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Conservatives Back
Women
A recent study by the Conservative
movement's Jewish Theological
Seminary found that 84 percent of
Conservative synagogue members
believe that women should have the
same rights as men in the .synagogue
and 70 percent were willing to hire a
woman as a rabbi.
The gender gap in attitudes was rel-
atively small: 84 percent of men and
85 percent of women favored women's
equality in the synagogue, while 65
percent of men and 74 percent of
women were open to hiring a woman
rabbi.
The study also found that the broad
support for egalitarianism cut across all
*key population groups and was preva-
lent even among groups considered
more traditional, such as men, older
people and the more observant.
None of Detroit's Conservative syna-
gogues has ever hired a woman rabbi,
and three — Adat Shalom Synagogue,
Congregation B'nai Moshe and
Congregation Beit Kodesh — are not
egalitarian. However, Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses, Congregation Beth Shalom and
the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue
are fully egalitarian, counting women
in the minyan and allowing them the
role of shaliach tzibbur, or leader of
prayer.
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all together, so that a meatball is the
evil of evils, destroys the rain forest
and causes famine throughout the
world," Tendler said.
Perhaps more daunting, say sup-
porters of the vegetarian cause, is the
deeply ingrained Jewish association
between meat and holy days.
Even among those for whom aware-
ness of the custom's genesis — the sac-
rifice of animals in Jerusalem's Temple
— has long been lost, a holiday or
Friday night dinner is synonymous
with a nice piece of brisket or well-
roasted chicken.
New York (JTA) — The Jewish
Vegetarians of North America have
launched a campaign to convince more
people that abstaining from eating ani-
mal products is the highest form of
kashrut observance.
The campaign is aimed at getting
vegetarianism on the Jewish agenda,
ileaccording to Richard Schwartz, a
member of the vegetarian organization,
which has about 350 members.
Schwartz outlines five points support-
ing his cause, including baal tash'chit,
the Jewish mandate not to waste or
unnecessarily destroy anything of value
and tsdar baklei chayim, the prohibition
against inflicting pain on animals.
Some traditional rabbis have objec-
tions to complete vegetarianism that
are rooted in Jewish law, Halachah.
"The Torah will not allow someone
to be a strict vegetarian," said Rabbi
Moshe Tendler, a widely-respected
Orthodox expert in bioethics. The
problem with what Jewish vegetarians
advocate is that "they have lumped it
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Statehood Resolution
Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) intro-
duced a resolution in the House of
Representatives calling on President
Clinton to declare that a unilateral
declaration of Palestinian statehood
would not be recognized by the United
States. Clinton has hinted that his
administration would adopt such a
policy, saying that Palestinian state-
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Voucher Program
Halted
U.S. House Majority Leader Dick
Armey (R-Texas) said he was abandon-
ing efforts to create a school voucher
program in the District of Columbia
this year. President Clinton earlier this
year vetoed a bill that would have pro-
vided tuition vouchers for students in
the nation's capital to use at private or
religious schools, but Republicans had
been attempting to include the vouch-
er plan as part of a spending bill for
Washington.
Armey said he decided to walk away
from the bill for now because he was
confident it could pass next year with
what he predicted would be "an even
larger majority in both the House and
Senate."
Restituti on Abuses?
Some 45 members of the U.S.
Congress called on Germany to inves-
tigate what they say are abuses in that
country's restitution program for
Holocaust survivors. The representa-
tives called on recently elected German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to look
into cases where survivors "have
received offers well below what they
deserved or even were rejected outright."
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