Word: rabbis
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...dark past they are hoping at last to exorcise and bury. By the same token, the Mengele hunters and the survivors of the Holocaust, in which some 10 million people were killed, have mixed feelings about the possibility that Mengele has been finally laid to rest. That prospect, says Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, brings "a sad sense of relief." If Mengele is gone, he will never be brought to justice; his crimes will be buried like his victims...
...declined assistance from abroad. Last week, however, the Wiesenthal Center supplied the Brazilians with the dossier it had assembled on Mengele and prevailed on them to allow three U.S. experts to observe the forensic process. "I understand that it is Brazil's national pride that is in question," said Rabbi Hier, "so it is difficult for them to say that American experts are going to be the ones at the table. But that is exactly what is going to happen." West Germany also sent over three forensic specialists to watch the proceedings...
Yellow armbands will be available in the Houses and Union at Sunday brunch. The Coordinating Council of Hillel Patrick M. Bennet '85, Former Co- President. Catholic Students Association Thomas Ferrick. Humanist Chaplain, Harvard Radcliffe The Reverend David I., Fountain, Assistant Minister, Memorial Church Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Hillel Director Thomas F. Rice '85, President, H-R Christian Fellowship
...decision was opposed by 30% of the Conservative rabbinate, and women were admitted only through parliamentary finesse. A three-fourths majority is normally necessary to approve an individual candidate. In 1983 and 1984 the Rabbinical Assembly convention fell short of that vote on a move to allow a woman rabbi to transfer from the Reform branch. But the new measure, automatically admitting seminary graduates, was passed as a constitutional amendment requiring only a two-thirds majority...
...decision thus moves the Conservatives closer to liberal Jews and widens the gap with the Orthodox on the right, who deem the change unthinkable because traditional religious law limits several customary rabbinical duties to men. Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, executive vice president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, notes that when the Conservative movement arose a century ago, "they viewed themselves as a moderate wing of Orthodoxy. Through this decision they have broken all pretense of being part of Jewish tradition...