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September 18, 1992 - Image 19

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1992-09-18

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Ethiopian Ohm
demonstrate

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. Jerusalem (JTA) — Police
last week forcefully dispers-
ea hundreds of Ethiopian
immigrants demonstrating
•in front of the Prime Min-
jeer's Office for the right of
their religious leaders,
,4,alled kessim, to be granted
rabbinical powers.
4:he demonstration was
the culmination of a nearly
vo-week sit-in strike by the
kessim at the Rose Garden,
across the street from the
Prime Minister's Office.
The demonstrators had
blocked the road before the
office.
‘, Some 28 demonstrators
were detained, then released
/following a brief interroga-
tion. Nine demonstrators
and three police officers
were wounded in the clash
and hospitalized.
--, Despite the clash, the E-
thiopian olim's demands
::'ere met, as Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin will see them
,o discuss the problem.
A meeting held between
representatives of the
kessim and Israel's two chief
rabbis ended without
agremmdnt over the
\ kessim's authority to per-
fmn marriages. The Ethio-
pian leaders left Hechal
---Shlomo, the Central Rab-
binate, slamming the door.
`—'the chief rabbinical coun-
---.cil has consistently resisted
,--- giving the Ethiopian re-
:12igious leaders the power to
perform marriages or issue
rabbinical orders.
According to Ashkenazic
Chief Rabbi Avraham
Shapira, the Ethiopian re-
1 ' ligious leaders are not suffi-
,ciently knowledgeable to
perform such duties. At
most, he said, they should be
permitted to act as religious
:„,- uides.
The kessim rejected an
l'--' offer to settle for creation of
a committee to review their
status.
At week's end, another
compromise proposal was in
the offing, granting the
1 kessim the power to register
marriages and divorces as
Jerks, rather than religious
- leaders. However, the chief
rabbinical council objected
IJ I_7
to that suggestion, on the
, ,,-ounds that the kessim
cannot write in Hebrew.
,__,---, According to sources at the
I
I Chief Rabbinate, leaflets
':vere distributed this week
at the immigrant absorption
'center in Beersheba warning
that any Ethiopian who
would cooperate with the
Rabbinate would be excom-
municated by the commun-
ity.

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