Morris Abram's Policy Statement on Affirmative Action and Race Quotas THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 Democracy and Its Aches When Hatred is Rooted in Lies of Jewish Events Editorials, Page 4 Copyright © The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXXIII, No. 22 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $18 Per Year: This Issue 40c July 29, 1983 U.S. Won't Pressure Israelis on Lebanon Troop Pull-Back Ex-Detroit Woman, Named Solo Rabbi by NY Congregation NEW YORK (JTA) — A Reform-ordained woman rabbi, whose application to become the first Conservative woman rabbi was rejected in April at a convention of Con- servative rabbis, has been appointed rabbi of a Conserva- tive synagogue in Clifton Park, N.Y. A source at the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the associa- tion of Conservative rabbis, said Rabbi Beverly Magidson, a native of Detroit, was named solo rabbi of Beth Shalom of Clifton Park, effective Monday, her first pulpit. She is leav- ing her current post as associate director of the Hillel Foun- ration at Washington University in St. Louis and interim chaplain at Jewish Hospital to take the Clifton pulpit. The term "solo rabbi" is used to refer to a congregation too mallto need or to be able to afford more than one rabbi. The Clifton Park congregation is made up of slightly more than 100 families, the RA source said. Rabbi Magidson's application to become a member of the RA was rejected by narrow margins in two roll-call votes at the 83rd annual RA convention in Houston on April 12. She was ordained in 1979 by the New York school of Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion. She is also a graduate of Brandeis University. Beth Shalom is an affiliate of the United Synagogue of America, the central agency for American Conservative synagogues. According to Dr. Lewis Morrison, president of Beth Shalom, Rabbi Magidson's appointment marks the first time that the Conservative movement has placed a woman rabbi with a congregation that is only a member of the Conservative branch of Judaism. There are women rabbis in congregations affiliated simultaneously with the Con- servative and Reconstructionist movements. Rabbi Magidson is married and has a nine-month-old son. WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Reagan Administration has apparently decided not to press Israel to postpone its planned troop redeployment but instead is urging that it be seen as the first phase of the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Lebanon. This was indicated Tuesday night after Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe Arens met for some five hours at the State Department with Secretary of State George Shultz and Robert McFarlane, President Reagan's new special envoy to the Middle East. "There was no pressure on Israeli deployment," Arens was quoted as saying after the meeting. "The Americans did not ask the Israelis to delay." This position was also made clear by-Reagan when he was asked about the redeployment at his nationally - televised press conference Tuesday night. "I am very hopeful that if this partial withdrawal takes place that it will be recognized and admitted to me by the Israelis as one phase of their agreement to withdraw," the President said. He noted that he would be discussing the issue with Shamir and Arens at the White House on Wednesday. The deployment issue was the center of talks the two Israeli ministers had at the State Department with Shultz and others on Wednesday and-Thursday. Arens also conducted separate meetings with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at the Pentagon. Reagan said Tuesday night that if Israeli redeployment is part of a phased withdrawal "it will certainly give us a better chance for breaking the roadblock that has been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." But Reagan warned that there is a -fear "that if the Israelis move to simply a with- drawal toanother line and then a digging-in and fortifying along that line, that this would be what it looks like Syria is doing, and that is NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee has simply trying to partition Lebanon, reduce urged two Congressional committees to investigate how an Lebanon and grab off some territory for them- Arab-American organization obtained a classified gov- selves." ernment document dealing with U.S. aid to Israel, which it However, Reagan quickly added that then proceded to distribute to the press and to members of since Israel has signed an agreement with Congress. Lebanon for the withdrawal of all Israeli The document was an early draft of a report on U.S. aid forces, "I don't think Israel has that in to Israel, subsequently issued in a shortened form by the mind." When the two Israeli ministers ar- General Accounting Office. Some sections had been deleted rived in Washington, Shamir stressed that "for security reasons," according to a GAO spokesperson. the redeployment "is in the context" of the Howard I. Friedman, AJCommittee's national president, said the deleted sections "contained information May 17 Israeli-Lebanese agreement. and comments on Israel's relations with the Arab world Reagan also stressed that the U.S. would that would be appropriate to diplomatic discussions, but consider the partition of Lebanon "as foreign were not considered suitable for general release, and were occupation of that country and the U.S. will do therefore omitted from the final report." all it can to help prevent this from occurring. We "It seems to us," Friedman declared, "that all Ameri- set out to help Lebanon after all these years of cans should be concerned when a private organization strife, regain sovereignty of its own land, pro- takes it upon itself to obtain and then release a classified tection of its own land, protection of its own government document." , Investigation Asked on GAO Document (Continued on Page 6) • Ground Broken at Tel Aviv University- to Ease the Shortage of Israel Dentists • SS K2 '0 Po rif LAW-g ORATION ..,:ogff 01,61.0 • <, --qufamoo . • TEL AVIV — A groundbreaking ceremony for the new building at Tel Aviv University's School-of Dental Medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine was held recently, providing added impetus for the drive to complete the addition to the school. The expansion of the Tel Aviv University School of Dental Medicine will have a significant impact on Israeli dental medicine, allowing for the doubling of the number of dentists trained by the school who, upon graduation, commit themselves to three years of service in development towns and other areas in urgent need of dental care. The new building is a joint project undertaken by Tel Aviv University and Kupat Holim, the health services of the Labor Federation, and the government of Israel. Major supporters of the drive to complete the new addition are the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity, the American Friends of the Tel Aviv University Dental School and Sigma Epsilon Delta Dental Fraternity. The building, which will be patterned on modern dental schools in the Western world, will contain 100 student operatories, 50 each on two floors, and will include special areas for oral diagnosis, oral medicine, oral radiology and oral surgery. It will also contain a pre-clinical (Phantom-head) laboratory, and modern teaching and technical laboratories. An auditorium capa- ble of seating the entire student body and faculty is also planned. None of these facilities is available today. Shown at the recent groundbreaking ceremonies for the new building of Tel Aviv University's School of Dental Medicine are, Israel currently suffers from a severe shortage of dentists, and the training of additional dentiSts has been from left, TAU Dental School Dean Amos Buchner, Alpha Omega given the highest priority by Israel's Council of Higher Education. Currently there are only 1,500 qualified Dental Fraternity President Dr. Gordon Perlmutter, and Dr. Leo dentists serving four million Israelis, 90 percent of whom suffer from dental diseases. In addition, a large Shipko of Detroit, past president of the fraternity and chairman percentage of Israeli dentists currently practicing do so in major urban centers, and many of these dentists are of its fund-raising drive for the school. (Continued on Page 6)