28 Friday, September 1, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Joint Bet Din Attempt Disclosed
Kelman try to resurrect
such negotiations to develop
A key Conservative rab- an "internationally recog-
binical leader has disclosed nized joint Bet Din for the
that intensive negotiations purpose of certifying rabbis
were held in 1953 to estab- competent to perform uni-
lish a joint Bet Din (rabbini- versally acceptable conver-
cal court) under sponsorship sions."
In his letter, Rabbi
of the Conservative Rabbin-
ical Assembly and the Or- Kelman reported that the
thodox Rabbinical Council effort to creat such a joint
American Bet Din col-
of America (RA).
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, RA lapsed when, in January
executive vice president, 1954, 11 Roshei Yeshiva
described the attempt in a (Orthodox academy
letter to Rabbi Rene Werner heads) issued a rabbini-
of the Asociacion Israelita cal ban on cooperation
Montefiore in Bogota, Col- between Orthodox, Con-
servative and Reform
ombia.
Free Estimates On
Rabbi Kelman also dis- rabbis in general, and
10 years of service
closed that, at a meeting specifically, the partici-
Installations
with Premier Menahem pation of Orthodox rab-
Begin in August 1977, he bis in the Synagogue
had reported on the futile ef- Council of America and
fort to create a united in boards of rabbis which
American Bet Din and that typically have Orthodox,
Begin suggested Rabbi Conservative and Re-
form rabbis.
Despite occasional rumbl-
ings in the Orthodox leader-
ship, the Rabbinical Coun-
cil has never left the
Synagogue Council and Or-
thodox rabbis , remain on
boards of rabbis.
Rabbi Kelman wrote
on their new appointments
Rabbi Werner that the
closest we had to such a Bet
Din here in North America
was under the auspices of
Principal of Akiva Hebrew Day School
the Jewish Welfare Board
which had a committee con-
sisting of Reform Rabbi
Solomon Freehof as chair-
man, Conservative Rabbi
Dean Midrasha College of Jewish Studies
David Aronson and Or-
thodox Rabbi Leo Jung.
We wish them a year of
Rabbi Kelman wrote that
the committee issued
Great Leadership & Hatzlacha
halakhic responsa on behalf
of the JWB Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy for mili-
Consultant, Rabbi James I. Gordon
President, Dr. Arnold Singerman
tary chaplains in the U.S.
armed forces.
Rabbi Kelman re-
ported that the ban "ef-
fectively severed all
further cooperative ef-
forts" and led to "the
closing out of the joint
Law Committee of the
JWB" and "the coopera-
tive efforts" of represen-
tatives of the RA, the
Rabbinical Council and
the (Reform) Central
Conference of American
Rabbis "which had
begun the new transla-
tion of the Bible for the
Jewish Publication
Society."
Rabbi Kelman wrote that
for the Six Million Jews who perished in Europe at the Hands of the Nazis .. .
Begin, after his talk with
Rabbi Kelman, "placed a
which will be held on
personal call to a very inf-
luential and representative
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
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leader of American Or-
thodoxy as a result of which
I had one clandestine meet-
ing with him and several
telephone conversations
which ended with our
mutual recognition that
these efforts were still pre-
mature and that militant
Orthodox separatism was
likely to get a lot worse be-
fore it gets better, if ever."
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