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...tried to keep pace with the smoothly-oiled Republican machine, but with considerably less success. The committee has thus far raised far less than the GOP's $35 million, and several campaign officials blaim the lag on peer management in the DNC camp. These critics point to the $2.8 million loss on a highly publicized telethon last September, which DNC Chairman Charles T. Manatt and either committee members estimated would set a record $10 to $20 million. And a December fundraising tour raised barely half of its projected $2.5 million gain...
...other Democratic contenders lag even further behind Mondale, and may be severely hamstrung by their lack of funds. McGovern, who entered the race last October, has collected less than $30,000 compared to Mondale's $11 and Glenn's $7 million. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has thus far raised close...
Although the Conservative Jewish movement has decided to allow women to become rabbis, your article says the Conservatives "still lag behind" the Reformed group, which began ordaining women in 1972. As an Orthodox rabbinical student, I feel that it would have been more accurate to say that the Conservatives lag behind the Orthodox, who have preserved the true law of the Torah through the generations and have not yielded to the recent pressure of the secular feminists...
...Conservatives, however, still lag behind Judaism's Reform wing, which began ordaining women in 1972, and the tiny, liberal Reconstructionist movement, which first accepted women rabbis in 1974. Today there are 73 female rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, and a number of them, in fact, are serving in Conservative synagogues. Although the 1,200-member Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis, has favored the ordination of women for years, it left the final decision to J.T.S., the intellectual center of the 100-year-old Conservative movement. In 1979 the seminary's faculty put off making...
Since the "lag time" for education reforms to take effect can be as long as 30 years, it is important that the government act quickly to convert popular support into concrete programs. But before they act, policy makers must learn to distinguish the ceiling from the floor...