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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 9, 1919 11

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Orthodox Homes for Retarded Men, Women in Brooklyn

The facility is loCated in a
three-story rehabilitated
The only residence residence in which 10
facility in Brooklyn for re- women, ranging in ages
tarded Jewish women from 18 to 30, with most of
adults under traditional au- them in their 20s, live in a
spices, Bais Ezra, is now traditional atmosphere,
functioning with 10 such Kaufman said. The Bais
women in the Borough Park Ezra residence was opened
section, according to Lester last July.
Kaufman, executive direc-
lay
Orthodox
tor of the Ohel Children's
An
- Women's League has de-
Home of Brooklyn.

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

The Debate Over Conversion

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

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are ambivalent out of con-
cern that encouraging the
non-Jewish spouse to con-
vert might lower the bar-
riers to mixed marriage. He
said such Jews feel it is safer
to discourage interfaith dat-
ing altogether than to take
a chance on "winning" the
gentile for Judaism.
In rebuttal, Rabbi Mailer
said that in Britain and
South Africa, the rabbis
"make it very hard for a
non-Jew to convert," and in
Argentina "there has been a
general ban on conversion
for over 40 years" but in•all
three countries, there has
been a steady rise in the
nuaber of mixed mar-
riages, especially "in the
last five years."

NEW YORK — A
California Reform rabbi
who strongly favors and-
personally implements ef-
forts to convert non-Jews
has asserted, that the com-
bination of ambivalent
Jewish attitudes toward
conversion and the practice
of simply urging Jews not to
date and not to marry non-
Jews could be a "major
threat" to Jewish survival
in the United States.
Rabbi Allen Mailer of
Culver City also asserted, in
an article in `Sh'ma," that
"unless the Jewish commu-
nity is willing to welcome
non-Jews into the Jewish
community, their families
and their children will be
lost•to us." He asserted the
Jerusalem Day
Jewish community must
Program Planned
display "the same hospital-
ity and warmth toward
NEW YORK — "A major
strangers • that the rabbis
campaign to promote Yom
said characterized the first
Yerushalayim throughout
great Jewish convert, Ab-
the United States has now
raham."
been launched, but the suc-
He declared the best solu- cess of out endeavors will
tion to the problem of mixed
demand the full cooperation
marriage is the conversion
of the organized American
to Judaism of the non- Zionist and Jewish commu-
Jewish spouse. On that as- nity," announced Rabbi
sumplion, he added, it was Joseph P. Sternstein,
strange that "rabbis, president of the American
families and the organized Zionist Federation.
community have such nega-
"The • centrality of
tive or passive attitudes Jerusalem in Jewish life
toward converts." Rabbi throughout the ages is an
Mailer described several undisputed fact," declared
fears among Jews about Sternstein, "and we must
converts as the source of muster all of our support,
such attitudes.
influence,- and determina-
One, he declared, was tion to ensure that unified
that some Jews feel that Jerusalem remains under
conversion does not Israeli administration."
really. make a difference
"We can be certain," he
and that "when the pres- continued, "that the future
sure is on, the gentile will status ofJerusalem will be-
turn on the spouse and - come a major issue for
curse the 'dirty Jew.' " negotiation. "Thus," he ad-
He said that for many monished, "American
such Jews, including Jewry must act decisively
rabbis, the "mhjor root" now to make certain that
of their Jewish identity is the American public and
anti-Semitism.
the Carter administration
For such Jews, "you are are fully apprised of our
born a Jew and you die a firm and unwavering posi-
Jew. The kind of Jew you tion."
are — learned or ignorant,
"The AZF program," ex-
religious or not, active or plained Sternstein, "is a
inactive — is of no great two-fold one, with the main
thrust taking place on
significance."
Asserting that Judaism Jerusalem Day itself, May
teaches that a convert "is 24. On this day, cities across
more beloved of God than the United States will re-
even those Jews who stood name a main thoroughfare
at Mount Sinai," Rabbi Mal- `Jerusalem Street' for the
ler said that anti- day. This will be a major
conversion Jews who hold public relations effort and
"this semi-racist viewpoint" will be preceded and sup-
are steadily diminishing in ported by an ongoing peti-
number, though their tion campaign directed
negativism still blocks toward official U.S. recogni-
organization and families tion ofJerusalem as the cap-
"when they try to encourage ital of Israel."
a gentile spouse in a mixed
Israel exported $1.4 mil-
marriage to convert."
Another factor, he re- lion worth of religious books
ported, is that some Jews in 1977-78.

parent couple, serving
under Allen Wax, Bais
Ezra director, who has a
master's degree in psy-
chology.

veloped a similar facility for
10 men in Borough Park
There are 10 men residents
in that facility. The two
residential homes are, the
only ones for retarded Jews
under Orthodox auspices in
Brooklyn, Kaufman re-
ported.

The residents have indi-
vidual rooms on the second
and third floors. There is a
recreation room in the
basement. There is a dairy
kitchen and dining facilities
on one floor and a meat
kitchen and dining facilities
on another floor.
The women attend a local
synagogue and the Borough
Park Y for recreational
facilities and have access to
the services of the nearby
Maimonides Mental Clinic.

He said the 10 women
are transported by bus to
and from sheltered
workshops during the
day in various parts of
Brooklyn, where they
participate in work-
related activities. There
are seven residential
counselors at Bais Ezra,
including a live-in house

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