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Topic For Religious Emphasis Week At
Beth Jacob Synagogue Is "Assimilation"
'.'"Ihe threat of the survival
of the Jewish community
with what seems to be the
vanishing American' Jew
through intermarriage and
assimillation will be the
main theme for this years
Religious Emphaisis Week",
said Mr. Bernard Hirsch,
chairman. A question posed
informally by Rabbi David
Stavsky at the last meeting
of the', REW committee
caused serious concern and
deep reflection to the entire
committee when the Beth
Jacob Rabbi, after ex¬
plaining the latest statistics
of the unprecedented rate of
.intermarriage which, is
sweeping the country, said
"Wilryour grandchildren be
brought up as Jews?" "This
is a hard question," said the
Rabbi. "Perhaps even our
grandfathers may have
asked it when they came to
these shores at the turn of
the century, but with the rate
of intermarriage as we now
see it even in our own
community it takes on new
dimensions and more
critical meaning."
The keynote speaker this
year will be a rabbi and
lecturer who is being
brought back for tiie fourth
time for the Religious
Emphasis Week program,
Dr. Rabbi Isaac L. Swift.
Rabbi Swift is an in¬
ternationally known scholar
and dynamic lecturer. He is
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Pictured above are members of this years Religious
Emphasis Week Committee:
L to R weated: Mrs. Carol Elkins, Mrs. Shirley
Hoffman, Mrs. Rita Berger, Rabbi David Stavsky,
Mrs. Rita.Hoffman, Mrs. Blanche Young.
Standing: Tom Berger, Ronald Elkins, Bernard
Hirsch, chairman, Irvin Flox, Max Hoffman, and
Martin Schecter.  ■
Conservative Rabbis Announce
Inclusion Of Women In Minyans
The Jewish Community In Chile
In Aftermath Of Military Coup
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NEW YORK (WNS) - The
Rabbinical Assembly, the
international organization of
Conservative rabbis, has
announced that Con¬
servative congregations can
now count men and women
equally as members of a
minyan. Rabbi Jehuda
Nadich, the organization's
president, said the change,
which is left to the individual
decision of each rabbi and
congregation, recognizes the
new role that women are
, playing in Jewish communal
life. The decision was ap¬
proved by the Assembly's
Committee on Jewish Law
and Standards after long'and
serious discussions. A
significant minority was
opposed feeling that
tradition should be main¬
tained. The Conservative
move brought denunciations
from Orthodox groups. The
heads of Agudath Israel of
America, the Rabbinical
Council of America and the
Rabbinical Alliance of
America all accused, the
Conservative movement of
violating halacha and at¬
tempting to attract new
worshippers. Rabbi Moshe
Sherer,. Agudath executive
president, also said the
action   should   convince
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by Murray Zuckoff
JTA News Editor
NEW YORK, (JTA)-It
will be some time before the
dust settles in the wake of
the military coup that ousted
Dr. Salvador Allende
Gossens, the first Marxist to
have been democratically
elected in the Western
Hemisphere. Dr. Allende is
dead and; for the foreseeable
future, so is the edifice he
tried to build-
unsuccessfully as it turned
out—of a new economic and
political system. For the
first time since 1931 a
military junta is ruling the
country. What does this
development mean for the
approximately 25,000 Jews,
more than half of whom
came to Chile less than 40
years ago or were born in the
country and never knew the
meaning of a military
regime? What does it mean
for the Jews who were part
of the Allende Ad¬
ministration and Cabinet?
What does the new situation
mean in terms of Chile-
Israel . diplomatic relations?
For the most part, it is still
too early to venture any
specific answer. But this
much can be assumed: If the
junta remains in power and
consolidates its rule, or even
if it transfers formal power
to the hands of a puppet
''constitutional"      or
provisional government,
relations with Israel will
remain cordial; organized
anti-Semitism will be
discouraged, although
sporadic anti-Jewish actions
may increase on the part of
the right-wing and the Arab
League; and it is even likely
that some of the 3500 of the
5000 Jews who left Chile but
did not return   after  Dr.
Allende became president,'
may return. All thisPi of
course, is predicated, orghe
assumption that the junta is
itself not deposed by. the
powerful trade union
movement, the left-wing
forces and the formerly
landless agricultural
workers.
Of immediate concern,
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Ira Hirschmann To Speak At
Agudas Achim Bond Drive
Ira Hirschmann,
American Diplomatic
representative, outstanding
financier and businessman,
and a leading authority on
Middle . East affairs, will
appear at Agudas Achim
Synagogue on Rosh
Hashanah.in behalf of the
campaign for the sale of
State of Israel Bonds.
Mr. Hirschmann, a former
United States envoy in
Turkey,' undertook a con¬
fidential mission to the
Middle East in 1960 under
the auspices of the U.S. State
Department and the United
v Nations. He visited all the
countries which surround
Israel - Syria, Jordan,
Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip.
Mr. Hirschmann made
another confidential bn-the-
scene investigation of the
refugee camps in the Arab
UJA "Mission" Announces
1974 Campaign Contributions
The United Jewish Appeal
"Prime Minister's Mission"
to Israel announced con¬
tributions of $14,250,000 for
the 1974 campaign, a 25
percent' increase over last
year's Mission total of
$11,400,000, This was an¬
nounced at a special dinner
for the 250 American Jewish
community leaders led by
UJA general chairman, Paul
Zuckerman, given by
Premier Golda Meir.
She told the group that
earlier in the day she heard a
recording of the battle
waged in the Latrun area
during the War of In¬
dependence in which the
soldiers kept on yelling,
"Don't stop! don't stop."
"This is the message I have
to bring you," she said.
"Don't stop! As long as we
don't stop, we shall get to
where we .want to go."
Replying to questions, Mrs.
Meir said that Israel plans to
do much more in the next
four years for Arab
refugees, especially in the
Gaza Strip, in housing,
health and education.
Mrs. Meir stressed the
solidarity of the Jewish
nation and said, "We have
joined hands in arms to
defend ourselves, to create a
Jewish homeland and to
construct a new society.''
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'      Ira Hirschmann
countries and in Israel for
the State Department. His
observations appeared
recently in LOOK Magazine.
In previous trips to the
Middle East, Mr. Hir¬
schmann has personally
negotiated with Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion
of Israel, Colonel Nasser of
Egypt, and other high-
ranking officials, for the U.S.
State Department. He has
completed more than a
dozen survey trips to Israel
in recent years.
A special representative of
President Roosevelt in
Turkey during World War II,
Mr. Hirschmann negotiated
the rescue Of 100,000 Jews,
from the Roumanian
detentian camp of-JTran-
snistria, as well as other tens
of thousands whom he
helped save from the Nazis.
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Minority Leader Scott Delivers
Warning On Kissinger Hate Mail
WASHINGTON, (J^A) -
The increasing amount of
hate mail directed against
Secretary of State-designate
Henry A. Kissinger drew a
warning from a member of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee to any witness
who might come before the
committee to express
"venomous points of view."
Senate Minority Leader
Hugh    Scott    (R.    PaO
delivered the warning at the
confirmation hearings in the
Senate .caucus room on Sept.
11 after - telling Dr.
Kissinger, "We have had lots
of hate mall" and assuring
him that "we will take care
of them." Commenting on
the reports of anti-Jewish
hate mail against
Kissinger's nomination.
Dore    Schary    honorary
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