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Conservative Conversion Schools Functioning in U.S. marriages has reached "alarming proportions," Rabbi Derby reported, Con- Ten schools for converts servative and Reform are functioning under Con- rabbis have decided it is not servative auspices through- a violation of their prin- out the United States, ciples to convert "the non- according to a report by a Jew involved in a marriage New York rabbi who directs or a prospective marriage one of the schools. with a Jew.' Rabbi Joshua Derby of Schools for conversion Rego Park, indicated that have been developed in the development of the Rego Park; Brooklyn; in schools, under auspices of Long Beach for the Nassau- local regions of the Rabbi- Suffolk area; Miami, Mon- nical Assembly, the associ- tclair, N.J. ; Philadelphia; ation of Conservative Washington, D.C. - ; Detroit; rabbis, was a response to Chicago, and Los Angeles. the increasing pressures on Rabbi Derby said a com- the time and availability of plete course in the schools the rabbis stemming from runs from 12 to 16 weekly the growing number of can- sessions of about two hours didates for conversion. each, covering the entire Reporting on the devel- range of Judaism. The cost opment in the current issue to the prospective convert of the United Synagogue he described as "nominal," Review, Rabbi Derby adding that the Jewish part- asserted that until recent ner is required to attend the years, "rabbis of all course, at no added charge. branches of American The course is given twice a Jewry" continued to con- year so that couples con- sider conversion to Judaism templating marriage are as "highly undesirable" and not discouraged by a the prospective marriage of lengthy wait in starting the a Jew to a non-Jew who conversion process, he wishes to convert as "a per- added. He called the schools sonal tragedy and a commu- nity disaster" which they "highly successful" because made "strenuous efforts" to instruction is "thorough and prevent. The Review is the regular." He declared that quarterly publication of the of more importance was association of Conservative "the encouragement, the added spiritual strength, synagogues. Because social contact and the positive motivation between young Jews and which the students acquired non-Jews is a fact of the from the knowledge that open American society and there are so many others" because the rate of mixed planning to become Jews. BY BEN GALLOB (Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.) - Nazi-Imitating Army Officers Suspended Pend ng Hearings BONN — The West Ger- man armed forces sus- pended 11 army officers who were accused of giving the Nazi salute and taking part in a mock Jew burning ceremony as part of a drinking party. Naval Capt. Kurt Fischer of the defense ministry said the officers have been stripped of their uniforms, barred from army activity and confined to their posts until disciplinary hearings which could mean dismissal from the army. Government sources said it was certain some if not all of the officers would be thrown out of the army. The officers were sus- pended after an investigation at the Bun- deswehr (armed forces) military college in Munich by Lt. Gen. Ruediger Von Reichert, deputy com- - New Fund to Aid Israeli - Indigent JERUSALEM (JTA)— Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organiza- tion treasurer, told the WZO Executive that an emer- gency relief plan designed to alleviate the plight of 45,000 Israeli families pres- ently living in slum condi- tions will be launched soon following its approval by top United Jewish Appeal and United Israel Appeal leaders. mander of the armed forces. Fischer said Reichert reported that his investigation largely sub- stantiated press reports on the Feb. 16 incident, news of which was suppressed by college authorities' until it leaked out last week. But Fischer added, "The investigation made clear that no basic anti-Semitic feeling motivated the actions." Trials Delayed for Killers of 19,500 BONN (JTA)—Three for- mer SS officers have offi- cially gone on trial in Han- nover on charges of murder and complicity in the mur- ders of at least 19,500 Jews in Cracow, Poland between 1942 and 1944. But chances are that the defendants will be brought to justice are slim. One of the accused, Rudolf Koerner, 70, was granted a separate trial after he failed to appear in court for alleged reasons of health. His co-defendants, Kurt Heinemayer and Max Olde, both 69, claim they are med- ically unfit to stand trial. More than 100 witnesses have been called and if the trial ever gets under way it could last more than two years. Two things can't be bought: charm and luck. Friday, October 7, 1977 53 Conservatives Oppose Combining Holocaust, Tisha b'Av Observances NEW YORK—The com- mittee on resolutions of the United Synagogue of Amer- ica, congregational repre- sentative of North Ameri- can Conservative Jews, has taken a stand against the proposal that Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Day—Yom Hashoa—which is presently observed on 27 Nisan, be held on Tisha b'Av. The committee, maintain- ing that a separate Holocaust observance is essential "in order not to blur its distinctive charac- ter," will call on delegates of the United Synagogue Biennial Convention to • join Reform Join AZF NEW YORK (JTA)—At a specially convened meeting of the American Zionist Federation national board Sunday, the Association of Reform Zionists of America (ARTZA) was