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them. At one near the Ohio bor-
der, testimony to Jesus was giv-
en. But at two others, the men
showing the opportunity were
Orthodox Jews.
It felt good being among these
Jews.
My trepidation, though, con-
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ome of my best friends are
Conservative and Reform
Jews!
I write these words not
in an attempt to paraphrase the
infamous words of Arnold Toyn-
bee. I write them because it's a
fact: Some of my best friends are
Conservative and Reform Jews.
So imagine how shocked I was
to read that the Union of Ortho-
dox Rabbis of the United States
and Canada was issuing a procla-
mation which, according to the
Baltimore Sun, would "declare
Reform, Conservative are not
Jews" and, according to the New
York Times, would declare that
the Reform and Conservative
movements are "not Judaism."
I need my non-Orthodox
friends to know that those rab-
bis do not speak for me, nor do
they speak for my rabbinic orga-
nization, the Rabbinical Council
of America, the largest Orthodox
rabbinic group, comprising more
than 1,000 rabbis. Nor do they
speak for the Rabbinical Coun-
cil's lay counterpart, the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congrega-
tions of America.
So who does this Union of Or-
thodox Rabbis speak for? They
speak for themselves, and no
one's quite sure who they them-
selves are. All that we can know
for sure is that their proposed
proclamation has given all Or-
thodox Jews a bad name and
serves absolutely no useful pur-
pose.
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg is
spiritual leader of Beth Tfiloh
Congregation, Stevenson, Md.
Really, what did they hope to
achieve? Did they really think
that Conservative and Reform
Jews would now leave their syn-
agogues and join Orthodox ones
because of this proclamation? Is
there anyone anywhere who did
just that? The only thing the
proclamation accomplishes is to
publicly insult Reform and Con-
servative Jews and their religious
beliefs.
I, as an Orthodox rabbi, com-
mitted to Halachah, or Jewish
law, admittedly do not accept
those practices of the non-Or-
thodox movements that I believe
contravene halachic standards.
But I would never dare attempt
to de-legitimize these move-
ments. On the contrary, I firm-
ly accept the stance that Rabbi
Dr. Norman Lamm established.
As the president of Yeshiva Uni-
versity, my alma mater, which
ordains the greatest number of
Orthodox rabbis, he states: "If
non-Orthodox Jews are sincere
and they believe in God and if
they endeavor to carry out the
consequences of their faith in a
consistent manner — then they
are religious people." They cer-
tainly are!
It was the sainted first Chief
Rabbi of Israel, Ray A.Y. Kook,
who explained how it was
possible for him to develop such
a close relationship with secu-
lar Jews: "In a world that is
filled with so much sinat chi-
nam, hatred for the Jew with no
reason, we must counteract it
with ahavat chinam, love for
every Jew, even when there is
no reason."
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