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...traditional Judaism, a service can be held without a rabbi but not without a minyan (congregation) often men aged 13 or over. In emergencies nine men and a young boy will do; women have not counted at all. The liberal Reform branch of Judaism has no such sex rule, and last week the middle-of-the-road Conservative branch announced that it too was abandoning the tradition. The 9-4 vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is a natural outgrowth of the Conservative branch's earlier move to provide religious education for women, and of those...
...committeeman who voted against the move, Rabbi David M. Feldman, still had doubts: "I wouldn't want to see a unisex law." The ruling nudges Conservatives away from Orthodoxy, and last week the heads of both the largest body of Orthodox rabbis and of the Reform synagogue union implied that U.S. Judaism might now end up with only two branches−those who keep the strict traditions and those...
...Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, interreligious affairs director for the committee, conceded that the "Christ killer" image of the Jews "has lost its power" in the U.S. But, he said, it is still a danger to Jews in some countries where the film will be shown. Actually, the film is such a screaming, witless enterprise (TIME, July 30) that religion and stereotypes aside, it probably deserves Strober's appraisal as a "catastrophe." In other respects, the criticism seems exaggerated; it is doubtful that anyone not already a confirmed bigot would be swayed by the film. As for criticizing the Temple...
Speaking to a trade-union group in Jerusalem, the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Goren, demanded that Israel "uproot this affliction. There is nothing antidemocratic about such legislation, and decent people of all faiths will support it." About the last point the rabbi is partly right, since most established Christian groups have little use for the Jews for Jesus and other overzealous evangelists. In a letter to the Jerusalem Post, Franciscan Father Joseph Cremona, who has lived in Israel for 30 years, protested the missionaries' efforts. "I am not here to suggest that the government curb missionary activity...
Some militants are pursuing their own solutions. Two weeks ago, eleven members of the Jewish Defense League were charged with arson against a missionary bookstore. At a protest fast at the Wailing Wall, the J.D.L.'s rabble-rousing Rabbi Meir Kahane announced, "If you lose a Jew in Auschwitz or through conversion, it's still a soul lost." He later proclaimed the formation of a 25-member countergroup called "Christians for Moses...