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REMINDER

Attention friends and alumni
of Misifta Torah Vodaath

Please join the greater Detroit Jewish community in
welcoming the esteemed Rosh Yeshivah HORAV
AVROHOM PAM SHLITA, who will speak at a parlor
meeting benefiting Torah Vodaath on Monday,
December 7th.

Marvin Berlin, Chairman

Date: Monday, December 7th
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: Home of Arnold Carmen
15927 Hilton
Southfield, Michigan

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Conservative Jews Move
To Resolve Differences

Kiamesha Lake, N.Y. (JTA)
— The United Synagogue of
America, the two-million-
member association of Con-
servative congregations, pass-
ed two resolutions here
recently designed to heal a
rift with Conservative rabbis,
and another that may have
exacerbated a conflict with
Conservative cantors.
Some 1,300 Conservative
rabbis and delegates gathered
at the Concord Hotel here for
the association's biennial con-
vention, which included
study, workshops and the
celebration of United Syna-
gogue's 75th anniversary.
The two rabbinic-related
resolutions were adopted at
the urging of Franklin
Kreutzer of Miami, who was
elected to a second two-year
term as United Synagogue
president.
One called for binding ar-
bitration to resolve all
disputes between rabbis,
educators and cantors and
their employers. The other
urged a thoughtful review of
the roles of lay and rabbinic
representatives on the
various joint commissions
and committees that relate to
Conservative movement
affairs.
Under provisions of both
resolutions, a task force of
equal numbers of rabbis, lay
persons and seminarians will
work out the details for giv-
ing the laity a greater voice
and for resolving lay-rabbinic
disputes.
A report by the task force,
to be chaired by Jewish
Theological Seminary chan-
cellor Ismar Schorsch, will be
delivered to each organiza-
tion by June 30, 1988.
Kreutzer said Schorsch, a rab-
bi, is sensitive to the concerns
of both sides.
The resolutions came about
in part because of the rift that
developed between the Rab-
binical Assembly, the associa-
tion of Conservative rabbis,
and United Synagogue. The
assembly supported the
lawsuit of a member against
the United Synagogue over
his recent dismissal from a
job with the latter.
(However, a United Syna-
gogue spokesman said that
issue will be handled sepa-
rately from other issues of
arbitration.)
United Synagogue also
passed a resolution that
would allow it to set up its
own cantorial placement
organization. This came
about because the Cantors'
Assembly, an independent

body within the Conservative
movement, has refused to
stop placing its cantors with
congregations that are not af-
filiated with United Syna-
gogue.
Currently,
cantorial
placements are handled by a
joint committee of United
Synagogue and the Cantors'
Assembly.
Delegates overwhelmingly
approved the measure, which
was seen as necessary to keep
congregations from disassoci-
ating with United Synagogue
because they could receive its
services without paying dues.
With a shortage of available
cantors, Kreutzer said af-
filiated congregations should
be considered first. However,
Cantor Saul Rosenbaum, vice
president of the Cantors'
Assembly, said the associa-
tion didn't have the right to
stop a cantor from taking a
job that pays more money
with a nonaffiliated
congregation.
Rosenbaum said the key
issue is the membership of
the joint placement commis-
sion, which is now dominated
by the Cantors' Assembly. He
said United Synagogue wants
increased representation on it
— an issue which Rosenbaum
said the assembly is prepared
to discuss.

ADL Amends
Quota Policy

New York — The Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith has amended its long-
standing policy opposing
quotas and preferential treat-
ment by recognizing that
such measures may be ap-
propriate under limited
conditions.
The ADL approved excep-
tions to its policy in two
resolutions: one dealing with
court-ordered preferential
relief, including guotas, and
one dealing with the con-
sideration of race, gender or
ethnicity as a factor in
private sector employment.
The actions were taken at the
agency's recent national ex-
ecutive committee meeting in
Chicago.

Jewish Life

New York — A national
search for Jewish Americana
— from greeting cards to fine
art, from kitchenware to
ketubot (wedding contracts) —
is being conducted by the
Hebrew Union College Skir-
ball Musem's recently launch-
ed Project Americana.

