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 Jewish Courses on Cassette from People's U. NEW YORK — The Jewish People's University is offering a series of courses on Jewish subjects produced on cassettes. The courses are on Yid- dish and Hebrew literature, Jewish history, the Ameri- can Jewish experience, and trends and problems of con- temporary Jewish life in America, Israel and other parts of the world. They are geared for home listening and for use in adult classes or study-groups in schools, community centers and congregations, senior citi- zens clubs and other organ- izations. 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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 were condemned by the university's president, A. Bartlett Giamatti, and by two Jewish professors, John' Hollander, professor of English, and Harold Bloom, professor of the humanities. 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. 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