SUNRISE Cat OMELETTES WAFFLES - 10% SENIOR CITIZENS DISCOUNT (Except Specials) says that being Jewish is like be- ing a U.S. citizen. One could be a good citizen or a bad citizen, but citizenship is a legal status, arbitrarily assigned either by birth or naturalization rituals. But for Reform, being a Jew is more a matter of "residence," of "belonging." One Reform rabbi, though he insists on the traditional conver- sion requirements of circumci- sion and immersion, pointed out that personally, "I've always said that a person who called himself a Jew is a Jew." Another member of the con- ference said of the Orthodox view, "They're stuck with Jews for Jesus, who have Jewish mothers, being defined as Jews, whereas Shoshana Miller they cannot accept. That's their prob- lem. My definition ofKlal Yisrael excludes those who are Chris- tians and includes those who are properly converted by Reform rabbis — according to the stan- dards of the Reform rabbi who performed the conversion." "The Orthodox refusal to ac- cept as Jews either our patrilin- eal offspring or our converts," Stern told the conference, "bears the same logic, according to their principles of religious truth, as the ordination of women and patrilineality bears logic in ours. The task at hand is how to walk around such dif- ferences rather than resolve them." He said, to loud applause, that "any consideration of re- scinding the resolution on patri- lineality is entirely beyond the realm of possibility." Stern said that "if the Ortho- dox, or even the Conservative, decide to investigate the gen- ealogy of a prospective bride or groom and that investigation discloses that the person in question is Jewish according to Reform patrilineality but not according to traditional hal- achah, I for one have no quarrel with their requirement of conver- sion." He recommended, however, "another approach espoused by Jewish tradition, which is: not to ask the question:' He warned of the dangers of a proposed national Bet Din which "with all good intentions" might seek to "reconcile what is essentially irreconcilable and thereby only make the battle worse." Expressing a view held by many of the rabbis at the con- ference, Stern said the Orthodox will find ways out of the prob- lems. The thrust for unity in some segments of the Orthodox community, he said, will not allow Reform to be written off. In the question period follow- ing his address, Rabbi Ellenson said he would be prepared to argue that the halachic re- quirements of circumcision and immersion in a mikveh be re- quired of Reform converts "if the RCA were to officially repudiate the positions of Rabbis Moshe Feinstein and J. David Bleich." Feinstein and Bleich state that "halachah recognizes the validity of a conversion only if performed in' the presence of a qualified Bet Din" composed of three men who accept the divini- ty and binding authority of the Written and Oral Torah in its entirety. In any potential agreement with the Orthodox, autonomy will be an issue. Unlike the Con- servative Rabbinic Assembly, which can expel members for performing intermarriages or recognizing patrilineal descent or allowing conversions without circumcision and immersion, the CCAR has no such authority over its members. 15600 W. 10 MILE RD. AT GREENFIELD (New Orleans Mall) 28505 NORTHWESTERN AT BECK RD. 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