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Weiss also had been censured by the staunchly Orthodox Agudath Israel of America, which declared that by tak- ing such a step and insisting it was tantamount to rabbinic ordination, Weiss had placed himself outside the bounds of Orthodoxy. Weiss' Ordainment Strategy Rome/JTA — It could be five years New York/JTA — Rabbi Avi Weiss has backed away from the idea of ordain- ing women as Orthodox rabbis under the term rabba. Weiss, a promi- nent Modern Orthodox rabbi who guides the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx, had taken heat from the Orthodox commu- Rabbi Avi nity since he made Weiss the announcement in January that he would use the feminized version of rabbi for his student, Sara Hurwitz, who now has the title maharat. The Rabbinical Council of America, an umbrella organization consisting mostly of Modern Orthodox rabbis, considered revoking his ordination, The New York Jewish Week reported, though the verac- ity of the report is still under debate. But Weiss, the founder and leader of the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah rabbinical school, and the RCA apparently have come to an agreement. "It is not my intention or the inten- tion of Yeshivat Maharat to confer the title oflabba upon its graduates',' Weiss said in a statement last Friday. "Yeshivat Maharat prepares women for positions of religious leadership in the Orthodox community. Each student who completes its course of study in Tanach, Talmud, Halachah and Jewish Thought, and is deemed fit by her faith, knowledge of our Mesoret, ethical integrity and temperament to assume positions of religious leadership in Orthodox insti- tutions will be confirmed as manhigah hilkhatit, ruhanit, toranit (Maharat)." The RCA concurred in its own state- ment. "We are gratified that during the course of these conversations, Rabbi Weiss concluded that neither he nor Yeshivat Maharat would ordain women as rabbis and that Yeshivat Maharat will not confer the title of labba' on graduates of their program," the orga- nization wrote. Hurwitz has served seven years at before the Vatican's secret archives dealing with Pope Pius XII's reign are fully catalogued and opened to schol- ars, a Vatican official said. Bishop Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, made the time estimate on March 1 when he opened an event in the Canary Islands on the history of the Church, the Catholic news agency Zenit reported. There exist some 16 million docu- ments from Pius' 1939-58 pontificate, according to Zenit. Jewish and other scholars have called on the Vatican to open the secret archives from the World War II period to clarify the role Pius played during the Holocaust. Critics accuse him of turn- ing a blind eye to Jewish suffering; the Vatican and other supporters say he worked behind the scenes to save Jews. Last month, a group of Catholic schol- ars wrote to Pope Benedict XVI urging him to slow Pius' advance toward saint- hood until the matter is cleared up. According to Zenit, Pagano said the Vatican would be willing to open the archives immediately, since there was nothing to "fear" from them, but the documents must still be registered, catalogued and put into order. Pius Papers Stalled 5 Years Answering Israel's Critics The Charge Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said publicly earlier this month that a U.S. Congress divided on most issues is united on Israel because the members are con- trolled by "Zionists". The Answer Farrakhan is America's most out- spoken anti-Semite. His charge is an example of the oft-heard "Jews have too much power" canard. - Allan Gale, Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit © Jewish Renaissance Media, March 18, 2010