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Call The Jewish News 354-6060 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.