THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 June 25, 1976
Rep. Don Riegle Warns of Dangerous Erosions in Washington's Policy;
Emphasizes Need for Firmness in Assuring a Moral U.S. Position on Israel
Congressman Donald
Riegle came to The Jewish
News at an appropriate
time last Friday to renew a
10-year friendship that
commenced when he was
elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives and since
then consistently defended
Jewish rights wherever
there was oppression and
became one of the chief sup-
porters of Israel in
Congress.
On the day of his visit
there was a staff party in
honor of a retiring member
of the editorial department,
Daniel Pesselnick, and for
Rep. Riegle (D-Flint) and
the associates who accom-
panied him it served as an
occasion for sociability.
Rep. Riegle took occasion
to recall the years of serious
efforts to assure the
American-Israel friendship
and at the same time to
warn of the new pattern of
"welching on promises," of
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White House and State
Department flinching on
the Israel issue and of the
dangers that lurk ahead for
Israel unless there is a
strengthening of forces in
both houses of Congress.
devotions, as being one of
"spirituality, psy-
chological and conscien-
tiously strengthened,"
and he emphasized that
the duties involve moral
obligations.
Rep. Riegle, candidate
for the Democratic
nomination for the U.S.
Senate to succeed Senator
Philip A. Hart, described
his interest in Israel as
being a combination of
During the interview,
Riegle stressed that he is
deeply committed on the
issue of Israel. He sees "not
only our strategic interests,
but also our moral interests
Knesset Civil Marriage Bill
Defeated; Status Quo Remains
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The knesset Wednesday
once more defeated a bill
that would have instituted
civil marriage in Israel for
persons disqualified to
marry under religious law.
The 51-18 vote against the
measure drafted by Minis-
ter-Without-Portfolio Gi-
deon Hausner of the Inde-
pendent Liberal Party was,
in fact, a vote to preserve the
status quo under which Is-
rael's Orthodox religious
establishment is given blan-
ket authority over marriage,
divorce and other personal
matters.
Justice Minister Haim
Zadok told the Knesset as
much when he declared that
the present government,
like its predecessors, had no
intention of altering the
understanding on which the
coalition with the National
Religious Party is based.
ILP MK Yehuda Shaari,
who introduced the Haus-
ner bill, said it did not rep-
resent a break with the sta-
tus quo but rather a
solution for the serious per-
sonal problems "for those
people who under the pre-
sent situation were disquali-
fied to marry." He said a so-
lution has not been found
until now "because the pol-
itical establishment proved
immobile for so many
years." The bill was voted
down by a majority of the
Labor Alignment, the reli-
gious factions and part of
Likud.
It was supported by the
ILP, Mapam, some mem-
bers of Likud's Liberal
Party wing, Moked and the
Communist parties.
Woman Rabbinical Student
Saddened by 'Insensitivity'
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
A young woman studying
to be a Reform rabbi has de-
scribed her second year at
Hebrew Union College, the
Cincinnati branch of the Re-
form seminary, as one of
"battling the insensitivity of
an all-male institution, of
all-male professors and of
all-male students."
Myra Soifer reported on
her student travails from
her post as a student rabbi
at Temple Beth Shalom in
Charlotte, N.C. One of the
events of that academic year
— 1974-75 was the re-
sponse to her appointment
as student rabbi for an un-
named synagogue in an un-
named Michigan city. She
said "the congregation was
in an uproar," before any-
one in that town "had even
met me."
Reporting on her career in
the May issue of the Ameri-
can Jewish Times-Outlook,
Ms. Soifer added that "two
board members" of the
Michigan congregation
"refused to have me come
and one 'gentleman' an-
nounced that he would be
coming to Erev Rosh Has-
hana services specifically so
that he could 'walk out' on
them and on me. And all
this simply because my
name was Myra and not
Sam or Mark or David."
During the 1975-76 year,
she said, two more women
came to HUC "to shoulder
some of the strain along
with me. With it, too, came
a High Holiday pulpit in
Virginia where acceptance
seemed complete, and a
new bi-weekly pulpit in
Charlotte" where she re-
ported she feels "accepted
as a rabbi whose role is not
limited or stereotyped be-
cause of her gender."
Posing the question
"What is it like being a
woman rabbinical student?"
her response was that it has
been lonely and difficult but
also gratifying. She said "it
is lonely to live without a
role model, without anyone
you can be close to who is in
the same position as you."
