Int WHIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 11, 1H19 11 Rabbi May Keep Beard, Suit Unsettled for Others NEW YORK (JTA) — The decision of the Air Force to drop its opposition to the wearing of a beard by Rabbi Alan M. Kalinsky of Bangor, Maine, while he serves an an Air Force re- serve chaplain, does not set- tle the issue and the battle will be continued, Howard LOWEST PRICES Cassette Dictating Transcribing Machines 342-7801 Zuckerman, president of the National Jewish Commis- sion on Law and Public Af- fairs (COLPA), said. For more than a year, the Air Force rejected a request by Rabbi Kalinsky that he be permitted to maintain his beard. Rabbi -Kalinsky, a 28-year-old Orthodox rabbi, refused to shave off his beard on religious grounds and was placed on inactive status in January 1978. 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Zuckerman noted that in a separate affidavit, the Air Force said its grooming re- quirements would be changed for other reserve chaplains, but not for any- one else, including chap- lains on duty. Zuckerman said there was no guarantee that the ban on beards would not be reinstated for reserve chaplains. He said for these reasons, Rabbi Kalinsky will oppose the Air Force's anticipated effort to have the case dis- missed in federal court be- cause of the concessions to Rabbi Kalinsky, including his reinstatement in the active reserve. Butler said the limita- tion permitting beards only to chaplains on re- serve was "clearly arbit- rary" and that the Air Force action affectively diminished the Air Force contention that requiring its personnel to be clean- shaven was essential to the effective functioning of its personnel. 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