1:911,1V:! 1111.1,1 71' RI, 16 • Friday, March 25, 1983 — 11 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS CCAR Vote: Jewish Offspring, Settlements ARDMORE SHOE REPAIR Mile & Middlebelt 474-8585 LOS ANGELES — The Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform) voted last week to Wishes their friends & customers A HAPPY PESACH Have A Happy PESACH from T.H. Grant & Staff Phone 851-7333 Ac t•-•''' `5"Pl'Illit7r1- 1\\:\\.42 ...\\ '‘:.F.% li -, inc. tlrii : OKI 31313 ,:ki NiPl''':'''1: , -.-„,‘,•A; , ,,,,... ...idatt_lin 31313 Northwestern • Suite 109 • Farmington Hills; Michigan 48018 All the people at Northland wish you and yours the for a happy Passover. "presume" that a child of an intermarried couple is Jewish if either of the par- ents are Jewish. The vote changes for the Reform Movement the tra- ditional Jewish concept of a child being Jewish only if the mother is Jewish or the person undergoes formal conversion. The CCAR's resolution stated: This presumption of the Jewish status of the offspring of any mixed marriage is to be estab- lished through appropri- ate and timely public and formal acts of identifica- tion with the Jewish faith and people. The per- formance of these mitzvot serves to commit those who participate in them, both parent and child, to Jewish life. "Depending on circum- stances, mitzvot leading toward a positive and exclu- sive Jewish identity will in- clude entry into the Cove- nant, acquisition of a He- brew name, Torah study, Bar/Bat Mitzva and Kabalat Torah (Confirma- tion). "For those beyond child- hood claiming Jewish iden- tity, other public acts or dec- larations may be added or substituted after consulta- tion with their rabbi." The CCAR's 94th annual convention, held in Los Angeles, also adopted a resolution calling on Israel to temporarily halt its set- tlement activity in the ad- ministered territories in order to encourage Jordan to join the peace process. The resolution stated: "While Israel itself must be the judge of its own security needs, these _ decisions also have a fundamental impact on the moral character of Jewish life and on the democratic nature of the Jewish state." Therfore, it said, "We be- lieve that the legitimate demands of security for Is- rael can — and must 7-- be efforts to discuss with the reconciled with the dignity, Soviet Union a reduction in human rights and the right the numbers of nuclear of self-determination of weapons. Palestinian Arabs," and Rabbi Harold Schulweiss "We, therefore, support the told the CCAR that Ameri- concept of territorial com- can Jews have become ob- promise, including a tern- sessed with achievement porary cessation of further and the home has become a settlement activities on the "loveless place" where chil- West Bank, with the goal of dren are loved conditionally encouraging Jordanian and based on their success. Palestinian participation in In a discussion of "What is the peace process." Happening to the Jewish Affirming "the historic Family?" Rabbi Edwin centrality of the state of Is- Freidman of Washington, rael for the Jewish people," D.C. said we must stop look- the CCAR declared, "Re- ing for methods, or "path= conciliation between Jews ology," and begin using and Arabs is a goal toward techniques of healing. He said parents must stop which we strive and which we believe can be achieved using psychotherapy as "a and one which requires flex- salvation system." "Chil- ibility and willingness to dren who are doing best in sacrifice on all sides. In dis- this world," he said, "are cussions leading toward those whose parents made structures of peace, concern them the least important for secure borders and polit- part of their own salvation." Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut ical and military stability need to be seen as compati- was inducted as president of ble with human rights and the CCAR. justice for all." HAPPY The resolution also endorsed "the propriety of PASSOVER reasoned expression of FROM verse opinions" about Israel by American rabbis; de- clared that "the exercise of power by the Jewish state should reflect the moral in- tegrity of Jewish concerns"; supported "plusalism" in Is- rael; encouraged aliya; commended "positive pro- grams which offer practical support and ever-growing syrength" to Israel, and re- newed "our commitment 'to the, vitality, integrity and well-being of the state of Is- rael." In other matters before the convention, outgoing CCAR President Herman Schaalman of Chicago \ 2 Locations led a discussion of "Re- 11 Mile & Evergreee latkep Landing versing the Nuclear Arms I , Met On Sat. 10430, Thurs. til 8 Race" and the .CCAR 424-9240 adopted a resolution cal- 79229 Nordwitstere (Wide Fancy This) Mon. tkre Sat, 10-5 352-0906 ling for a nuclear _ __ ________ weapons freeze. The rabbis asked for a Ir " CLOSING "1 a ll "no-first-use" declaration I TYPEWRITER I by the U.S. and continued I DEPARTMENT I Volume Tells of Daughter's Struggle With Ill Parents Greenfield South of Nine Mile, Southfield Diane Rubin describes the changes she underwent as she took on the task of caring for ill, aging parents in "Caring: A Daughter's Story" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston). _ c2V a t 1 -s zry " 0,90as S1 0 CTE Z cqff Hermelin, Colburn, Colburn Blumberg, Steinberg The author's story begins on Sept. 18, 1978, the day her mother started chemotherapy treatments for cancer. 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