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Each step was taken "amid bitter controver- sy," he noted, adding: "The ordination question was simply the final step in the equalization of religious op- portunity for men and women in Jewish life." But he praised the new splinter group, the Union of Traditional Conservative Jews, as "playing a construc- tive role in forcing us to con- front the fact that the level of religious observance among most Conservative Jews is dismally low." He said one of his highest priorities will be to raise the level of obser-. vance among the Conserva- tive laity and he will follow the Union's lead. "Their agenda is a correct one," he believes, and • he sees the Union staying within the Conservative movement. One practical means of in- creasing the observance level, he says, is to make available Rabbi Isaac Klein's Guide to Jewish Practice, which Dr. Schorsch called a Jewish code for the 20th century and "the most important book pub- lished by the Conservative movement." He would like to see the book, which discusses what and why is expected of a Conservative Jew, given to every Bar Mitzvah boy and studied as a text in adult education classes. Another major priority will be to help create a climate of moderation in the Jewish world among thevarious reli- gious ideologies. Dr. Schorsch • said that "any effort to bring the various branches to- gether is laudatory," and he noted that this calls for each group to curb its individual freedoms for the sake of the community as a whole. A model, he said, can be found in the European concept of a kehilla, or central communal body, that can impose a degree of moderation on radicals. Dr. Schorsch is convinced that there will be a re- surgence of centrist Ortho- doxy to counter the powerful right-wing Orthodoxy so pre- valent today because the Orthodox community is be- coming increasingly "disillu- sioned with the sectarianism of the extreme right who de- fine standards for their im- mediate followers rathe•than for the whole community." Asserting that Conserva- tive Jews are not post- Halachic Jews but are indeed Halachic Jews, Dr. Schorsch explained that "we may modify that Halacha with more flexibility than some people might like, but we're grappling with that Halacha. • took us 10 years to make that ordination . decision. That's a sign that the Halacha plays a big role in our lives. We could have decision in six . • . . • months and we didn't." As to how to decide which Halachic codes need modify- ing and which do not, Dr. Schorsch has a practical answer: "You grapple with Halacha where communal "Every generation is entitled to write its own midrash (interpretation." pressure exists," he says, ad- vocating a kind of if-it-ain't- broke-don't-fix-it viewpoint. Dr. Schorsch hopes to see a continued growth of the Conservative movement in Israel, asserting that "we are the only Diaspora form of Judaism that has anything to say to Israel." He feels Reform Judaism is "too alien, too far out" to appeal to Israeli Jews. • Finally, Dr. Schorsch sug- gests that "every generation is entitled to write its own midrash (interpretation). What makes us Jews," he says, "is that we write that midrash on the same text. It's not that we parrot the midrash of earlier genera- tions." The tragedy of the right-wing Orthodox today, he believes, is that "every- thing is p'shot (text, or law) and there's no midrash. That's intellectual suicide. "Every generation has to be permitted the freedom of p'shot and midrash, continui- ty and discontinuity. If you don't have midrash, then you can't exercise any inven- tiveness. You can't address the problems of your own age. There's no freedom. Mid- rash is an instrument of liberation without breaking continuity. That's the great- ness of Judaism. And our cri- tical scholarship is the mid- rash of the modern Jew." 0 Israeli Planes •Hit Targets In Lebanon • Tel Aviv (JTA)— Israel Air Force planes bombed terrorist targets in the Sidon area of south Lebanon list Monday and returned safely to their bases, a military spokesman announced. He said the targets were train- ing bases and. headquarters buildings of El Fatah, the ter- rorist arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization and of George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group that broke away from the PLO years ago. Beirut radio reported five sor- ties by the Israeli bombers on targets in the Miamia and Ein Hilwe refugee camps near S don. r • i