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America, who did not attend the con-
ference.
Orthodox feminism, which is
viewed in his community as a danger-
ous by-product of the secular world,
has led to "almost a knee-jerk suspi-
cion of even positive things, like
women getting together to do charity
or say tehillim [psalms] for the ill and
bereaved," Rabbi Shafran said.
"People now have to stop and make
sure this is not just a Trojan horse for
the feminist movement," he contin-
ued, "because the rhetoric from the
feminist movement is so belligerent
sometimes. They've announced their
determination to storm the ramparts.
That brings a certain concern about
anything that could smack of change."
Even for many who identify as mod-
em Orthodox, "feminism" is thought
to be code for "angry women."
Indeed, the touchy issue of anger
came up at many sessions of the gath-
ering. Meeting organizers spoke of the
sharp difference between the way they
are described by their ideological
opponents and the reality of their lives
as wives, mothers and grandmothers.
And as if to prove their Orthodox
bona fides, female conference speakers
often emphasized that their desire for
change comes from positive motiva-
tion: their love of Torah and their
commitment to observance, rather
than some external drive to be just
like men.
Some "perceive us as these angry
women," said Carol Newman, a New
York City philanthropist who supports
institutes of advanced learning for
women and is vice president of JOFA.
But noting that during their last
organizing call before the confer-
ence, she was busy making orange

juice for her husband, and
Greenberg was helping her husband
find his shirts, Newman said, "I don't
know one woman at this conference
who is not involved in family life."
Greenberg, reflecting the delicate bal-
ancing act facing Orthodox feminists,
said in her keynote address that they
need to persuade those who oppose
them "that we are not looking at sweep-
ing changes that will upset Judaism.
"And if the word 'equality doesn't
work so well, we'll have to use words like
`justice' and 'mercy and 'compassion.'"
Two well-known modern Orthodox
rabbis, Marc Angel of New York City
and Alan Yuter of Springfield, N.J.,
who together led a workshop, cautioned
their listeners not to act too angry.
"Sometimes the feminists are per-
ceived as being too strident, too
demanding, too impatient," Rabbi
Angel said in an interview beforehand.
In the workshop, Rabbi Yuter
warned his listeners that "if you are
overly aggressive and angry, you'll cre-
ate opposition. When you speak loud-
ly, people go deaf When you speak
softly, people hear you."
Despite the changes brought to
Orthodox life by their movement,
conference leaders articulated a sense
of uncertainty about the path
Orthodox feminism will take.
"The Chasidic movement was
attacked and vilified in its time, but
stayed the course to become part of
the mainstream," said Belda
Lindenbaum, another philanthropist
who has founded, and funds, several
Orthodox women's Torah study pro-
grams in the United States and Israel.
"Only time will tell if we touch and
cliange the hearts of many, or if we
become just a blip in time."

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enlist their help in persuading the
government to settle for a lesser sen-
tence — life without possibility of
parole.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the
death penalty "is an absolutely
appropriate punishment for a crime
of this nature."
But Rabbi David Saperstein,
director of the Reform movement's
Religious Action Center and a long-
time opponent of the death penalty,
said he feared the government move
would deflect attention from hate
crimes and toward the controversy
over capital punishment.
The trial is to begin no sooner
than Nov. 14.

agents, Ileto was a government
worker and not white.
morrow surrendered to FBI agents
in Las Vegas a day after the rampage
and reportedly told agents that he
wanted to send "a wake-up call to
America to kill Jews."
It is unusual for the Justice
Department to seek the death penal-
ty — no one has been executed by
the federal government since 1963
— and some analysts saw the deci-
sion as part of an effort to crack
down on hate crimes.
According to the Times, some of
Furrow's defense lawyers have
approached Jewish attorneys to

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