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Ready and able to join after her May ordination is Amy Eilberg, 30. "The long vigil is over," she said gratefully. During the next few years she will be followed by 18 other women now in the rabbinical program at the New York City seminary, the only such school in the Conservative branch. Eilberg's assembly membership provides critical recognition for her as a Conservative rabbi. The rabbi-to-be, who is married to a religion scholar, is considering a hospital chaplaincy or a job at a synagogue in southern Indiana near her home. The Conservatives' change "creates a synthesis...
October 1978. Representative Joshua Eilberg, 59, Pennsylvania Democrat, was indicted for receiving illegal compensation. He lost his re-election race that fall and changed his plea to guilty at his February 1979 trial. He got a $10,000 fine and five years' probation...
...everyone got off, however. Congressman John McFall, reprimanded with his two California colleagues for taking Tongsun Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude...
...What Eilberg allegedly did was a direct violation of the law and of House rules: accepting outside money for legislative duties. And the evidence, says a committee source, "was right there on the table." The charges are serious enough that if they are proved at a hearing that could begin next month, Eilberg could be ousted from Congress...
...Eilberg, who denies the charges, was the Congressman who called President Carter ten months ago and successfully expedited the removal of David Marston as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia. Marston was conducting an investigation into the same charges. That probe is continuing, in close cooperation with the ethics committee, and a Justice Department official said an indictment could come "in a matter of weeks." Eilberg's Pennsylvania colleague in the House, Daniel Flood, who was indicted earlier this month on perjury charges in another case, is also being investigated for his activities on behalf of the hospital...