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Orthodox Rabbis
Leery Of Accord

Jerusalem (JTA) — A dele-
gation of leading Orthodox
rabbis from the United
States traveled to Israel to
warn against the dangers of
the accord with the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization.
Leading a so-called
"emergency mission" was
Rabbi Aaron Soloveitchik, a
senior member of Yeshiva
University's Talmud faculty
who in a private meeting
tried to convince Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Rabin that the
current peace process is
plagued with peril.
"He didn't persuade me,
nor did I persuade him," the
rabbi, who uses a
wheelchair, said at a news
conference the delegation
called following the meeting.
The session with Mr.
Rabin occurred the day
before the prime minister
was scheduled to meet in
Cairo with PLO Chairman
Yassir Arafat.
Rabbi Soloveitchik said
Jews everywhere have a tie
to the land of Israel and an
obligation to speak up when
it is in danger.
He said he told Mr. Rabin
that all those who have re-
mained silent and allowed
the agreement with the PLO
to unfold will have the blood
of their brothers on their
hands because of the Jewish
victims of PLO terrorism.
Rabbi Soloveitchik said he
would urge the settlers in
the territories to resort to
passive resistance in the face
of the accord but to eschew
violence.
The rabbis said they came
to Israel to express not only
their own outrage over the
accord but that of their con-
stituents in America.
According to a survey con-
ducted last month by the
American Jewish Com-
mittee, only 51 percent of
Orthodox Jews support the
general outlines of the
Israel-PLO accord, as oppos-
ed to 74 percent of the
American Jewish commun-
ity as a whole.
"Everyone wants peace,"
said Rabbi Max Schreier of
Brooklyn, a past president of
the Rabbinical Council of
America. "The question is, is
this peace?"
He said opposition to the
agreement was shared by
most "Torah leaders" in the
United States.
Both the Rabbinical Coun-
cil and the National Council

of Young Israel have ex-
pressed opposition to the
Israel-PLO accord.
The Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of
America has not taken a
position on it.
"We are concerned about
the (peace) process because it
was unnecessarily hurried,"
said Rabbi David Algazi of
Queens.
"It doesn't take into ac-
count the worries of the Jew-
ish community here and
abroad. We came on short
notice because we
understood the need to en-
courage people who live in
Judea and Samaria," he

Aaron Soloveitchik:
Leader of the mission.

said, using the terms for the
West Bank regions used by
many religious Jews and
Jewish settlers in the ter-
ritories.
Rabbi Algazi said he
understands that Israelis
are tired of a constant state
of war. But he said that is all
the more reason for out-
siders with a clear head to
step in and sound a warning.
"We can see things more
objectively," he said.
Rabbi Jay Marcus, spiri-
tual leader of Young Israel
of Staten Island, decried
what he called the Israeli
government's efforts to
"disparage and
delegitimize" the settlers,
whom the rabbis described
as depressed and discourag-
ed.
-
He called it a "terrible
failure of leadership" and
pledged that "we will
assume responsibility for
appeals for money from the
territories." ❑