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Friday, May 25, 1984

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Jewish organizations at
Michigan's three largest
public universities have
encountered mixed results
in their efforts to fight Arab
propaganda on campus, ac-
cording to a volume just
published by the
American-Israel Public Af-
fairs Committe (AIPAC).
The AIPAC College
Guide: Exposing the Anti-
Israel Campaign on Cam-
pus, by Jonathan S. Kessler
and Jeff Schwaber, gives
high marks to the Univer-
sity of Michigan for its at-
tempts to counter the grow-
ing anti-Israel movement,
now being seen at colleges
and universities through-
out the United States. How-
ever, the guide was some-
what critical of the lack of
effective action on the part
of Jewish student groups at
both Michigan State Uni-
versity and Wayne State
University.
The AIPAC guide, part of
a series on U.S.-Israel rela-
tions, is divided into two
sections. The first offers an
in-depth examination of the
anti-Israel trend cur-
rently taking hold on the
American college scene as
the number of Arab stu-
dents attending institutions
of higher learning in this
country increases. The sec-
ond section presents a pro-
file of 100 schools and their
efforts to counter such prop-
aganda, including the three
Michigan universities.

"Friends of Israel at the
University of Michigan are
highly committed, well or-
ganized and politically as-
tute," the authors state.
"They have rarely faced a
serious on-campus chal-
lenge, and have thus far
easily maintained the sym-
pathies of most of the stu-
dent community."
While the guide charges
that efforts at both MSU
and WSU have been less
successful, it does acknowl-
edge that these two schools
have larger, more active
Arab student populations
than U-M. The AIPAC Col-
lege Guide takes MSU to
task, claiming that the only
effective counter-balance to
the anti-Israel campaign in
East Lansing has come from
the school's Lebanese Stu-
dent Association.
"Since there has been
relatively little in the way
of propaganda-response ac-
tivity (from Jewish student
groups), the campaign to
discredit Israel at MSU has
gone virtually unchecked
for the past several years."
Meanwhile, Kessler and
Schwaber infer that the
fight against Arab prop-
aganda at WSU is not hin-
dered by a lack of organiza-
tion from Jewish groups on

campus, but rather the lack
of an enthusiastic response
on the part of a majority of
the Jewish students. Sup-
porters of Israel at WSU
"have occasionally or-
ganized in response to
(anti-Israel) activities, but
in general, they have let the
anti-Israel activists hurt
themselves," the guide
states.
For a copy of The AIPAC
College Guide, write the
American-Israel Pubic Af-
fairs Committee, 444 North
Capitol St. N.W., Washing-
ton D.C. 20001. There is a
charge for the book.
In a related development,
the American Jewish Con-
gress has begun a nation-
wide drive to get state legis-
latures to enact laws com-
pelling colleges and univer-
sities to enact laws compel-

ling colleges and univer-
sities to disclose large gifts
from foreign sources. Under
a model bill drafted by, the
I
organization, public
private schools would be e-
quired to make a public dis-
closures on gifts and con-
tracts from foreign sources
which exceed $100,000 in
value per year.
Such legislation, al-
though not aimed specifi-
cally at Arab countries,
might curtail the current
trend of huge donations
from pro-Arab interests,
which often come with
strings attached.
The first such disclosure
law was passed in Illinois
last year, according to the
AJCongress. Eight other
states, including Michigan,
are currently considering
similar measures.

Conservative rabbis reject
Beverly Magidson again

Kiamesha Lake, N.Y.
(JTA) — Conservative
rabbis voted last week at
the 84th annual convention
of the Rabbinical Assembly
(RA) to reject for a second
year in a row the applica-
tion of former Detroiter and
Reform-ordained Rabbi Be-
verly Magidson to become
America's first woman Con-
servative rabbi.
Despite the backing of the
RA membership committee
and that of many Conserva-
tive leaders, Magidson, of
Clifton Park, N.J., received
230 votes in favor to 99
votes against her applica-
tion, 22 votes short of the
required 75 percent of the
convention majority needed
to affirm her application. At
last year's RA convention
she failed in her bid by only
four votes.
The application of an-
other Reform-ordained
woman rabbi, Jan Kaufman
of Washington, D.C. had
been approved by the
appropriate RA committees
for consideration for con-
vention action. But her ap-
plication was tabled: Both
she and Madidson were or-
dained in 1979 by the He-
brew Union College, the Re-
form seminary branch in
New York.
More than 20 women
have been enrolled in the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary rabbinical school (con-
. servative) for the coming
fall term, and, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency was
told, one of the members of
the school's entering class
has earned sufficient JTS
credits so that, barring un-

expected developments, she
will complete the school's
academic requirements and
be graduated next June and
thus achieve ordination as
the first Conservative
woman rabbi.
Accordingly, the JTA was
told, when the RA meets in
convention next spring, the
woman will be a member of
the 1984-1985 rabbinical
school graduating class
whose members will be
routinely voted into RA
membership.
Meanwhile, the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion (HUC-
JIR) has announced the
names of the 17 women who
will be ordained as Reform
rabbis this month and next.
However the total number
of such women ordained to
date is expected to be 92,
rather than 94, because two
Reconstructionist women
candidates will not be or-
dained this summer as had
been scheduled, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency has
been told.
A spokesperson for
Reconstructionist Rabbini-
cal college (RCC) told the
JTA that one of the two can-
didates at that seminary
had extended her final year
of study to October, when
she is expected to be or-
dained. The second RRC
candidate has taken a leave
of absence.

The Reform ordination
ceremonies will be held
Sunday at
Emanu-El in New York and
at the Plum Street Temple
in Cincinnati on June 4.

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