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Kehillat Chaim Invites you to a Prospective Member Gathering Wed., August 27,1986 at 8:00 PM Come meet Rabbi Harvey J. Winokur and Members of Kehillat Chaim Congregation for Further Information Call 252-4441 “A reform congregation serving the North Atlanta suburbs.” cordially invites you to attend an /4?£ A /kuclleH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1986 PREVIEW 7:30 p.m. AUCTION 8:15 p.m. TO BE HELD AT TOWER PLACE HOTEL 3340 PEACHTREE ROAD, N.W. ATLANTA, GA. Donation: l 3 00 Advance Purchase Cash Bar *3.50 At Door Door Prize Refreshments and 1 Complimentary Glass of Wine Meet Guest Artist Linda Appleby During Our Preview Hour Parking Tickets Validated Master, Visa & American Express Charges accepted To Benefit Student Health & Social Services Another Fine Auction By Marlin Art Inc. 920 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, N.Y. 11729 (516) 242-3344 Women’s American ORT-Atlanta Region 1532 Dunwoody Village Parkway, Suite 209, Atlanta, Ga. 30338 (404) 393-8555 Panel to put heads together to rule on yarmulke issue by Joseph Polakoff ISIS Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—The fate of proposed legislation that would permit Jew's to wear yarmulkes indoors while serving in the United States armed services will reach a decisive stage in mid-September when Senate and House conferees are to discuss differences between the two chambers on the religious matter and other differences in their authorizations of funding for the Department of Defense. On the basis of the proceedings in the two branches of Congress, analysis would indicate that the conference committee will adopt an amendment legalizing use of “neat and conservative religious wearing apparel” as the legislation proposed in both houses recom mends. However, Pentagon pres sure against deviation in any way from standard uniforms has in creased to the point of having achieved a narrow victory for its view in the Senate after losing in the House. Final legislative deci sion is therefore seen as going either way. Action in Congress came four months after the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 against the view of an ordained Orthodox rabbi. Air Force Captain Simcha Goldman, who sued Defense Secretary Cas par Weinberger for the right to wear a yarmulke. The House accepted the pro posal in support of yarmulkes of fered by Rep. Norman Sisisky (D- Va.). He introduced it in the Armed Services subcommittee on person nel and the full committee later adopted the amendment and sent it to the floor where acceptance was similarly accorded. The Senate, however, entered Patronize our Advertisers they help bring you The Southern IsraelTte Frank Lautenberg into full debate later and by a vote of 51 to 49 defeated the measure offered by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) which was identical in language to Sisisky’s. The eight Jewish senators split evenly. Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) was in the forefront of support for legi timizing yarmulkes. He noted oppo nents of the Lautenberg proposal had pointed to burdens that per mission for wearing yarmulkes would impose on military leaders. “I do not think this imposes an insuperable burden on the service secretaries,” Wilson said. “The standards are clear. They do give discretion. It is workable. It is worth whatever effort is necessary on their part to assure that the fighting men and women of this country are permitted to be re minded of what they are fighting for in addition to their country, and it is the freedom of religious expression. It seems to me that is worth whatever small burden at taches.” L.autenberg said Goldman as well as many others in the armed servi ces “had worn skull caps for many years in the military service with out any apparent disruption, diffi culty or adverse impact on military effectiveness.” The U.S. Army, he said, had “for years” accepted Sikhs Carl Levin and allowed them to wear their turbans for decades. “It still allows them to re-enlist under those con ditions,” he said. However, he added, the Army has stopped enlisting Sikhs since “its lawyers voiced con cern that if the Army tolerated Sikh turbans, it would have to allow safron robes as well.” In Canada, New Zealand and India, Sikh and Jewish soldiers are per mitted their religious headwear and their religious artifacts, he said. In the United Kingdom Sikhs wear turbans and can keep their hair long, if they choose. Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Minn.), one of four Jewish senators who sup ported Lautenberg’s amendment, observed that “very few of our mil itary people are of the Orthodox Jewish faith. We have a propor tionate percentage of our military that are Jewish, but most of the members of the Jewish faith are Reformed and Conservative Jews or Reconstructionist Jews. They do not have this requirement of wearing the small skullcap when they are indoors. But those of the Orthodox Jewish faith have this religious requirement. 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