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GO TO THE SUMMER CAMP SPECIALIST 9 alp' aNd Voaltir ?Veen In The kt,71.F WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA 6690 Orchard lake Road West Bloomfield, Michigan 851-6232 OFFICIAL CAMP OUTFITTERS FOR CAMPS WALDEN—SEAGULL--TANUGA—WAHANOWIN—TAMAKAWA TAMARACK—MAPLEIHURST We'll outfit you from head to toe. If it's on your list WE HAVE IT!! MAKE YOUR CHILD FEEL PART OF HIS CAMP & PART OF THE GROUP WE HAVE OFFICIAL CAMP T-SHIRTS, SWEATSHIRTS & SHORTS Honorees at the Jewish Theological Seminary dinner are, from left: Philip Langwald, William Feldman and Joseph Jackier. Women's ordination as rabbis in the Conservative movement came about as an "evolutionary change" and not a "revolution- ary action," according to Rabbi Simon Greenberg, vice chancel- lor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Speaking last week in an interview with The Jewish News, prior to a scheduled ap- pearance at the annual semi- nary dinner at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Rabbi Greenberg said that women's involvement at the seminary came - about long before the decision to allow them to be ordained as Conser- vative rabbis. Rabbi Greenberg, who became ill prior to the dinner and was replaced as the guest speaker by Rabbi Yaakov Rosenberg of the seminary, said that Henrietta Szold had studied at the semi- nary and • early in this century women were members of the fa- culty. He said the role of women at the JTS has been increasing since the days of its second president Rabbi Solomon Schechter. Rabbi Greenberg added that no member of the faculty ever censured women for wearing talit and tefilin, and when they said Kaddish, they received the same respect as men who did the same. "Women, at least for the last ten years, would join the service every morning and put on talit and tefilin. It was something they themselves wanted. "It wasn't a revolutionary thing for us to have women who are observant, and who wore talit and tefilin and who studied Talmud and who became very adept in it and teach in our school. So it wasn't a great revo- lutionary thing. It was an evolu- tionary rather than a revolu- tionary action." Rabbi Greenberg added that the world's view of women, which is reflected in the Halachah, is based on four prin- ciples: "the general proposition that women are intellectually inferior; the general proposition that the place of the woman was in the home; the general pro- position that the woman is sub- servient to her husband; and the general proposition that she is a seductive element and therefore man should be protected from her seduction." He added that "these four principles today are not princi- ples that I think we are ready to enforce. Certainly the position of the woman today in the western world is altogether different." On the topic of patrilineal de- scent, Rabbi Greenberg was adamantly opposed, saying, in effect, that it promoted inter- faith marriage. The president of the Founda- tion for Conservative Judaism in Israel, Rabbi Greenberg said that the movement is making great strides in the Jewish state. He said in 1972, there were only five Conservative congregations in Israel. Today, there are about 40. The move- ment, with funds from the sem- inary and the Rabbinical As- sembly, is helping to build hos- pitals and universities, as well as looking after the spiritual life of the people. The fund-raising dinner also was the occasion to pay tribute to benefactors and others who have worked on behalf of the seminary. A special tribute was made to Sharon Hart "for her devotion to the seminary and the Conservative movement." Joseph H. Jackier and Lawrence S. Jackier of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, William Feldman of Cong. B'nai Moshe and Philip Langwald of Adat Shalom Synagogue were saluted as the evening's guests of honor. The young Jackier was unable to ac- cept his award due to illness. The vice chancellor for de- velopment, Rabbi Rosenberg called on the assembly to con- tinue its support of the semi- nary. He alluded to increasing enrollment. "We are so suc- cessful we can't turn people away." He called the approaching centenary of the institution "a celebration and occasion for re- newal,"