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A Conservative scholar has asserted that some Jews who decide as adults to ob- serve Jewish religious law (Halakha) "all too often abandon all judgment as they immerse themselves in the tradition," adopting as a yardstick the proposition "the more the better" in ob- servance. The observation was made by Elliot Dorff, asso- ciate professor of philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, the West Coast branch of the Jewish Theological Semi- nary of America. Dean of graduate studies at the uni- versity, Dorff presented his views in the November issue of "Direction," the university's monthly news- paper. Asserting that Jews throughout the United States and Canada are tak- ing a renewed interest in Halakha, Dorff declared that one of the factors un- derlying 'this renewed at- tention is the current atti- tude in America that "ethnic is in" and many Jews see observance as a way of 'expressing, them- selves ethnically. Dorff added that this renewed involvement with Halakha is more pronounced in the Con- servative movement than it is among Orthodox or Reform Jews. He ex- plained that in Or- thodoxy, "the law is the law and you either accept it or reject it," while in Reform, "it is a matter of individual decision as tko whether or not one will observe a given set of • laws, like those of kas- hrut." Holding that there are both rabbis and lay leaders within the Conservative movement who are in- , terested in greater stringency in applying Halakha to conditions of daily life, Dorf added he considered this a positive development because it re- presented a swing of the pendulum towards Jewish tradition and because it indicated that a segment of Conservative Judaism wanted the discipline, structure and rootedness which, he said, observance of Jewish law provides. In arguing that some Yeshiva Names Native of Flint NEW YORK — Leonard Fink, a Flint, Mich. native, will direct Yeshiva Univer- sity's news and media oper- ations, having served that university's Public Rela- tions Department for a year. Fink is a 1979 graduate of Yeshiva University. Before joining Yeshiva's Public Re- lations Department, he pro- duced and directed the nightly Bernard Meltzer radio talk-show in New- York City. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fink of Flint. adult Jews returning to ob- servance overdo it, Dorff said that for such JeWs "there is seldom a sense that certain aspects of the tradi- tion should be benignly ig- nored if not changed out- right." He asserted that "a sense of proportion" on what re- mains appropriate "is some- thing that often comes- naturally to those who have grown up in the tradition. They have seen it in prac- tice and can relate to it as the organic phenomenon that it is." Those who have not had the experience, he contended "are ignorant of Jewish law and feel in- adequate" and try to cover that feeling of in- adequacy "by adopting the most extreme posi- tion of Jewish practice." Dorff listed as indications of what he considered a re- vival of interest in obser- vance of Jewish law, an in- crease in synagogue adult education courses on methods of observance; re- newed interest in the status of women in Conservative Judaism; changes in tradi- tional Jewish attitudes on abortion; and a decision several years ago by the movement's law committee that driving on the Sabbath is permissible if it is for the purpose of attending synagogue services. He said Jewish lay lead- ers had become more „sophisticated in matters of Jewish law and said this was largely due to improved educational programs in the movement. 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