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Movement accepts Jewish pa-
trilineal descent as sufficient for
Jewish status. The response is
inclusion.
A new phenomenon is the
stereotyping of Jewish women:
the Jewish wife as sexually cold
and financially demanding, the
Jewish mother as overly-pro-
tective and overly-pressuring.
This has given Jewish men an
excuse to marry women of the
Christian majority. Romantic
love may be the basis for some
intermarriages, but not an epi-
demic.
The cause of the intermar-
riage epidemic is sociological,
and it will require a sociological

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Nira Lev received the Schochet Family Outstanding Teacher Award at a recent
Jewish Federation board meeting. Mark E. Schlussel, chairman of Federation's
executive committee, and David K. Page, Federation's president, made the
presentation.

Chabad May Keep
Booth At Airport

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
Supreme Court has ruled
that the Chabad Lubavitch
movement may continue
operating its booth in Ben-
Gurion Airport, which offers
religious services to passen-
gers.
However, the court impos-
ed restrictions on Chabad,
saying it may not distribute
religious material to those
who do not solicit it and may
not preach Chabad
"ideology."
The ruling was a response
to petitions challenging the
Chabad operation filed by
the left-wing Meretz bloc

said they were disappointed
that the court had failed to
"give proper emphasis" to
"the clear connection bet-
ween Chabad's religious ac-
tivities" and its "political
(efforts) to undermine the
peace process."
The Reform petition had
sought permission to open a
similar booth, claiming a
refusal would amount to re-
ligious discrimination. If not
permitted, it then asked that
the Chabad booth be closed.
The Meretz petition also
called for its own booth to
• distribute political material.

and the Movement for Pro-
gressive Judaism, the Israeli
branch of the Reform move-
ment.
Representatives of both
petitioners welcomed the re-
strictions on Chabad but

Both requests were denied.
A central claim of both
petitions was that Chabad is
being awarded privileges on
the basis of its religious sta-
tus but is, in fact, being
openly political. ❑

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