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In an attempt to find a way out of the acrimonious confron- tation between the Orthodox and the non-Orthodox move- ments, the Israeli cabinet established a seven-man ministerial committee, headed by Prime Minister Shamir, to study the problem posed by non-Orthodox converts. One solution that the com- mittee will no doubt investigate is a proposal by Religious Af- fairs Minister Zevulun Ham- mer to establish joint rab- binical courts abroad which would be constituted by Or- thodox, Reform and Conser- vative rabbis. Hammer, who heads the modern Orthodox National Religious Party, envisages "halachically-oriented" courts whose members would be "widely accepted" by all streams of Judaism. Such courts would insure that conversions performed abroad fulfill the requirements of Halacha and would endorse the conversions of those wishing to emigrate to Israel. The proposal, however, has received only the most luke- warm response from the Or- thodox establishment, and Hammer himself is doubtful that any compromise can be reached with the Reform move- ment as long as it rejects Halacha and clings to its con- cept of "patrilineal descent" (by which the children of a Jewish father are considered Jewish, even if the mother is not). If Hammer's proposals are adopted, it would likely lead to a rupture between his National Religious Party and the two ultra-religious parties, Shas , and its Ashkenazi counterpart, Agudat Yisrael. Such a development worries many modern Orthodox Is- raelis who are already con- cerned about the burgeoning strength of the ultra-Orthodox camp, which has seized the spiritual high ground and which is now draining support away from the moderate Na- tional Religious Party. The cold, hard fact of life in Israel today is that the Battle for Souls is not being fought between Orthodox and non- Orthodox religious groups, but rather between the modern Or- thodox and the ultra-Orthodox. The Conservative and Reform movements are barely footnotes in the skirmish. They have failed to establish themselves in the hearts and minds of Israelis, and there is little appreciation or sympathy for the battle they are waging. The ongoing struggle for recognition by the non- Halachic movements does not really touch the vast mass of ordinary Israelis, who perceive the Reform and Conservative organizations as American im- ports which are essentially ir- relevant to their own lives. I NEWS I IIMIN=1== Canada Continued from Page 1 Canadian Jewish Congress past president Milton Harris said the Rodal report offers fur- ther evidence that Nazi war criminals were admitted into Canada and was not an exag- geration of the Jewish lobby. The Canadian government released The Deschenes Com- mission report in March, based on research led by former Quebec Superior Court Justice Jules Deschenes. Legislation to permit the prosecution of war criminals is still pending in Canada. But despite the Deschenes Commission's recommendation that the Rodal report be published uncensored, the government allowed the publication only of a heavily censored version. In the report, Rodal charged that in the early 1950's, U.S. in- telligence operatives supplied misleading information to Canadian authorities and aided East Europeans with false identities to immigrate to Canada. Similarly, a U.S. Justice Department report in 1983 con- cluded that U.S. intelligence of- ficers helped known Nazi war criminals secure new identities and immigrate safely to South America and other countries. A newspaper article on the censored section of the report included details about two former Canadian Prime Mini- sters' roles in protecting Nazi war criminals in Canada. Former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent reportedly agreed to admit a Czechoslovakian Nazi collaborator, Karol Sidor, to settle in Canada in 1949 upon a direct request from Pope Pius XII. Sidor, who com- manded the Slovakian storm- trooper unit, the Hlinka Guard, served as the Nazi-occupied Slovakia representative to the Vatican. Rodal also said St. Laurent personally contacted Nazi col- laborators from Vichy France who settled in Quebec after French courts convicted them in absentia of war crimes.