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Rabbi Klein: Wants Israel out of the
religion business.
the State of Israel still allows the
Orthodox to have a monopoly over
life cycle authenticity ... It would be
inappropriate for me to expect that
the Orthodox recognize Reform and
Conservative legal decisions.
"What I want is for the State of
Israel to get out of the business of reli-
gion, similar to the kind of separation
that we have here in the United States.
The state ought not be the one that
determines who is Jewish, who is a
rabbi and what's a synagogue."
Many of Detroit's Orthodox rabbis
were reluctant to comment on the
issue. One Orthodox rabbi who
requested anonymity said, "Who is a
Jew is clearly defined in the Torah a
Talmud, and going by other defini-
tions brings a great deal of confusion.
What Israel doesn't want to have is the
situation we have in America today
where you don't know who's Jewish
and who's not."
Rabbi Efry Spectre, a Conservative
rabbi at Adat Shalom and the brother
of a Conservative rabbi in Israel, said
he did not have enough information
to comment in time for press dead-
lines. _
Bob Aronson, executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit, is pleased to see
some agreement concerning the con-
version law. "I'm very pleased the
Jewish Agency for Israel has taken a
leadership role and that the people,
government and religious leadership
Israel has put Jewish unity above polit-
ical considerations," he said. "This is
the first time there has been any agree-
ment, albeit tentative, between the
streams of Judaism. It goes to the very
concept of are we one people?" ❑
Communal Reaction
Detroiters comment on the religious pluralism
developments in Israel.
JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer
N
ews of a compromise on
the Jewish pluralism issue
in Israel on Sunday elicited
these responses from
Detroiters at A Taste of Israel and
,Borenstein's Books in Oak Park:
David Cohen (didn't want to be
photographed) identifies somewhere
between Orthodox and Conservative:
"I understand why it's important
to have a unified conversion system.
Even if the person converting doesn't
have concerns about it not being to
Orthodox law, the trouble is for the
generations later who may discover
they're not Jewish by standards
they've adopted or can't marry who
they choose for reasons that they
hadn't been aware of.
"A unified system would put a lot
of that to rest. I understand why
there's a desire to have a strict
halachic guideline to cover all bases."
Janelle Konstam (with daughter
Shira Teger), Orthodox:
"If Israel wants to continue pro-
moting aliyah,
which of course
it does, I think
they're going to
have to continue
to make some
compromises.
Does that mean
recognizing the
Reform and
Conservative
movements? That's okay by me, but
I'm not sure how the issue should be
resolved regarding what authorities
they would have."
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