officially wel- comed to the ranks of the AZF by a vote of 40-19 with six abstentions. While the World Union of Progressive Judaism already belongs to the World Zionist Organization, this is the first time that American Reform Judaism on an individual Zionist membership basis will have a voice in Zionist affairs. The acceptance of ARTZA to the AZF is expected to precipitate applications by other organizations includ- ing the Conservative move- ment and the American Sephardi Federation which is an AZF affiliate. Justice Dept. Brief in Bakke Case Hit NEW YORK — The American Jewish Com- mittee, American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defa- mation League of Bnai Brith have attacked the U.S. government's brief in the Bakke case being consid- ered by the U.S. Supreme Court. The AJCommittee charged the government's brief failed to face the fact that the admission scheme used by the University of California is a quota system and therefore (con- stitutionally) uunaccep- table. The Bakke case will help decide the legality of racial quotas in college admissions. The AJCongress - said the Justice Department brief in the case was "the first step toward a disastrous system of proportional representa- tion in education and employment based on race and religion." The ADL said the brief "deliberately waffles the basic question and con- stitutes and unfortunate political push in the wrong direction." in universal support of the measure when they meet at the Concord Hotel in Kia- mesha Lake, New York, Nov. 13-17. In addition to opposing a joint observance of "the saddest period in modern Jewish history" with Tisha b'Av, the committee is urg- ing all congregations not to postpone or change, but rather hold appropriate services and memorial pro- grams on the Holocaust on 27 Nisan, (May 4, 1978) the day proclaimed by the Knesset in 1951. Poet Shalom Shabazi Grave Is Reported Razed in Yemen JERUSALEM (JTA)— The 1,000-year-old Jewish cemetery in Taiz, Yemen's alternate capital where the Yemenite Jewish poet Sha- lom Shabazi is buried, has been desectated and totally razed to the ground, accord- ing to a report that reached Yisrael Yeshayahu, speaker of the last Knesset. The report came from a highly authoritative person who recently returned from a visit to Yemen. Shabazi died about 300 years ago and his tomb was considered holy. Masses of Jews from Yemen and Aden (South Yemen) once came to it for meditation and prayer. The source wrote to Yeshayahu: "With the aid of the photographs you sent me I tried to locate the Jew- ish cemetery in Taiz and to find Shalom Shabazi's tomb. I was helped in the task by a local resident who knew his way around. The news we had already had about a road being laid across the cemetery proved to be correct. "I travelled 'back and forth along this road and neither left nor right could I see any traces of a ceme- tery—not even a single, tombstone. The appearance of the surroundings gives' evidence of their having recently been relandscaped to form houses and agricul- tural terraces. There are still signs of road building in evidence such as piles of earth...." Since the establishment of the state of Israel and the mass influx of Yemenite, Jewry, efforts were made to transfer Shabazi's remains to Israel but to no avail. Plate, Medal Honor Hatikva Composer Naphtali H. Imber NEW YORK (JTA)—In 1886 Naphtali Herz Imber, a Galician poet, wrote the words of what was to become the national anthem of the Jewish people in exile and, later, of the state of Israel—Hatikva. It was adopted as the Zionist anthem in 1907 (See The Jewish News, Sept. 30, page 48). To commemorate the anniversary, the Judaic Heritage Society commis- sioned twin projects, an eight-inch commemorative plate and a 1 1/2-inch com- memorative medal, both designed by Oscar Harris and sculpted by Carter Jones. Israel Expels Black Hebrews _JERUSALEM—Israel expelled several black American men, women and children this week who had been in custody on charges they entered the Jewish nation with plans to settle illegally. The would-be settlers, from Chicago and Detroit, were part of a sect called the Black Hebrews who hoped to settle near the Jor- dan River in the town of Dimona. Israel refused to recog- nize the sect as being Jew- ish and refused to grant them the privileges—includ- ing automatic citizenship— it grants traditional Jewish settlers. The plate portrays King David's Tower in the Old City of Jerusalem, with the words of Hatikvah in Eng- lish set against a back- ground of the Jerusalem sky. The reverse of the plate is stamped with a replica of the original poem in Hebrew, written in the poet's own hand. The medal shows a portrait of the poet and a facsimile of his hand- written poem. Talk of U.S. Base at Haifa Is Denied WASHINGTON (JTA)— Talk of a possible U.S. naval base in Haifa has blown far out of proportion the realities of such an establishment coming to pass, both United States and Israeli sources agreed. Some major newspapers prominently reported scraps of information from the closed meeting Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan held with the House International Relations Committee Sept. 20 with the implications that it was Dayan's idea. The State and Defense Departments both said no serious considerations are being given to such a base. The Israeli Embassy, not- ing Dayan was responding to a hypothetical question, said Israel' has never asked for military support from any country and will not ask for it.