Word: rabby
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Revering Z.P.G. "The statistics only really began to hit us in the past few years," says New York City Conservative Rabbi William Berman, who a year ago organized the Jewish Population Regeneration Union to promote a reversal. Zero population growth may be a good idea for humanity in general, he believes, but "it's not a service to humanity for Jews to disappear." Since Jews constitute only three-tenths of 1% of the world's population of 4 billion, Sol Roth, president of the New York Board of Rabbis, reasons that "the Jewish community will not solve...
...United Methodist Church has 500 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has 189, compared with 103 in 1972. The Lutheran Church in America, which began ordaining women in 1970, has 24 women in clerical posts. U.S. Judaism recently gained its second female rabbi. The number of women wearing the cloth is sure to expand soon because many more are in training. The proportion of women enrolled in the 195 schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools is now about 14%, up from 10% in 1972. But there have been greater changes in some...
...Washington itself, pro-Israel lobbying has so far been decidedly soft-sell. Last week a group headed by Rabbi Israel Miller, head of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, met with Joseph Sisco, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Later the group talked with 20 Jewish U.S. Representatives. "I think the Jewish leadership is concerned, but it hasn't really got into lobbying yet," says Thomas Rees, a Democratic Congressman from a largely Jewish district in Southern California...
...smashing a quarter-inch-thick glass window in his Manhattan office and plunging through it to his death on the pavement 44 floors below. Black's relatives said that they knew of nothing that might have driven the executive, who was a descendant of ten generations of rabbis and a former rabbi himself, to take his life. Business associates also were puzzled-though they noted that his company, a gangling conglomerate, had lost $46.8 million in 1974 on sales of more than $2 billion. As it does following the unusual death of the head of any large U.S. business...
Israel J. kazis, the temple's rabbi, told the audience that the festival was "designed to present a sorely-needed balance to the current view of the presidency...