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Friday, July 4, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jerusalem (JTA) — The In-
terior Ministry's order to stamp
the identity cards of Jewish con-
verts in Israel with the word
"converted" next to the designa-
tion "Jewish" was issued after
consultation with Attorney •
General Joseph Harish, the
Jerusalem Post and Haaretz
reported last week.
According to the reports, the
Attorney General saw this as
the only possible course for the
Interior Ministry which was
ordered by the Supreme Court to
show cause why it refused to
register as Jewish a recent
American immigrant, Shoshana
Miller, who was converted to
Judaism by a Reform rabbi in
the U.S. The Attorney General is
obliged to defend government
agencies in litigation.
The Ministry's action has
been fiercely denounced not only
by leaders of Reform and Con-
servative Judaism in Israel and
the U.S. but by a growing
number of Orthodox rabbis.
Former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi
Shlomo Goren declared flatly
that the ID card stamp was a
violation of halacha because it
shamed converts. "Kfar Habad",
the periodical of Habad Hasidim
in Israel, called the practice a
"disgrace."
The Interior Ministry, headed
by Rabbi Yithak Peretz of the
ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, had
intended to argue in court that
the only valid converts were
those whose conversion passed
muster by a Rabbinical Court.
But that would have meant cir-
cumventing the Law of Return
which identifies a Jew as anyone
born of a Jewish mother or
converted.
Harish, like his predecessor,
former Attorney General Yithak
Zamir, opposed the idea. It was
suggested instead that the ID
cards of converts would desig-
nate Jewish nationality with the
word "converted" in paren-
theses.
But the practice, disclosed at
a Supreme Court hearing on the
Miller case, drew an avalanche of
protests. The Interior Ministry
was accused of trying by subter-
fuge to implement the "Who is
a Jew" amendment to the Law
of Return which has been
repeatedly voted down by the
Knesset.
In another development in
New York, leaders of Reform and
Conservative Judaism spoke out
strongly to denounce the
practice.
Rabbi Alexander Schindler,
president of the Union of
American Congregations, the
congregational organization of
Reform Jews, charged that
"Now the Orthodox estab-
lishment in Israel wants to
stamp the equivalent of the
yellow star on the identity cards
of immigrants to Israel who
have been converted to Juda-
ism."
A statement adopted by the
executive council of the Rab-
binical Assembly, the associa-
tion of Conservative rabbis,
urged Prime Minister Shimon
Peres and his Cabinet "to im-
mediately rescind this uncons-
cionable ruling."
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Identity Card Issue
Stirs Controversy
Hillel Praises Israel
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Jerusalem — Shlomo Hillel,
Speaker of Israel's Knesset,
opened a recent parliamentary
session in Jerusalem by lauding
UNICEF's worldwide role and
calling attention to the links be-
tween Israel and UNICEF, now
celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Prior to the establishment of
the Israel National Committee for
UNICEF in 1969, Israel had been
a recipient of UNICEF aid, and
links with UNICEF date practi-
cally from the very birth of Israel
in 1948. In the early 1950s, Israel,
coping with mass immigration,
found itself in need of assistance
for vaccines and equipment for
immunization against tuber-
culosis and polio. When UNICEF
assistance was no longer needed,
it was decided that UNICEF
would contribute to the develop-
ment of educational and demon-
stration programs in Israel that
could be applicable to other coun-
tries.
Hillel also described UNICEF-
related projects currently under
way within Israel, Judea,
Samaria and Gaza. The projects
are in cooperation with the Minis-
try of Labor and Social Affairs in
areas of health care and preven-
tion, public education, outreach
programs, and the establishment
of child development centers.
WJC Seeks
Camp Survivors
New York — The U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice has requested the
assistance of the World Jewish
Congress in locating witnesses to
Nazi crimes committed in 1944 at
the Radom concentration camp in
Poland and at the Vaihinger sub-
camp of the Natzweiler concen-
tration camp in Germany.
Survivors, or those who might
be of assistance in locating sur-
vivors from these camps, may
communicate in any language
they choose and are asked to con-
tact Bessy Pupko, World Jewish
Congress, One Park Avenue, New
York, N.Y. 10016, (212) 679-0600.