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London (JTA) — A senior mem-
ber of the Chief Rabbi's Com-
mission on Women revealed that
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks had
rewritten key recommendations
in its recently released report,
which said there was much to
change to improve women's lot in
the community.
Evelyn Stern expressed dis-
appointment that her committee
on religious and synagogue
affairs had not been allowed to
publish the "detailed" recom-
mendations it had prepared.
Speaking at a packed meeting
of the Women's International
Zionist Organization, Ms. Stern
said: "The printed recommenda-
tions on kaddish (the prayer for
the dead) and Simchat Torah
were reworded by the chief rab-
bi so that they would be more ac-
ceptable.
"We wanted to know when,
where and how women could
recite kaddish," she said, "not
whether."
The original text of the recom-
mendation, obtained by the Jew-
ish Chronicle, called for "written
guidelines" to clearly set out
"when, where and how women
may say kaddish."
But the published recommen-
dation merely sought "guidelines
on women's participation in reli-
gious observance, such as the say-
ing of kaddish."
The original recommendation
on Simchah Torah sought guide-
Many women at the
meeting said they
felt betrayed.
lines on women's use of the
Torah. This was omitted in the
final report.
Many women at the meeting
said they felt betrayed.
Ms. Stern said, "If Rabbi Sacks
wishes to be chief rabbi in the
21st century, he will have to be
sure that there is a United Syn-
agogue to head."
United Synagogue is a centrist
Orthodox Jewish body that gov-
erns Jewish life in Britain.
Vatican Displays
Dead Sea Scrolls
Rome (JTA) — An exhibit of the
Dead Sea Scrolls went on display
at the Vatican, marking the first
time the scrolls have been exhib-
ited in Europe, and the first time
that an official Israeli exhibition
has been shown at the Vatican.
The exhibit in the ornate Vat-
ican Library opened just two
weeks after Israel and the Vati-
can formalized full diplomatic re-
lations and ushered in a new era
of relations between the Jewish
state and the Holy See.
Pope John Paul II formally
named Archbishop Andrea
Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo
as the Vatican's first ambassador
to Israel.
The exhibit, which has been
traveling, will remain on display
here until Oct. 2.
Included in the exhibit are
fragments of a dozen 2,000-year-
old manuscripts discovered at
Qumran on the Dead Sea in the
late 1940s and early 1950s. Hun-
dreds of scrolls have been found
in the caves of Qumran since the
first was discovered by chance by
a Bedouin shepherd in 1947.
Written on leather in Hebrew,
Greek and Aramaic, the scrolls
are the earliest known biblical
manuscripts. They include por-
tions of all the Five Books of
Moses as well as writings by the
.
Essenes sect.
Nearly 100 archaeological ar-
tifacts associated with the scrolls,
including cups, pitchers, sandals,
combs and lamps, are also dis-
played in the exhibit, along with
photographs of the excavation
sites and interactive video pre-
sentations on the history of the
scrolls.
In addition, the Vatican is dis-
playing several pieces from its
own priceless collection of more
than 800 Hebrew manuscripts
dating from the ninth to the 17th
centuries.
The head of the Vatican li-
brary, Father Leonard Boyle, said
he would be willing to send some
of the Vatican treasures to Israel,
but only as part of a temporary
exhibition.
He stressed, however, that the
manuscripts in the Vatican col-
lection, which include handwrit-
ten texts by Maimonides and
other famous scholars, would
never permanently leave the Vat-
ican or be turned over to Israel.
"Whenever did they belong to
Israel?" he asked. "Most of these
were written in Spain, Germany,
Italy. They never were in Israel.
The fact that the State of Israel
is there now does not mean that
the State of Israel ever owned
these."
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