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B'nai B'rith Is Caught
In A Battle Of The Sexes
New York (JTA) — A deci-
sion by B'nai B'rith Interna-
tional to end its 92-year-old
relationship with B'nai
B'rith Women has raised a
storm of protest from the
120,000- member women's
organization.
In a 64-14 vote, B'nai
B'rith International's board
of governors voted to ap-
prove a resolution that
would sever its constitu-
tional ties with the national
women's organization and
establish itself as a united
men's and women's
organization.
"We have a responsibility
to ourselves and to our
future," Seymour Reich, in-
ternational president of
B'nai B'rith, said in a state-
ment issued before the vote.
"If B'nai B'rith Women
has declared itself to be
separate, independent and
autonomous, and if that is
truly the desire of their
leadership and membership,
so be it. We wish them well,"
he said.
Reich was referring to a
resolution adopted in Oc-
tober 1988 by BBW, in
which the organization
declared its separately in-
corporated legal status and
its autonomy within the
B'nai B'rith organization.
But according to BBW
President Hyla Lipsky,
B'nai B'rith International
intentionally has chosen to
misinterpret the women's
1988 resolution for its own
purposes.
"What is really going on
here is transparent," she
said in a statement. "B'nai
B'rith International's deci-
sion-makers now seek total
control over their empire."
Last year's resolution, in
her words, was a reaction to
a unilateral action to admit
women taken at the
September 1988 BBI bien-
nial convention. BBW felt
the need to reassert its
autonomy.
The BBW resolution, said
Lipsky, was completely in
keeping with the ordinance
of the organization. "B'nai
B'rith Women has been
legally incorporated as a
separate organization since
1962," she said. "It has all
the rights to self-governance
that such incorporation
implies."
But Reich said, in a tele-
phone interview, that such
incorporation "has no
significance."
"Each of our constituent
organizations — B'nai B'rith
Seymour Reich: "Responsibility to
ourselves."
Women, BBYO and Hillel —
has a separate corporate
status. They, nevertheless,
all are subject to the regula-
tions of the B'nai B'rith con-
stitution," he said.
B'nai B'rith's constitution
states that BBW is chartered
under the authority of BBI.
"Its laws, rules, regulations
and policies" are "subject to
B'nai B'rith Women
maintains that the
resolution is the
equivalent of a
hostile takeover.
the approval of B'nai B'rith
International or its board of
governors."
The resolution adopted
Dec. 3 gives the women's
organization 14 days to res-
cind its 1988 resolution, fail-
ing which all affiliation bet-
ween the two groups will be
abandoned.
BBW maintains that the
resolution is the equivalent
of a hostile takeover, an
effort to offset the interna-
tional organization's flagg-
in g membership and
revenue.
BBI's membership has
fallen from a high of 200,000
in 1969 to 136,000 in 1987,
according to the spring 1989
issue of Lilithmagazine.
According to Reich,
however, the decision to
sever ties with the women is
the result of a grass-roots
movement. "Its origins stem
from a desire to meet the
challenge of changing social
mores, by offering women
equal status within B'nai
B'rith. Women have told us
that they want membership
privileges," he said in the
interview.