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...Rabbi Albert Axelrad, Father Maurice R. Loiselle and Reverend Diane Moore will consume only water and light juices "as a symbolic expression of atonement over profits derived from so morally nefarious a source," according to a letter released by the three yesterday...
...onetime Southern Baptist and civilian employee of the Colorado Springs, Colo., police. In 1982 she embraced Reform Judaism, adopting the Hebrew first name Shoshana. When Miller moved to Israel in 1985, the Interior Ministry questioned the validity of her conversion because it had been supervised by a Reform rabbi. Thus, said the government, Miller was not eligible for the automatic citizenship granted Jews under Israel's Law of Return...
Fearing a court ruling in Miller's favor, Peretz came up with a compromise: he would approve citizenship but mark her identity card JEWISH (CONVERT). That upset not only Miller, who said it would make her a second-class Jew, but also former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He said that reminding a convert of the past was a "reprehensible" violation of religious law. Last month Israel's Supreme Court tossed out Peretz's proposal and ordered that Miller be registered...
Rather than carry out the court's order, Peretz resigned. On a radio show he then charged that Reform Jews were "leading the nation of Israel to destruction." Responded Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the North American Reform leader: "I reject his comments as a perversion of the truth. He is an extremist who wears blinders." Said another Reform spokesman, Richard Hirsch: "If Israel is the spiritual home of all Jews, we must be made to feel at home in Israel...
...Rabbi Moses Tendler, professor of Jewish medical ethics at Manhattan's Yeshiva University, is no less affronted by what he calls the hiring of a "uterus for nine months." He maintains, "In the old days you could buy a whole person -- a slave -- to do with as you wished. Now, if these surrogate contracts are accepted, you'll be able to buy just a specific organ...