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July 02, 1993 - Image 11

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1993-07-02

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COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

Guess Which President Supported
The Society For Evangelizing Jews?

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RCA Approves Prenuptual Contract
For All Marriage Ceremonies

N

ew York (JTA) —
After a decade of
debate and negotia-
tion, a leading group of
Orthodox rabbis has ap-
proved steps designed to
resolve the problem of peo-
ple trapped in marriages
because their spouses
refuse, to grant them a
divorce.
Because under Jewish
law the man must issue
the religious divorce, the
trapped partner is nearly
always a woman.
The Rabbinical Council
of America, an organiza-
tion of 1,000 Orthodox rab-
bis, unanimously approved
a resolution requiring the
use of prenuptial agree-
ments in all marriage cer-
emonies. The resolution
also called for synagogues
to ostracize recalcitrant
spouses.
Prenuptial agreements
between Torah-observant

spouses has become useful
as a motivating tool if the
couple becomes estranged
and the husband refuses
to give his wife a Jewish
divorce.
The steps taken by the
RCA at its annual conven-
tion late last month come
after several years of fitful
stops and starts, when
prenuptial agreements
deemed acceptable were
distributed to RCA mem-
bers then quickly recalled
after resistance was
mounted from within the
organization.
The RCA has so far
approved one version of
the agreement, developed
by Rabbi Mordechai
Willig. The RCA's religious
court will approve agree-
ments as they are submit-
ted. Those accepted will be
distributed to the organi-
zation's member rabbis.

Beth El:
Phone Home

re you ready to pull
o
out
your hair be-
A ause your angel,
Leah, who just turned 16,
spends half her life on the
phone?
Well, one temple in the
area is thanking Leah and
everyone else like her.
That's because Leah's long
conversations about "Be-
verly Hills 90210" and the
latest zit cover-up and
David — "Is he the coolest
or what?" — will benefit
the congregation.
Temple Beth El recently
signed on with GIFTNET,

Stamp Honors Slain Professor

T

he Israel Post Office
has issued a new
stamp honoring the
memory of Professor
Aharon Katzir-Katchal-
sky, the eminent chemist
killed in a terrorist attack
at Ben-Gurion Airport in
/- May 1972.
Professor Katzir-Katch-
, /
alsky, who headed the
\__-
Weizmann Institute De-
/-
partment of Polymer Re-
search, began his scientific
career with the study of
\
7
, giant charged molecules
called polyelectrolytes,
which help explain the
behavior of proteins,
nucleic acids and starches
from which all living cells
are made.
In the course of his

work, he invented a "me-
chanchemical" motor built
around the natural con-
nective tissue of polymer
collagen and later became
interested in the passage
of materials in and out of
cells, pioneering in the
application of the laws of
irreversible thermodynam-
ics.
Twenty-three persons
were murdered in the
attack in which Professor
Katzir-Katchalsky was
killed. The three terrorists
were Japanese, working
on behalf of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of
Palestine.
The United Nations
Security Council did not
condemn the act.

INC., a full-service tele-
phone carrier through
which the temple earns
money based on each par-
ticipant's phone bill.
The temple is part of
GIFTNET's fee sharing
plan. Each month, Beth El
receives a check equivalent
to 10 percent of a partici-
pant's total bill — includ-
ing domestic, international
and calling card calls.
All telephone records
remain confidential, and
customers can receive up
to a 30 percent discount on
their own bills.

y fellow Ameri-
cans, it's time for
the presidential
birthday update.
Turning veeerrrrry old
this month are Calvin
Coolidge, born July 4, and
John Quincy Adams, born
July 11.

Coolidge — never known
as Mr. Excitement — had
little to do with Jews. But
on the few occasions that
he did, his sentiments
were friendly.
In 1923, three weeks
after taking office, Cool-
idge sent a letter of greet-
ing to the Jewish Welfare
Board. In 1925, he was the
principal speaker at the
dedication of the Jewish
Community Center • of
Washington, D.C.
John Quincy Adams, son
of President John Adams,
was known for his arro-
gant manner and sour
demeanor. In the years
before his election in 1825,
he was an officer in the
Society for Evangelizing

Jews. He served one term
as president.
In 1831, Adams, of
Massachusetts, returned
to Washington as a mem-
ber of the House of
Representatives. In many
of his House speeches he
attacked David Levy Yulee

of Florida, the first Jewish
member of Congress, as
"that alien Jew delegate."
Michigan's own Gerald
Ford (pictured, with for-
mer Israel Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz and indus-
trialist Max Fisher) also
celebrates a birthday this
month, on July 14.
As a U.S. congressman
from Michigan, Ford spoke
out on numerous occasions
on behalf of Soviet Jewry.
While serving as presi-
dent, he appointed the
first Jewish attorney gen-
eral, Edward H. Levi, and
the first Jewish presiden-
tial press secretary, for-
mer NBC News reporter
Ron Nessen.

Guide On Youth Programs In Israel

m

ove over, Home
Shopping Net-
work. Here comes
the American Zionist
Youth Foundation Corn-
plete Guide to Israel
Programs.
The guide, billed as
"The One-Stop Shopping
Center for Youth Pro-
grams in Israel," features
hundreds of programs for
American Jewish youth.
Among the programs
included in the guide is

Shalhevet (Hebrew for
"flame"), a leadership de-
velopment seminar for
juniors and seniors in
high school.
The Warsaw Ghetto
program is a pilot for
Jewish identity building
among college students
and recent graduates. For
a copy of the guide, or for
more information, contact
Ina Strauss at the AZYF,
(212) 339-6002.

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