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MAY 30, 1986

SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

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Pulling The Stinger
From Saudi Missiles

Three Michigan
representatives explain
pro vote as the arms
package faces the
Senate again.

BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor

The removal of shoulder-fired
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles from
President Reagan's $354 million
arms package for Saudi Arabia will
not change the opposition positions
of U.S. Senators Carl Levin and
Donald Riegle, their offices said this
week. Nor will it change the sup-
porting votes of the three Michigan
congressmen who backed the sale in
the House this month.

Democrats David Bonior (Mt.
Clemens), John Conyers (Detroit)
and Johti Dingell (Dearborn) were
among the 62 representatives who
favored the sale of U.S. missiles to
Saudi Arabia before the Saudis
agreed to remove the Stingers from
their request. In the May 7 vote, 356
representatives voted against the
sale. In the Senate, opponents mus-
tered a:73-22 victory.
The two overwhelming congres-
sional votes marked the first defeat
of a presidential request for a
weapons sale. Last week, President
Reagan vetoed the resolution of re-
jection and Administration officials
have been working to gather the
minority of 36 votes needed in the
Senate to protect the President's

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Rabbis Re-Affirm
Matrilineal Descent

The Conservative rabbis
reaffirmed linking Jewish
lineage to the mother.

BY HEIDI PRESS
Local News Editor

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Detroit rabbis joined 234 of their
colleagues last week in upholding
the principle of matrilineal descent
and the call for a national Beth Din
(rabbinical court).
Rabbi Irwin Groner of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek applauded these
measures at the Rabbinical Assem-
bly's annual convention at the Con-
cord Hotel in New York. The '
1,200-member rabbinical body voted
235-92 to reaffirm the principle that
one's Jewishness• is traced through
the mother.
Groner, who was elected the
RA's treasurer, viewed the idea of
national Beth Din as "a welcome de-
velopment."
"(It is) a goal worthy of the
commitment and dedication and best
efforts of leaders of the Reform, Con-
servative and Orthodox movements,"
he said.
On the question of matrilineal

descent, the delegates voted to make
the principle a legal standard of the
movement. A rabbi who violates the
principle. — by officiating at a bar
mitzvah or wedding of one whose
mother is not Jewish — would be
subject to sanction.
Rabbi Groner said a Rabbinical
Assembly review con- mittee — a
Vaad HaKavod — would apply the
sanction, but the rabbi said the RA
is not aimed at being an investiga-

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