A.., • ar44:7 .6- 41C .4174.4-7,WATTi, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Zionist Organization of America Metropolitan Detroit District NEWS \Th New York (JTA) - Opponents to the ordination of women as rabbis - both within and outside the Conservative movement - have come forward to protest the announcement last month by the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) that it had cleared the way for the ac- ceptance of its first female member, Amy Eilberg, upon her graduation from the Jewish Theological Seminary in May. The Union for Traditional Con- servative Judaism, a group of rabbis and laity who oppose women's ordination in the Con- servative movement, said that the passage of an amendment to the RA constitution - which guaran- tees the acceptance of women by mandating the automatic admis- sion of each entire JTS graduat- ing class - "should not be seen as a wholehearted endorsement" of women as rabbis. The group's co-chairman, Rabbi David Novak, claimed that 30 percent of the RA membership voted against the amendment. (In the mail ballot, 267 members out of 903 voted against the amend- ment and 247 did not cast ballots. Had this percentage of numbers voted according to the original procedure, which required a 75 percent vote for the acceptance of individual members rather than a two-thirds majority, "the admis- sion of women into the RA would have been precluded," Novak said. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations condemned the RA decision as representing a "radi- cal and definitive break with Jewish tradition, shattering all claims and pretenses that the Conservative movement is a branch of Halachic Judaism." Charging that the decision is part of the movement's "continu- ing breach with traditional Judaism," Union President Sid- ney Kewestel called it "religion by popular demand, a pandering to pressure groups" that "further ob- literates the distinction between the Conservative and Reform movements" in the U.S. The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, whose president is rabbi Moshe Feins- tein, expressed the view that no woman, "even an Orthodox one," can serve as a rabbi according to Jewish law, he said in which Re- form and Conservative move- ments "have done everything to break down." Detroit Chapter ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY topic ADVANCED PRODUCTION METHODS 1. ZOA PRESIDENTIAL MISSION TO ISRAEL Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) JULY 13-27, 1985 guest speaker .. . 2. ZOA YOUNG LEADERSHIP MISSION DR. ABRAHAM BER JULY 3-17, 1985 3. 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