24 Friday, November 28, 1980 THE IITROli JEWISH NEWS Argentine Anti-Communists Lash Jews and Catholics NEW YORK — Catholics and Jews came under attack at a recent anti-Communist congress held in Buenos Aires, it was revealed by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. According to Rabbi Mor- ton M. Rosenthal, director Ltin.American of. Affairs Depaiiment, "ele- ments of fascism, neo- Nazism and anti-Semitism were manifest" among the 200 delegates to the Fourth Congress of the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation which met in early September. The confederation is an affiliate of the World Anti- Communist League which, Rabbi Rosenthal said, has been penetrated by activists — financed by Saudi Ara- bians — who have joined forces with "diverse" ele- ments of the international ultra-right." These, he said, are linked with Liberty Lobby, the Washington- based, ultra-right and anti-Semitic organization led by Willis A. Carto, and to MSI, the principle neo- fascist party in Italy. Rabbi Rosenthal noted that the Argentine news- paper, La Prensa, report- ing on the conference, said that an accredited delegate had told a Brazi- . Tian journalist, "the Jews are responsible for Mar- xist infiltration of the continent . . . the moment will soon come when we will exterminate all of them." Rabbi Rosenthal said passage of a resolution de- nouncing Catholic clergy in Latin America came as a surprise to Argentine ob- servers. The congress called on Latin American .gov- ernments to expel from their territories "all Mar- xist Jesuit, neo-colonizers." The Jesuits were accused of organizing rural guer- rilla movements under the pretext of evangelization, Rabbi Rosenthal said. Dur- ing the conference, Lt. Col. Luis Canedo Reyes, an aide to the chief of staff of the Bolivian armed forces, urged that the Archbishop of La Paz, Jorge Manrique, be expelled because of oppo- sition to the military junta which recently seized power in Bolivia. The Congress, ADL re- ported, also criticized President Carter for aiding Marxism . through his human rights policy and hailed Argentina, Bolivia and other Latin American nations for their "courage- ous stand" against Ameri- can "intimidation." NEVER MISS-AN IMPORTANT CALL AGAIN Only $29 per month for just $29 per month you can have your phone answered (24 hours, 7 days a week) and all your important messages taken in a reliable and effec- tive manner— no impersonal machines greet your friends and business associates when they call — those who know prefer the friendly, reliable serv- ANSAFONE. ice — Call Us Today ANSAFONE 336-2223 or 569-2995 Women's Rights and Changing Society: A Renewal of Social Justice in Judaism By FRANCINE KLAGSBRUN (Editor's note: This ar- ticle is based on Ms. Klagsbrun's address to the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, discussing her most re- cent book, The Voices of Wisdom: Jewish Ideals and Ethics for Everyday Living" published by . Pantheon.) There is an area in which the ethic is not one of social justice but rather of discrimination and inequal- ity — that of women's rights in Judaism. The issue is simply this. The Bible and the Talmud, and later Jewish writings, regard women as subservient to men, as mothers and daugh- ters to be treated with kind- ness and care, but not with equality. • Women are restricted in their rights to give tes- timony, to take part fully in at least synagogue services, to attain the full breadth of Jewish scholarship that has always been open to men. The discriminations are not unique within the contexts of the times in which the major documents- of Judaism were compiled, but what is difficult to under- stand is why they still exist. - Jewish law has always been open and fluid, con- taining within itself mechanisms for change. The rabbis of the Talmud, using interpretaiton- and exegesis, restricted and changed laws of capital punishment or laws of phys- ical retaliation, and un- doubtedly were moving in the direction of liberalizing laws relating to women. They provided for a written marriage con- tract (Ketuba) that would protect the rights of a wife in the case of death or divorce; they' estab- lished broad and lenient grounds upon which a • • • • 0. • • • • • • • - • • • •••••••••• BRING THIS. AD• • • • • • 1/2 OFF THE REGULAR MEMBERSHIP • • (One free preview when signing • • as a member with this ad) • PREVIEW THESE MOVIES PLUS • • HUNDREDS MORE TO SELECT FROM • . Only • • North Dallas Forty • Blots Potters balm Gigolo Ike Fog • "10" • Muppet Movie Stx Trek Nor All That kin • Start* $ 0 • Alien • Jaws Little Dorliogs Spiro. 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It is blindness to among Jews, and ng tual bill of divorcement suppose that by officially something about _ . it still had to come from the stressing only the tradi- means acknowledging man; they abolished the tional values of women as that suicide rates, drugs humiliating trial by mothers and homemakers, and alcohol among - ordeal for a woman ac- Jewish women will in any Jewish teenagers are not cused of adultery; and way curtail their activities far removed from the na- they provided women in society at large — will tional rates — and doing with broader rights and choose not to pursue something about it. protection within the careers, not to explore op- Social justice means pay- context of existing laws tions that might preclude marriage or limit the ing attention to the of inheritance. Many of these liberal ten- number of children they alienated, lonely and con- fused individuals in our dencies were closed off in rear. Changes have occurred society, and reaching out to later periods, however, when Jews, crowded in throughout society, and in help. ghettos and faced with con- family life generally, and in Social justice means over; stant threats of anti- Jewish family life in par- coming psychological and Semitism, pulled back ticular. But the way to cope historical fears and giving within themselves. But with them. is not to run women the equality that is even then, new laws during away or to try to turn back their right within the the Middle Ages forbade the clock, but to use all the. Jewish tradition. Only polygamy for men; new laws instruments of Jewish then, from positions of forbade a man's divorcing a ethics, of Jewish social jus- strength and power, can woman without her con- tice to meet the problems men and women, working head on. together, get on with the sent. Social justice today business of confronting the Why then has the cry for change today been greeted means focusing — and not many pressing problems of with so much emotionalism; just with lip service — on society. so much bitter conflict? For all the learned talk about Halakha and scholarship, the real issue is a deeply dis- By HERZL SHUR turbing psychological bar- America is destined to become rier to change in this area. A great center of Jewish education Along with the simple fear From the Atlantic to the Pacific of the different, fear of Yes — throughout the entire nation. breaking away from things as they were, there is fear Our opportunity is here within the Jewish commu- To supply the spark nity —mainly among men, Of Jewish learning but among women also — of To all Jews in the dark. the effects of women's equality on the family. We are greater in number There is an unspoken Than we were in the days feeling that if only we can When Rome conquered Judea hold out against the cries for And set Jerusalem ablaze. change, the issues will somehow go away; if we do We were scattered then not legalize equality for To the four corners of the earth women , Judaism, the But the teachings of the Torah Jewish family will somehow Have proven their worth. remain intact. The fears are indeed There always remained real; family life has been -- A substantial remnant revolutionized in the past That kept our tradition decades; the women's Alive and pre-eminent. Jewish Educdtion Bar-Ilan Moves Famous Mural . • • • • • • • • • • • • • a‘w abstw vftt.... ..- A valuable wall painting from the home of the late Batya and David Kotlar in Ramat Gan, has been successfully transferred to Bar-Ilan University after three months of intensive effort. The mural, entitled "Ingathering of the Exiles to Jerusalem," was executed by the renowned Israeli painter Marcel Janco in 1950- 52. The inscription on the 31/2-foot by 74 -foot mural reads, "When He will gather the ire ir ire • a'. •:r exiles' 'unto the city' a • • • 569-2330 •• •