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Pour out thy wrath upon the
nations that know thee not and
upon the kingdoms that call
not upon thy name , . .
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Rabbinical Assembly Defeats Move To
Replace Jewish Law, Standards Committee
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Report Nixon Obsessed By Fear that
'Jewish Cabal' Was Out To Get Him
NEW YORK (WNS) -
Former President. Njxon
was obsessed jvith a fear
that there was a "Jewish
cabal" out to "get" him,
according to "The Final
Days," a new book by Bob
Woodward and t Carl
Bernstein, the Washington
Post-reporters who cracked
the Watergate scandal.
According to an excerpt in
Newsweek, the authors said
Secretary of StateiHenry A.
Temple Dinner Honors Rabbi
The first Tifereth Israel-
Isrdel Dinner, off State
honoring Kapbi David W.
Zisenwine is • scheduled to
highly coveted David Ben-
Gurion Award * will be
conferred on Rabbi
Zisenwine,
\The Israel Dinner of State,
to be held under the aegis of y
State of Israel Bonds.' will
highlight .the kindling of 28
lights' .celebrating-- Israel's.
28th    anniversary,    The.
Menorah used by the late
President Zalman Shazar at
Israels  25th  anniversary,
will be brought to Columbus
for   the   .occasion,    Ben
Kissinger "was convinced
that the President was anti-
Semitic." The two "reporters
said: "As the son of German
Jews who had fled the Nazis,
he (Kissinger) » was
particularly sensitive 'to
what he regarded in Nixon
as a dangerous brand of anti-
Jewish prejudice born ol
ignorance.'He saw in the
President' an antagonistic,
gut ,; reaction which
stereotyped-; Jews and
convinced,Nixon that they
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GROSSINGER.      N.Y..
(JTA) - The 76th annual
convention of the Rabbinical
Assembly overwhelmingly
rejected March 30 a
resolution that would have -
"dissolved and replaced the
Committee on Jewish Law
and Standards with a new
committee to function on an
advisory basis." The
decision, made after a
heated debate, was
precipitated    by    recent
"rulings on the status of
women in the synagogue,
particularly a 1973 decision
that women cotlld be counted
in   a   minyan.   The. Law
. Committee, . which was
established in its present
form in 1948, has made
policy rulings for the
guidance of Conservative
rabbis on such subjects as
; marriage and divorce. But
Mitzvahs, kashruth, the
Agunah problem and mixed .
.seating, as welNas other
aspects ol the place oi
women in Judaism.
According to Rabbi Seymour
Siegel, ; Professor of
-*^PheOlogy« <at . thtk -/Juwfetv
Theological Seminary.' the
Conservative seminary, the
law committee, of which he
is chairman, has been
charged with responsibility
ot interpreting Jewish. Law
lor the Conservative,
movement. In addition to
-inquiries Irom
rabbis about
problems, the
committee has also
attempted to make Jewish
LaW relevant and responsive
to-the needs pi the Jews of
our time."
He also said the "decisions
ol the - committee have
reflected the various views
of the members of the
Rabbinical, Assembly.
Where there "is no
unanimity," he explained,
"the local rabbi may decide
which of the options
presented by Jewish Law he
wishes to institute in his
congregation." The'defeated
resolution,    which    was
presented to Hie resolutions
committee by Itabbi David
Novak of Baltimore on
behali ol a group ol more
traditionally    minded
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Abba Eban Will
Speak At Mershon
Abba Eban noted Israeli
statesman will speak at
Mershon Auditorium on
Monday. April 12, at 8 pm.
Eban's visit to Columbus is
sponsored by the Israel
Action    Committee    in
answering
member,
'Halachic
, .*.^-% Al'lia Khan
cooperation''  with    Hillel
- Foundation Student Board
and ihe " Israeli' Students
Organization.
Mr. Eban has served-in
many Capacities, Among,
them - lirst Israel
ambassador to the'lf.N.,
deputy prime-minister \ in
,Levi Eshkol's government,
education   minister   and
> loreigaaffairs minister. Mr.
