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Mideast Arms Aid Proposed
WASEINGTON (JTA)
— The Ford Administra-
tion Wednesday gave
Congress proposals to
provide a total of about $5
billion in military equip-
ment and services to Is-
rael, Iran, Pakistan and
Saudi Arabia, the State
Department said.
Department spokes-
man Robert Funseth said
the proposals were being
-made to enable Congress
to have the necessary 30
days for consideration of
the sales before the
scheduled adjournment
Oct. 2 for the Presidential
election campaign.
Funseth pointed out
that the $5 .billion does
not represent the "total
programs for the coun-
tries concerned," but only-
those parts that Congress.
WORRIED ??
may be able to consider in
its present session.
Meanwhile, the State
Department has denied
that Israel is exporting to
South Africa arms and
technology it has acquired
from the United States.
A reporter asked if the
department is "aware"
that Israel is violating
U.S. restrictions on such
exports. Funseth replied
that "Israel has not viol-
ated any restrictions' . of
the transfer clause that is
in all U.S. agreements
with countries receiving
such equipment or
technology.
AJCommittee
Honors Swede
NEW YORK — Bjorn
Ahlstrom, president of
Volvo of America Corp.,
has been selected to re-
ceive the human rela-
tions award of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee's
automotive division. The
award is presented each
year to a leader in the au-
tomotive field who has
"demonstrated a deep
and sensitive concern
with the welfare of . the
community and with the
need to promote healthy
intergroup relations."
The award will be pre-
sented to Ahlstrom at a
dinner on Oct. 19 at the
Plaza Hotel in New York.
Proceeds of the $175 per
plate function will help
support the programs of
the AJCommittee here
and overseas.
Rabbi Says Opposition Is Up
On Efforts to Convert Non-Jews
conversions carried out
by such rabbis.
Liberal-minded Jews
A Conservative rabbi who oppose conversions
has asserted there is include some who do so be-
"considerable opposi- cause they consider it im-
tion" among American proper, woven unethical "to
Jews to efforts to convert wean persons from the re-
non-Jews which he said is ligions of their birth or
concentrated among Or- choice. After all, if all reli-
thodox Jews, Jews with a gions are good, it is. 'bad
"liberal outlook" and form' to suggest that yours
Jews who regard converts is better."
as "somehow deceitful or
He suggested that "at
dangerous."
the root of this reluc-
Rabbi Gilbert Kollin, tance" among American
deputy director of the Jews to seek converts
Jewish Welfare Board's "lies a deep•-seated insec-
commission on Jewish urity, even fear."
chaplaincy, who strongly
Rabbi Kollin said many
favors such conversion Jews "have a gut : level
efforts, offered his suspicion" that the more
analysis in "Keeping "religious" a Christian is,
Posted," a publication of the more likely he is to be
the Union of American anti-Jewish. He declared
Hebrew Congregations, this suspicion has "deep
the association of Reform roots" in the European
synagogues:
experience where or-
Rabbi Kollin declared ganized official govern-
ment policies of anti-
that Orthodox Jews are
convinced that Conserva- Semitism "were so often
intimately associated
tive and Reform Judaism
"are transient, tempor- with/ the dominant reli-
ary reactions to modern gion."
Finally, he said, there
life" and have no real fu-
ture. Therefore, in Or- are those Jews who are
thodoxy's view, "this convinced that converts
issue of Jewish survival is cannot be real Jews or that
best served by standing they must have ulterior
firm on Orthodoxy's claim motives.
to sole Jewish authentic-
Rabbi Kollin asserted
ity.". He said this is the that what such Jews are
'reason why Orthodox au- really saying is that they
thorities refuse to recog- cannot understand "why
-religious anybody who does not
nize "the
legitimacy" of non- have to be Jewish would
Orthodox rabbis and of want to become Jewish."
• BY BEN GALLOB
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