Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein,
- president of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America, said
a decline in American Jew-
ish self-confidence in Zion-
ism and Israel is even more
-dangerous to the Jewish
community in this country
than the wavering politics of
Washington about Israel,
. the irrational and fanatical
violence of the Arab world
or the continuing enmity of
Communism.
Sternstein said that he
"fears the possibilities of
eroding self-confidence
within the Jewish commu-
nity as something more
dangerous than anything
affecting us from without.
Far more challenging than
confronting and vindicat-
ing itself before a hostile
and bigoted world, Zion-
ism must once again
mount a spiritual and ide-
ological onslaught on the
Jewish community."
Prior to the election of
`Rabbi Rabinowitz, Rabbi
Mordecai Waxman, presi-
dent of the Rabbinical As-
sembly, urged the creation
of a central, democratic de-
liberative national Jewish
organization that can make
definitive policy for all of
American Jewry.
Rabbi Waxman said that
while there are three organ-
izations — the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza-
tions, the Synagogue Coun-
cil, and the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds — no one of them is
completely representative of
American Jewry.
"In none of these bodies
is a considered, coherent,
democratic policy worked
out for the American Jew-
ish community. We need a
broadbased organization
which represents the or-
ganized community and
can make policy and speak
with authority. I feel that
the synagogue community
should initiate the process
of creating such a body
and make sure that the
religious bodies which are
concerned with the tone,
the quality and the char-
acter of Jewish life take
their part in determining
the future of -American
Jewish life."
Discussing the three cen-
tral organizations that now
perform some aspect of pol-
icy making, Rabbi Waxman
said:
"The Presidents Confer-
ence presumably represents
the Jewish community to
the American government,
the United Nations and to
the non-Jewish world on
matters relating to Israel
and some issues of interna-
tional concern. Neverthe-
.
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less, it almost never dis-
cusses policy, is almost
always reactive and rarely
initiative, and is a body
whose actions and timing
are largely determined by
the generally able man who
is its president. Since it is
an umbrella organization, it
must operate by a sort of
consensus and avoid divi-
sion. But like most umbrel-
las, this umbrella functions
best when the sun is shin-
ing."
Calling the Synagogue
Council "another umbrella
organization," Rabbi Wax-
man said that it is "a rea-
sonable representative of
the Jewish religious com-
munity in ecumenical rela-
tions and is doing a fine job
in its policy institute of rais-
ing issues and processing
data."
Admitting that it pro-
vides a setting for rabbinic
and lay religious bodies to
get together, he lamented
that "the price of that as-
sociation is undefined but
recognized limits of policy
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and action. The veto is as
potent a weapon in the
Synagogue Council as it is
in the United Nationi and
so broader issues of policy
escape us." He urged that
its role "where the rab-
binic and synagogue com-
munity can develop" be
expanded.
Calling the Council of
Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds "a powerful
body which largely guides
the distribution of the
money raised by the Ameri-
can Jewish community," he
complained that "the syn-
agogue and the rabbinate as
collective bodies have little
role or input in it although
it is made up of members of
synagogues and individual
rabbis."
Stating that in recent
years the Council "is cer-
tainly more Jewish in tone,
far more Israel oriented
than it was in the past," the
retiring leader of the Con-
servative rabbinate com-
plained that the largest
body of American Jews, the
religious bodies "have little
to do with determining its
policies on controlling the
distribution of funds which
in turn make policy."
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