Rabbinical Alliance Is Planning
Anti-Family Planning Campaign
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Rabbinical Alliance, an
Orthodox group, has
launched a campaign
through its 500 member-
rabbis to persuade Jewish
couples to reject the concept
and practice of family plan-
ning.
In a call to American
Jews to repudiate that con-
cept, Rabbi Abraham
Hecht, "Rabbinical Alliance
resident, said that any
41111 form of family planning is
"a threat to the existence of
the Jewish people." He said
Jews in America should
have large families, citing
the biblical admonition to
"be-fruitful and multiply."
Hecht acknowledged that
one of the main "excuses"
for not having large
families was "financial
stress." However, he added,
"unlike even a half-century
ago, Jews in America now
have ample means to sup-
port large families."
Hecht cited a recent
statement by Rabbi
Menahem Schneerson,
the Lubavitcher rebbe,
who also made a strong
appeal against birth con-
trol. He said "the actual
effects of family planning
have been, and are, emo-
tional upsets, frustra-
tions, strained relation-
ship between husband
Rabbi Raps Yale Hiring,
Admission Policy of Jews
NEW YORK — Rabbi
Arnold Jacob Wolf, Jewish
chaplain at Yale University
who is leaving his post for a
Chicago pulpit, called the
university "callous" in its
treatment of Jews.
Speaking at a Yom Kip-
pur service at the univer-
sity, Rabbi Wolf said that he
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Yeshiva Names
Consultant for
Honors Unit
NEW YORK — Dr. Shel-
don Rothblatt, historian
and associate director of the
Center for Studies in
Higher Education at the
University of California at
Berkeley, has been named
consultant towards the es-
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did not call the university
anti-Semitic in its addition
to the faculty of Jews or ad-
mission of Jewish students.
He called it callousness.
He remarked that the
university had a "long and
dishonorable history of
anti-Semitism" and that re-
sulted in the "exclusion" of
Jews from both the faculty
and the student body.
"That history stopped
15 or 20 years ago when
they put lots of Jews on
the faculty and admitted
lots of Jewish students."
Rabbi Wolf's statements
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university's president, A.
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English, and Harold Bloom,
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and wife, all of which is
inevitably taking a toll in
ill health. "
The Lubavitcher rebbe
asserted that family plan-
ning "has caused such
couples to seek
psychoanalysis,
psychotherapy and mar-
riage counseling in an ef-
fort, often futile to
straighten matters out."
Hecht said he and fellow
members of the Rabbinical
Alliance would regularly
deliver sermons against the
concept of family planning
and would distribute news-
letters and bulletins
against it.
He said the organization
members plan to call special
meetings of sisterhoods of
congregations served by
Rabbinical Alliance mem-
bers to alert women con-
gregants to the dangers of
family planning.
Friday, October 10, 1980 21
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