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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, June 9, 1972
Editor Slomovitz Urges
Revival of Sanhedrin
DETROIT, Mich. (WUP)—Phil
ip Slomovitz, editor of the Jewish
News, Michigans only Knghsh-
Jewish newspaper, has called for
the revival of a Sanhedrin-type
international Jewish body to
deal with current religious issues
dividing the Jewish world.
"So many conflicts have arisen
in Jewish ranks in recent vears.
with even greater pressure since
the emergence of the State of Is
rael,' declared editor Slomovitz
in one of his recent columns,
"that the need for the revival
of the Sanhedrin to deal with
basic problems becomes most
urgent.
“Not only the 'Who Is a Jew.'
c(implication and the sad involve
ments affecting marriage, divorce,
conversions and otner challenging
religious matters." he stressed,
"but many everyday events often
arise to affect religous unity.”
Mr. Slomovitz cites a typieat
example needing clarification.
The I-ondon Jew ish Chronicle, he
said, reported that “a coin minted
specially for the ceremony of
pidyon haben (redemption of the
first-born) has been declared
nonkosher by a leading Israeli
rabbi. It bears the date of the
Christian year.”
The Detroit Jewish editor goes
on to say that ‘‘many such prob-
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School Bible Studies
Worry S. African Jews
terns arise which need solution.
There was a time,” he notes,
' w hen Reform was trefa, now
both Reform and Conservative are
anathema to the Orthodox. This
is unfortunate because the Orth-
■ 'ox arc a third of our people,
at.fi two-thirds of a world-wide
a ree is not rejected or ignored or
not-to-be-talked-to. It is oj the
rtmost urgency, therefore, that
u i elements get together to re-
evaluate religious needs, dogma,
regulations, and apply them to
cur time."
Concluding his column, Philip
Slomovitz makes this challenge:
"Will a courageous man like
i cl Aviv Chief Rabbi Shlomo
CJoren, who is slated to become
i hief rabbi of Israel, take the
lead to overcome Orthodox oppos
ition to the idea of a Sanhedrin
that should discuss the issues that
confront us in modernity and
which should bp resolved modern-
ly?
Are there enough responsible
Jews, lay and rabbinic, in all
quarters of Jewish life, to press
for the convening ol such a rab
binic assembly to iron out differ
ences?”
Sooner or later a “Sanhedrin”
w ill of a necessity have to be
convened—in Jerusalem. It is the
need of the day.
JOHANNESBURG (JTA)
A new doctrinal emphasis in
scriptural studies in South
Africa’s state-run schools is
causing serious concern in the
Jewish community.
The Congress of the South
African Jewish Board of Dep
uties has instructed the Board’s
executive council to give the
matter urgent consideration and
work toward a unified position
“to protect and advance the in
terests of Jewish parents, pup
ils and teachers.”
Bible studies have always
been part of the South African
school curriculum. In the past
they were broad in character
and, while including the New'
as well as the Old Testament
not doctrinal. New regulations,
however, specify that religious
instruction in State schools
shall be “Christocentric” and
directed, among other things,
“to prepare the pupil, through
his knowledge of the Bible, to
accept Jesus Christ as his per
sonal Saviour.”
Delegates to Congress stressed
that such instruction was clear
ly unacceptable to Jews and
recalled a provision of the Edu
cational Ordinance that “no
pupil shall be required to be
present at the giving of relig
ious instruction, if the parent of
such pupil expresses in writing
any conscientious objections to
such instruction.”
In Cape Providence the Cape
Council of the Board of Jewish
Deputies has urged Jewish par-
Purdue Changes
Admission Policy
NEW YORK (JTA) — After
three years of “cooperative” and
“cordial” negotiations and five
changes, Purdue University in
Indiana has agreed to cease lim
itations on applications from
New York State and New Jer
sey, which have high percent
ages of Jews and other minor-
i t i e s , the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith reported
this week.
The ADL and the Purdue
Hillel organization began their
challenge in June 1969, con
tending that limitation of out-
of-staters to offspring of gradu
ates —- and then only within a
quota — was discriminatory to
the minorities.
The new policy states that
"special consideration may be
given to the sons and daughters
of alumni of the university pro
vided the applicants meet the
prescribed academic require
ments and standards for admis
sion.”
It adds that those meeting
these tests “will be admitted in
so far as the financial resources
and the facilities of the univer
sity permit.” The non-refund-
able application fee imposed on
out-of-staters has been elimina
ted, too, but the out-of-stater
maximum of 25 percent re
mains in effect.
ents to exercise their right by
withdrawing their children
from religious instruction class
es. In other provinces the posit
ion is still under study.
The Congress issued a state
ment acknowledging the State’s
desire to strengthen the relig
ious spirit in education but ex
pressed “concern at the possi
bility of the Jewish community
being adversely affected” by the
new regulations. The statement
said the Congress “trusts that
the rights and opportunities of
members of the Jewish faith for
training, appointment and ad
vancement in the education sys
tem will be fully safeguarded.”
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