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Atlanta delegation voices
concerns at NCJW forum
Atlanta delegates at the NCJW Joint Program Institute in Washington
are (left to right) Margie Steiner, Diana Silverman, Nancy Levine, Beth
Sugarman, Natalie Gold, Arlene Howard and Nancy Hamburger.
The National Council of Jewish
Women held its biennial Joint
Program Institute in Washington
from Nov. 18-21. Representing the
Atlanta Section were Nancy Levine,
president; Diana Silverman and
Beth Sugarman, past presidents of
the Atlanta Section; Natalie Gold,
vice president of Community Services;
Nancy Hamburger, vice president
of administration; Arlene Howard,
vice president of Public Relations;
Margie Steiner, state public affairs
vice chairwoman.
The participants received in-depth
advocacy training, legislative updates
and agency briefings. They heard
many provocative speeches and
attended workshops which included
information on their six priority
areas of children and youth, aging,
women’s issues, constitutional rights,
Jewish Life and Israel.
The NCJW Social Action Award
was presented to Sen. Howard
Metzenbaum of Ohio. Other award
recipients included Reps. Patricia
Shroeder, Henry Waxman, William
Gray, and Stephen Solarz.
The delegation met with Georgia
Sens. Sam Nunn and Mack Mattingly,
and Reps. Wyche Fowler, Pat
Swindall and Buddy Darden. The
women spoke with the congressmen
about NCJ W’s opposition to prayer
in the public school; thanking them
for their opposition to the Arms
Sale to Jordan; to reiterate NCJ W’s
support of the Civil Rights Restora
tion Act; discussed NCJ W’s support
of the genocide treaty; to remind
them of NCJW’s support of a
woman’s right to choose abortion;
to encourage them to support
refunding of the Title X Family
Planning Program; and to discuss
NCJW’s opposition to the Gramm-
Rudman proposal which would
upset the balance of power of our
government by giving the president
authority to reduce spending using
a formula the administration
determines.
Torah
thoughts
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him.” Commentators on this verse
explain that the brothers failed to
recognize Joseph, because they had
last seen him as a lad, unbearded,
whereas now he was bearded. What
follows is an adaptation of a letter
from the Lubavitcher Rebbe to a
parent whose son had become Torah-
observant, joined the Chassidic
community and had grown a beard.
The parent found this objectionable
and wrote to the Rebbe, demanding
to know . .if one can be a
religious Jew without a beard.”
The Rebbe’s answer follows:
When seeking the solution to
any problem affecting a human
being we must deal with him as a
living person, a unique individual,
not as a robot or as a cipher in a
statistic. It follows that general
solutions of the problem might not
be at all suited to this particular
human being.
A single-storied house is a complete
house; building another floor atop
the first is only an addition to the
existing house. But once the addition
has been made, any attempt to
demolish the top floors would be
disastrous. The ground floor would
also be wrecked, and even the
foundation would be adversely
affected, for the cement and mortar
have now bound all two or three
stories together into one unified
structure. H ow much more so would
this hold true if one wanted to
demolish the ground floor!
I do not wish to enter into a
discussion as to the position occupied
by the wearing of a beard amongst
the 6I3 mitzvot of the Torah.
(Everyone knows that a number of
truly G-d fearing members of the
community of German Jewry, etc.
do not wear beards.) But here the
question must be approached as it
relates to one particular individual—
your son. His decision to wear a
beard was made with deep feeling.
It would be difficult to ascertain
whether this is his “ground floor”
(as in my example above) or an
“added story” to earlier commitments.
I doubt whether it is even useful or
wise to attempt such clarification;
burrowing deep into one’s soul in
this manner is not a healthy thing.
At any rate, it is clear that at this
stage, all aspects of your son’s
Torah lifestyle have, for him, become
unified into one structure; they
have been undertaken after profound
inner conflicts. It therefore is the
duty of all his relatives and friends—
and particularly his parents—to
offer him every encouragement.
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