Ebari is currently a member
of, the Israeli Knesset.  ,
members, would have
seriously curtailed the
authority of the Committee
on Jewish Law and
Standards and changed the
makeup of the membership
ofa successor committee.
At   an   earlier   session.
Itabbi Wolle Kclman. who
marked his 25th anniversary
as a leader of Conservalivi**
Judaism.      expressed
optimism about Ihe future or
American   Judaism,   The
executive vice-president of
the luoo-mcmbcr association
of Conservative rab|>is said
lie doesn't "mourn for tin*
good old days" but rather,
feels that this is "one of Ihe
most   dynamic   periods  of •
Jewish history." lie told the
1 convention delegates, in
response to tributes - from
many of his associates that
Judaism despite, the problem
of changing neighlHirhiMxls.
economic inflation ami a.
diminished birth rate, is at
"the threshold of a crcatiu*
age which has been
unsurpassed. in recent
centuries," Kvlimm noted
particularly M\c.
-^phenomenon in Judaism, of-
Hie steady flow of Ihe "biial
- leshuvah" ~ the returning
- ones - often vvhjisc parents
disregarded religion*, with
the new generation,
rediscovering the laith of
their grandparents. .He
expressed Ix-lief tlmt a great
many American Jews have -
"moved away (rom an age
suspicious^." ol emot ion.
skeptical"  about    the
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International Harvester Co.
Gets Anti-Arab Boycott Vote
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)
— In the first vote ol a
nationwide campaign,
shareholders ' of
International Harvester last
week cast 1,200,000 votes (or
5.2"percent of the total).in
lavor    of    a    resolution
A Bicentennial Haggadah
Goodman
Margulies
announced.
Rabbi
Zisenwine.
and    Julius
co-chairmen.
Rabbi David Zisenv. ine
take place en Thursday/
evening, April 29lh/ at
Tifereth Israel. One of the
highest Israeli awards, the
David      W.
Distinguished
leader for the faith of Israel,
(he people ol Israel and the
land of Israel,,' Rabbi
Zisenwine has won the love
and esteem of Congregation
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By Robert E.Segal
(\ Seven Arts Feature)
"Its progenitors were an
impoverished Condon hatter
and' the repentant son of a
Presbyterian minister."
With these inviting words,
the Jewish Publication
Society, in this season of the
American > Bicentennial,
Introduces a small but
attractive reprint of the first
American Passover
Haggadah — "a modest
volume in Hebrew and
English."
Published-in New York in
1837 in Hebrew and English,
this first American edition of
the Bicentennial Haggadah'
proclaims that the words
therein set <lown are fash¬
ioned to "the custom of the
German and Spanish Jews."'
This is no thumbworn, dog-"
eared Haggadah, one of the
most precious possessions in
families ot millions of
Jewish emigrants fleeing
Russia and Poland for Amer¬
ica in the late 19th and very
early 2Qth centuries. No,-it is
a solemn, neat handbook ol
prayer and supplication and
celebration, quite in
harmony with the unhurried
pace or America's colonial
Jews — the Sephardim and
German-speaking, some
directed here at the time of
the .German revolution and
some tearing the noble scars
of oppression in Spain and
Portugal and eventual flight
from South America.
A different kind of
Haggadah, but delightful to
peruse as we all now con¬
centrate at festival time on
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submitted by the American
Jewish Congress that would
require the company to
prepare a detailed report on
its policy toward compliance
with Arab boycott demahds.
An AJCongress spokesman
— noting that the Congress
owned only five shares ot
.stock in the-company —
hailed the result as "a"
remarkable demonstration
of public support of our
campaign to expose
pressures On American
industry to surrender to the
Arab boycott,". Edwin M.
Epstein, associate dean of
the school of business at the
University of California and
a leader of the AJCongress
in San Francisco, presented
the resolution v at the
meeting.
In a statement following
the vote, Epstein noted that
the number of votes in favor
of the AJCongress resolution
/'comfortably exceeded the
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