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Speech By Shindler
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New York (JTA) — A strong-
ly worded sermon last week
by Reform leader Rabbi Alex-
ander Schindler has come
under sharp criticism from
Orthodox organizations.
Schindler, addressing more
than 600 Reform rabbis at the
centennial convention of the
Central Conference of
American Rabbis, said that
the spirit of modern Reform
Judaism must be preserved
and the movement must
stand by its most controver-
sial decisions against
criticism from more tradi-
tional Jews.
"Our forbears did not forge
Reform Judaism to have us
trade it in for a tinsel imita-
tion of Orthodoxy," said
Schindler, who is president of
the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.
Schindler's remarks were
characterized as a "shameful,
ugly, indefensible and false
attack on Orthodoxy" by Rab-
bi Pinchas Stolper, executive
vice president of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congrega-
tions of America.
Both Stolper and Rabbi
Moshe Sherer of the Agudath
Israel movement said that
Schindler's statements in-
dicate he is under mounting
pressure to re-evaluate his
stand on patrilineal descent.
In a radical departure from
traditional Judaism, the Cen-
tral Conferene of American
Rabbis decied in 1983 that
the children of mixed mar-
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Jewish, even through the
father's lineage.
Stolper urged Schindler to
"heed the voices" in the
Reform movement that call
for a re-evaluation of the
"self-destructive policies of ac-
commodation to intermar-
riage and assimilation."
In his sermon, Schindler ex-
horted the rabbis to stop
"romanticizing Orthodoxy."
"Where it alone prevails,"
he said, "stale repression,
fossilized tradition and
ethical corruption often holds
sway. There is the danger in
Israel today, is it not?"
Giving in to pressure from
more traditional streams of
Judaism on issues like
patrilineal descent would
mean, Schindler warned, that
"we will only demean
ourselves and lose our distinc-
tive character."
Schindler said Reform rab-
bis should not be "snared by
the delusion that a retreat on
such issues as patrilineality
will gain us the acceptance of
the more traditionally inclin-
ed in Israel or anywhere else."
"Only total surrender,"
Schindler said, "will have
such an effect in that arena."
Sherer admitted that the
Reform movement would be
not accepted among the Or-
thodox even if it renounced
patrilineal descent, because
of Reform's abandonment of
halachah (traditional Jewish
law).
Other American relief
workers reportedly accused
Israel of trying to discredit
George as well as the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization,
which was praised in
Washington for its prompt
condemnation of the
kidnapping.
Israeli security forces,
which conducted an ex-
hausting and fruitless search
for the relief worker, backed
up their suggestion by noting
that George was acquainted
with one of the kidnappers,
whom he identified as
Mohammad Abu Nasr, a resi-
dent of the Jabalya refugee
camp in Gaza.
After interrogating him for
a third time, authorities drop-
ped the accusation that
George helped stage the ab-
duction, but they still accus-
ed him of cooperating with
his captors.
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Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel
found itself in conflict with an
American relief organization
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kidnapping of Washingtonian
Chris George in the Gaza
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George, 35, head of the West
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