24 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 29, 1919 LAWN SPRINKLERS Service Work Our Specialty 652-7651 Troops Shifted CAIRO (ZINS) — The Fourth Armored Division of the Egyptian Army has been transferred from the Sinai to the Egyptian- Libyan border. THE ASSOCIATED PODIATRISTS FOOT SPECIALISTS — FOOT SURGEONS are pleased to announce that ROBERT S. KETAI, as of June 1, 1979 has joined our Professional Corporation. Dr. Ketai, a practicing Podiatrist for 10 years and a member of the American College of Foot Surgeons, has just recently returned from California to his home state of Michigan. Mathew Borovy, D.P.M. Ronald Reifschneider D.P.M. By Appointment Tel. 548-6717 Orthodox Panel to Combat Intermarriage, Dr. Lamm Decries Intolerance of Diversity FALLSBURG, N.Y. (JTA) — The formation of a national commission on Jewish survival headed by scholars, educators and rabbis to combat assimila- tion and intermarriage was announced last week by Rabbi Bernard Rosenzweig, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, at the 43rd annual convention of the Orthodox group at the Pineview Hotel here. "Intermarriage has catastrophic reached levels," he said. "In many communities the rate ex- ceeds 50 percent. If this trend is not reversed, the whole fabric of Jewish communal structure will suffer irreparable damage. The problem of intermar- riage among our college youth is particularly severe and constitutes a serious threat to Jewish corn- EXCALIBUR Hair Styling Salon FULL TIME PROTECTION FROM MARV CHECK • • • • Burglary Vandalism Fire Personal Attack MARV ROSEN AM Price You Can Afford NO IFONE Automancally Notifies within seconds Police Dept. a Fire Dept. Central Office riidden Wire Installotio. 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"Diversity within the discipline of Jewish law," Lamm explained, "is a re- flection of the dynamics of our faith. The sages of the Talmud offered varying opinions but a harmonious unity emerged to guide Jewish practice. In philosophic thought a variety of systems coexisted, each reflecting one of the 70 faces of the To- rah. A mutual respect of each other's singularity in interpretation and style generally prevailed." Lamm also said "one can even respect the dissenting views of the Satmar Hasidim in their anti- Zionism but one must ut- terly reject their going pub- lic, thereby giving encouragement and strength to the enemies of our people. One can allow for the good intentions and integrity of the so-called `doves' in Israel who argue for greater concessions to the Arabs but it is irrespon- sible and indefensible to ex- press these views through the columns of the anti- Zionist press. "Within Orthodoxy, pluralism is to be welcomed as a healthy phenomenon. A narrow authoritarianism which assigns pejorative labels to contrary views must be resisted as totally destructive:" also Rosenzweig criticized those Reform rab- bis who solemnize inter- marriages. "We must not become tolerant of this can- cerous growth which can only destroy Jewish ranks," he declared. Rosenzweig also decried the recently announced campaign of Reform Judaism to actively seek converts from unaffiliated Christians. "This is an ir- responsible and shocking endeavor which can only evoke the enmity of the Christian world toward Jews," he said. "It took several decades of interfaith contact to con- vince both Catholic- and Protestant ranks to suspend their missionary efforts among Jews. We persuaded them that such acts offend us, deeply. Now for Reform Judaism to initiate a mis- sionizing campaign among Christians is the height of indiscretion and is calcu- lated to cause much harm. No one group in Jewish life has a right to take steps which can adversely affect the entire American Jewish community," he said. Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva Uni- versity, decried the "in- tolerant fragmentization which endangers the con- tinued vitality and creativ- ity of the Orthodox Jewish community in the United States." At the same session, Julius Berman, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, declared "there are urgent immediate prob- lems facing the Orthodox Jewish world which require the cooperation of all groups, regardless of their differing ideologies and emphases, if we are to sur- vive the dangers which threaten us all. The com- petitive intolerance and di- visive parochialism within Orthodoxy drain our strength and dilute our ef- fectiveness. "The common enemy is secularism and religious ignorance, and it is impera- tive that we find a common ground on which to cooper- ate in the preservation of our Torah way of life," he said. The Orthodox rabbis' body also denounced Re- form Jewish leaders for sponsoring- combined synagogue-church services. Selective Boycott on Kosher Food Asked By Rabbi ' FALLSBURG, N.Y. (JTA) — A "selected boycott" of the kosher food market was urged by Rabbi Bernard Rosenzweig, president of the Rabbinical Council of America. He de- nounced "the profiteering which exploits Jewish con- sumers," at the 43rd annual convention of Orthodox rabbis: "The prices of kosher foods, particularly prior to Jewish holidays, is uncons- cionable," he said. "The ensurement of kashrut in itself cannot account for such astronomical prices which reflects greed with- out conscience. Young couples struggle under the impact of such exploitation and undoubtedly as a result, find themselves unable to maintain their religious ob- r servance." "I suggest," Rosenzweig added, "that organized Jewish communities under- take selected boycotts to force legislation of unjusti- fiably high prices. 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