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A Reform movement proposal
sparks debate on
what it is to be a Jew.

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ISSUE DATE: August 14, 1998
AD DEADLINE July 29, 1998

LONNY GOLDSMITH
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he Reform movement has
always considered the child
of an intermarried couple as
Jewish, regardless of the
religion of either parent.
However, Temple Emanu-El Rabbi
Joseph Klein questions a recommen-
dation by a Reform movement task
force to change the language that clar-
ifies who is a Jew within the move-
ment.
"The [Reform] movement has
always recognized the children of only
one Jewish parent," Klein said. "To
formally make that declaration only
aggravates the relationship between
the Reform, Conservative and
Orthodox movements."
The suggestion to modify "patrilin-
eal descent" to "equilineal descent"
was made before the Central
Conference of American Rabbis con-
vention in June, and if passed, would

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change the movement's definition of
who is a Jew. Rabbi Samuel Stahl of
Temple Beth-El in San Antonio, Tex.,
who headed the Ad Hoc Task Force to
Study the Resolution of Jewish
Descent, said the issue will be exam-
ined at the CCAR executive board
meeting in November.
Stahl described it as a "principled
move, not a move made to expedite
the process of becoming a Jew. It grew
out of our commitment to gender
equality."
Klein said a non-Reform rabbi
remarked to him that, "It's too bad
you had to make a big deal."
Rabbi Norman Roman of Temple
Kol Ami is supportive of the move to
clarify, but he is against substantial
changes. "I don't see a major problem
with equilineal or patrilineal descent,"
he said. "Some think it's too radical a
change from Jewish tradition, but
matrilineal descent was a radical
change from the Torah."
Roman, unlike Klein, doesn't

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