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On Women Leading Services
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Orthodox
Union issued a statement saying women
may not lead Friday-night Kabbalat
Shabbat services if men are present. Last
week's decision by the group's board
of directors is the latest setback for
Orthodox Jews seeking greater roles for
women in worship ritual.
"With regard to the matter of a woman
leading Kabbalat Shabbat services before
an audience of men and women, the
position of the Orthodox Union is that
such practice is improper and consti-
tutes an unacceptable breach of Jewish
tradition:' the board said.
In April, the Rabbinical Council of
America, the leading Modern Orthodox
rabbinical body, came out against the
ordination of women while encourag-
ing more "halachically and communally
appropriate professional opportunities"
for female scholars. The ruling was
in response to the near ordination of
a female rabbi in January, when RCA
member Rabbi Avi Weiss conferred the
title of rabba — a feminized version
of rabbi — on Sara Hurwitz, a mem-
ber of the clerical staff of his New York
synagogue, The Hebrew Institute of
Riverdale.
Following a harsh rebuke from the
haredi Orthodox organization Agudath
Israel of America and discussions with
RCA leaders, Weiss said he would refrain
from giving the title to other women in
the name of Orthodox unity.
In July, the International Rabbinic
Fellowship, a liberal Orthodox asso-
ciation of some 150 rabbis founded by
Weiss and Rabbi Marc Angel, declared
its support for an expanded definition of
women's communal roles in synagogue
life, but stopped short of advocating
female rabbis.
Hurwitz retains her title and contin-
ues in her position as dean of Yeshivat
Maharat, which offers training and
placement services to women similar
to that available in Orthodox rabbinical
institutions.
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Gilad Shalit
Shalit
Negotiations
Resume
JERUSALEM (JTA) --
Negotiations to release
captured Israeli sol-
dier Gilad Shalit from
Hamas have resumed,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu on Sunday said that Israel
has "renewed contact with the German
mediator" in order to free Shalit, who is
being held in the Gaza Strip.
Shalit was captured in a cross-border
raid in June 2006.
Shalit's grandfather, Zvi Shalit, told
Israel Radio Sunday that he did not see
any evidence that negotiations had been
renewed. He said Netanyahu "is killing"
his grandson if the Israeli leader does
not bring about his release.
"I don't know why the prime minister
doesn't make the phone call that would
bring Gilad home Zvi Shalit said, add-
ing that "llamas has a very limited
demand and it has not changed over the
years. The list is known?'
llamas has demanded the release
of 1,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails,
including some directly responsible for
the deaths of Israelis.
Terrorist's Wife's Warning
MUMBAI (JTA) -- The ex-wife of an
American citizen of Pakistani origin
who pleaded guilty to participating in
the Mumbai terrorist attacks report-
edly warned U.S. authorities less than
a year before the attacks.
Faiza Outalha told U.S. authorities in
Pakistan that her ex-husband, David
Headley, was planning an attack, the
New York Times reported Saturday.
Headley pleaded guilty in March
in U.S. District Court in Chicago to
charges of laying the groundwork for
the November 2008 attacks on several
locations in Mumbai, India, that killed
166 people, including six at the Chabad
house.
In 2005, another of Headley's three
wives warned the FBI in New York that
Headley was a member of the militant
group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which alleg-
edly was responsible for the attacks.
Indian investigators found that
Headley visited all 10 Mumbai locations
that were attacked, including the Chabad
center, known as the Nariman House.
The warnings were reported initially
by the investigative news organization
ProPublica and in the Washington Post.
Mike Hammer, a spokesman for
the National Security Council, said
Saturday in a statement, "The United
States regularly provided threat infor-
mation to Indian officials in 2008
before the attacks in Mumbai."
P.A. OK's History Book
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Palestinian
Authority's Education Ministry
approved a history textbook that gives
both the Palestinian and Israeli sides of
their conflict.
The textbook, called Learning the
Historical Narrative of the Other, will be
used in two high schools near Jericho,
according to Haaretz.
Israel's education minister has been
banned the book because it presents the
Palestinian narrative. Gideon Sa'ar has
called in the principal of a high school in
Sderot to explain why he allowed students
in an enrichment course to use the book.
Learning the Historical Narrative
of the Other is the result of a Israeli-
Palestinian-Swedish collaboration to
promote coexistence through education,
according to Haaretz. It has been pub-
lished in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
Israeli Soldier Jailed
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Israeli soldier
who stole electronic equipment from
an intercepted ship bound for Gaza was
sentenced to jail.
The soldier was sentenced under a
plea bargain Monday by an Israeli mili-
tary court to five months in jail. He also
was fined and demoted for removing
the items from the Mavi Marmara ship,
which Israeli commandos boarded on
May 31. Violent resistance on the Turkish
ship led to the deaths of nine Turkish
nationals, including a dual Turkish-
American citizen.
The soldier, who also was removed
from an officers training course, report-
edly stole the items — a laptop computer,
camera lenses and a compass — while
the ship was docked in the Israeli port at
Ashdod. In court, the soldier expressed
remorse for his actions and apologized.
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
Recently retired Hearst Newspapers
correspondent Helen Thomas said
last week in an Ohio radio interview
that you cannot criticize Israel in this
country and survive.
The Answer
Thomas is clearly wrong, as America's
media outlets are full of legitimate —
and sometimes illegitimate — criti-
cism of Israel. Thomas' retirement
was hastened by her anti-Semitic
call for Israel's Jews to leave and "go
home" to Poland and Germany.
- Allan Gale
Jewish Community Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
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