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14 Friday, March 18, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Judge Elan, MK Herzog in Presidential Showdown Tuesday
JERUSALEM (JTA) — ment candidate is MK
The election of Israel's next Chairm Herzog, a former
President by the Knesset Ambassador to the United
next Tuesday will be a Nations and Israel Defense
close-run race, with the Force general.
While the Likud coalition
winner squeaking in by a
slim margin of votes. This is majority — 64-56 — could
the universal prediction in ostensibly ensure Elon the
the political community fol- victory, pundits note that in
lowing the submission last a secret ballot — required in
Friday by the Likud coali- voting for the President —
tion and the Labor Align- surprises cannot be ruled
ment opposition of the out. Moreover, Elon's re-
liance on all coalition mem-
names of their candidates.
The Likud candidate is bers does not seem iron-
Surpeme Court Justice clad: Tami with its three
Menahem Elon, an Or- seats is seen as questiona-
thodox scholar. The align- ble.
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Its leader, Aharon Abu
Hatzeira, was quoted as
saying that the party's
decision-making commit-
tees would be convened
this week to instruct the
three MKs on how to vote.
Abu Hatzeira was also
quoted as saying that the
fact that he had joined
with other coalition fac-
tion leaders in endorsing
Elon did not necessarily
oblige Tami to vote for
him.
Elon, an ordained rabbi,
and ultra-observant Jew,
may also seem "too Or-
thodox," especially to some
of the Likud-Liberal MKs.
servances, is considered - 1
more liberal. He may also
benefit from being a Knes-
set member, well liked
within all factions, and
much better known among
the general public by dint of
his former public careers.
Herzog, on the other
hand, though also tradi-
tional in his religious ob-
* * *
Israeli Rabbinate Elects New Chief Rabbis
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Rabbis Avraham Shapiro
and Mordehai Eliahu won
substantial victories in the
Chief Rabbinate elections
Tuesday to become Israel's
Ashkenazic and Sephardic
Chief Rabbis, respectively.
Both were strongly backed
by the National Religious
Party and were supported
by Laborite electors as well.
Shapiro, 65, is a sixth-
generation Jerusalemite, a
judge of the Supreme Rab-
binical Court and Dean of
the Merkaz Harav Kook
yeshiva. Eliahu, who was
born in Iraq, is also a Sup-
reme Religious Court judge.
Shapiro received 80
votes to 39 for his closest
rival, Rabbi Yitzhak
Kolitz who had the back-
ing of the Agudat Israel.
A third Ashkenazic can-
Israel PAC at Issue
By BEN GALLOB
ported that recently, his
synagogue, Cong. Solel in
Declaring that American Highland Park, Ill. had
Jews "have experienced in- been urged "to participate
creasing pressure to create in organizing such groups."
Political Action Commit-
Marx declared that be-
tees (PACs) designed to cause a PAC is organized on
support pro-Israel candi- a single issue and its sup-
dates," an Illinois Reform porters are induced "to
rabbi has appealed to Jews judge candidates on the
to reject such pressures on basis of that cause," distin-
grounds that such commit- guished public servants "all
tees "are bad for America too often" have been de-
and they are bad for Jews." feated for taking a stand op-
The warning was con- posed to that of a particular
tained in an article in the PAC. He insisted candi-
Winter 1983 issue of Reform dates should be judged "by
Judaism, the scholarly pub- their total performance."
lication of the Union of
He argued that PACs
American Hebrew Congre-
tend to polarize not only
gations.
Rabbi Robert Marx re- voters but also politicians,
who "become fearful" of
doing anything that might
displease "the particular
group that has supported
them in the past."
Marx argued PACs tend
to do the necessary research
for politicians. Ike asserted
that "instead of examining
all sides of an issue, politi-
cians are encouraged to rely
upon research the PAC of-
fers to them," leading the
politicians to positions that
are "dogmatic rather than
well-researched."
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
Bar-Ilan Visit
by Zaire Prof.
Initiates Ties
RAMAT GAN — Future
academic cooperation in
mutual fields between Bar-
Ilan University and univer-
sities in Zaire was estab-
lished last month when
Prof. Chizungu
Rudahindwa, director of the
National Center for Coordi-
nation and Development of
Zaire visited Bar-Ilan.
During the course of his
visit, Prof. Chizungu toured
the campus and the Life
Sciences laboratories where
he was updated on the uni-
versity's latest scientific
projects. Following this
tour, he headed a col-
loquium with leading fa-
culty members in which
they discussed mutual
fields of academic interest
including; Rural Develop-
ment, Manpower Planning,
Education and Linguistics.
didate, Haifa Chief Rabbi
Shear Yashuv Cohen,
polled 17 votes in the
150-man electoral col-
lege.
On the Sephardic side,
Eliahu won 87 votes to 49
for Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-
Doron who was also sup-
ported by the Agudat Israel.
The two new Chief Rabbis
succeed Ashkenazic Chief
Rabbi Shlomo Goren and
Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef who both
served 10-year terms and
were barred by law from
standing for re-election.
`Jews for Jews' Rabbi Hits
Tactics of Proselytizers
MIAMI BEACH — Rabbi
Rubin R. Dobin of the Jews
for Jews organization has
warned Jewish groups not
to be misled by the "Liber-
ated Wailing Wall Singers,"
a group of proselytizers
from "Jews for Jesus" who
offer to perform free con-
certs for Jewish groups and
misuse the invitation to
spread their propaganda.
Jews for Jews has pub-
lished an "Anti-Cult and
Missionary Kit" which con-
tains information for com-
batting proselytizing
groups. For a free copy of the
kit, send a long, self-
addressed stamped
envelope to Rabbi Rubin R.
Dobin, Jews for Jews,
P.O.B. 54-6194, Miami Be-
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