Americans Trained
for Jobs in Israel
NEW YORK — A na-
tional program to train
young Americans interested
in settling in Israel for
skilled positions has been
established by the Labor
Zionist Alliance. A pilot
program has begun in Cleve-
land, Ohio where there is a
group of employers whose
product lines and produc-
tion facilities make the
teaching of skills and crafts
feasible.
The Labor Zionist pro-
gram provides young people
with the opportunity to
work in factories and engi-
neering firms so that they
will receive the type of
training which will enable
them to advance in indus-
trial management positions
in Israel.
are on the line" in the shift
away from Israel in
American foreign policy.
He said President Ford
has been back-peddling on
aid to Israel, the Sinai
agreements, the establish-
ment of an arms supply
relationship with Egypt and
on the Arab boycott.
Riegle, who was first
elected to Congress 10 years
ago at age 28, served for six
years on the foreign affairs
Volume Marks
HUC Centennial
CINCINNATI — A
501-page volume marking
the centennial celebration of
Hebrew Union College-Jew-
ish Institute of Religion was
published in Cincinnati by
the Hebrew Union College
Press.
Entitled "Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion at 100 Years," and
edited by Samuel Karff,
rabbi of Cong. Beth Israel of
Houston, the book details
the role of the college in the
development of Reform Ju-
daism.
It traces the growth of the
institution from its begin-
nings in 1875 in the base-
ment of a Cincinnati temple
to its present status as one
of the world's most inilor-
tant centers of Jewish learn-
ing, with schools in New
York, Los Angeles and Jeru-
salem, as well as Cincinnati.
It also presents a section--
of essays by five distin-
guished scholars surveying
the accomplishments of the
faculty in the fields of theol-
ogy and philosophy, history,
Hebrew languages and liter-
ature, rabbinics and Bible.
Israel to Join
Tribute to U.S.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel will participate after
all in the international mar-
itime tribute to the United
States Bicentennial in New
York harbor next month.
The government reversed
an earlier decision not to
send two missile boats rep-
resenting the Israeli Navy to
the U.S. for the event be-
cause the cost — about
$300,000 — was considered
too much at a time when
each ministry is under pres-
sure to reduce its budget.
Feinstone Grant
to S. American
NEW YORK — Jacobo
Kovadloff, director of the
American Jewish Commit-
tee's South American office
has been named 1976 recipi-
ent of the American Jewish
Committee's Sol Feinstone
Grant for in-service train-
ing.
Kovadloff, a native of
Argentina and a leading
member of its Jewish com-
munity, toured the United
States last month, as a re-
sult of the Feinstone grant.
The grant was established
by Feinstone, a noted phi-
lanthropist, ecologist, and
authority on the American
Revolution.
REP. DON RIEGLE
sub-committee of the House
Appropriations Committee.
After switching to
Democratic ranks four
yeaes ago he was dropped
from that assignment and
seated on the Foreign Af-
fairs Committee. His
assignments have given
him a ring-side seat to U.S.
foreign policy decisions for
the past 10 years.
He said he distrusted
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger because of his
record in Chile,. the Viet-
nam bombing, the India-
Pakistan war, Cyprus,
and the fact that
Kissinger lied to Riegel
during Congressional
testimony on the U.S.-
Egypt arms supply
relationship. He called for
Kissinger's replacement
with the election of a new
president "the key to es-
tablishing a new foreign
policy for the United
States."
Riegle said Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat told
him during his Mideast tour
more than a year ago that
he expected such a
relationship. "Kissinger
swore up and down that
there was no such
agreement," Riegle said,
"but once there was an
agreement in Sinai we
received the Defense
Department request for C-
130 transport planes."
"If Ford is re-elected,
Defense will ask for much
more. (Defense Secretary
Donald) Rumsfeld makes
light of their request as 'a
few guns,' but they are just
finessing the question
before the election."
He said it is becoming
more difficult to hold the
Arabs' weapons superiority
ratio at 3-1, "and more
sophisticated weaponry is
making Israel's position
even more dangerous" each
year.
"I'm not saying that
Kissinger isn't doing his
best," Riegle said, "but
foreign policy in this coun-
try is now centered on one
man, and this is wrong."
He said Kissinger makes
all decisions at the State
Department and obviously
can not be concerned with
the Middle East when oc-
cupied by" other matters.
Riegle said his experience
and record in national and
foreign affairs will be his
major campaign point
against Michigan Secretar-
ty of State Richard Austin,
the apparent front-runner
in the battle for the
Democratic nomination in
the August primary.