1 \ \ J ) II Page Nineteen r Thursday, August 21, 1964 Thursday, September 3,1964 THE JEWISH POST I'hM~_~~g~I~~~!~~_?~__ . __ ==____ , __________________________________ ~T~B~S~~I~B~W~I~S~B~P~O~S~T~ ________________________________________~ __~ __~~_ , ------------------------ Religious Dilemma In• Israel binical Assembly and consists of lu tioll now gol ng on is one of the hottest members of the Conservative rab­ crucibles in which the relevance and binate; and this disqualification is oll'CCt!VllIlCHH of religion iil today's world due solely to their membership in if! heing teKlerl. And the results of the THE PRESIDENT OF THE the Rabbinical Assembly. The coer­ 11I!III'IIII~d "'11111 Cmlllell WmIlUII, thl' IllIhll"1I1I1I1I 01 teHt at'e determined by the answerH to UNITED SYNAGOGUE OFFERS cive positioh adopted by the Orthodox Uw N"tl"II .. 1 (:111111",1 of JI'WINh WIIllum t.wo t'elllt.ed qucHtions: To what extent rabbinate in Israel has already been i~ the l1Iot'l\l outlook of the particulm' A PROPOSAL TOWARD THE responsible, since the State of Israel came into being, for alienating a large relil1'lon actually shaping' the kind of RESOLUTION OF THE VEXED · (Ultl NO 1\ 11)(12 flUI'VOY uj' thl' IIttill\dO~ 01' Hocietr its \ll'ophdH and ils preachers sector of Jewish Israelis from even D. .lllwll in It nu\,lot' dty oj' 1\ bordlll' stu hI, ()\ll) detlcl'ibl' liS good 'I To whnt extent is the a minimum adherence and' observ­ 0\' \.huf\IJ bIJIIII\' inttwvlllWllli Willi tltlltorl WhOU1Cl: hI) .ol'jl·lml:wd religioll in(\uencing its com­ Mr. Maislen, President of the United ance of our faith. There is currently 1\~1'\)li(1 tim I ",Iowll\h OI'Il'I\I\\:'mUolI~ ~h()lIld ,1ol.n llIl111icllnls so (hll( t.hey net in their daily Synagogile of' America, is a prominent taJdng place in Israel a repetition of with t)tl\lW~\ to flOC\Il'O dlll\\IIl'I'cll'lIlhm ()[ tho public lives in nn~ordancc with the socinl vision New York attorney who submitted testi- the plight of American religious . mony to the United States Senate on Jewry in the early 1900's. I'Il'lwulH," '\ ' r II ' or Uwit' 1'l1ligioU8 teachings? issues involving the separation of chur"h "01' \'m\l'~(l\," hl' 1\IIllwo1'od. '. I n ~'Oll\l1\'11 o\~ AS'nillst theKe cl'iteriu, nt least one and state in opposition to proposed legis­ One of the reasons for the emer­ ~'l\ll gd Idllml 1'01' hill COlll\lI'y,. he OUll'ht. ;0 b~ (~I'itic hilS round the Jewish group wnnt­ lation aimed at undoing the Supreme gence of Conservative Judaism in the IIhll' til get IW mlm!llt lUll wilh IIth(11' Amm iCI\I\K. ing. In nn 1I1'tide entitled The Negro Court's decision barring prayers in the United States was to save and con­ Lllt,ilI', tim tlI\1lI11 nUlII wt\1'I l\l'Ilwd, "Wuuld YO~I Vldm'Y and the .Iewish Failure in the schools. serve traditional Judaism from the IIhJ(l(l\. lu NIlIl:I'Ul\1l movllll\' into this 1I1)lghbor- mugmdm' 1\lI1e1'I(,IIU Judllisnt Inst 1'1111, coerciveness and rigidity of Ortho­ hood Y" Albert VOI'Slllln, directol' of the Commill­ doxy. We are now confronted with .• , Al'o ~'I)U Idl\(lIug '/" WtlS his \'\lply, "I'd even· Kion 011 Social Adion of Reform .Tudaism, HE DOCTRINE of separation of the same challenge with respect to Knid: church and state was conceived United Synagogue Presideht George Maislen (left) in conversation with Israel's a meaningful survival of Judaism in oh,1t'ill to L\lIm Homll I" " "aIOOl Everett (right) T . But thllll, 1111 till Ilrtorlho\l~ht. ho ndd?d, Of ".Jews stnl'ted ahend, but we have civil rights campaign with the Rev. Ralph~~~~~;~~c~:~~, D. treasurer by our Founding Fathers in the President Zalman Shazar in Jerusalem. Israel. We must once again have the ~!llm'II~, It wouldn't l'\lully. I\truut mo, lJo(.t\lI~e I \~tl\n~d \\'Iwl'e \\'c wcre. The trou- of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. United States and enacted into law courage to accept this challenge. IIvl.l III 1\1\ I\\}tll'tmollt, Hut [ (It\l'\) t\lJout m~ nmgh: bl,:is I hut ol1\(n's arc now rushing by the First Amendment to the Constitution. There is always the tendency to speak There is not only room for but a need for theological hOl'II, I wouldn't; Wtlut thom tn 100lll tho \tlilitl of pust us. And it is not only the Negroes whose angry forward While the American concept of separation loosely about "freedom," "the free world," pluralism in Jewry in Israel. It is a sort of unplanned thl!\t' $:m,O()O hmnul'l I" , burst frequently seems to climb over our backs, flattening us in of church and state does not exist in any "liberty," "freedom of speech" and similar and unorganized system of checks and balances, which '1'h\1'I 1\\1\11'1:\ rUI:\\IOIl8US sumnuu'l:t.U t1l,,1 tlttltlld~\" the midst of the parade. Increasingly, Catholics and Protestants, other part of the world, religious freedom terms. Every form of freedom or liberty is together with a full program of relig-ious Jewish educa­ of II IIU\.)tlll\l\lh~\ 1\\!IJ:\\\olll 0\' Amlll'kl\ll .IIlWI:Y :., \l~ most of whom were late starters and many of whom weren't even' does exist in most parts of the free world. necessarily subject to law. "Freedom" can­ tion for Israeli youth would serve as the strongest safe­ !'I\(lt, hu \'Il\ll'tll:limt 1\ \l:il1\tl\'111 lU\\llollt'·Y, A nU\JO[\t.~ in the rnee until recently, are moving past us.". This is particularly true in those countries not be understood to mean that each individual guard against the dangers of conversion from Judaism "Wllile m()~t. Jew~ espouse \)r Amil\'hmll.lt\WII fnvm' till! prillcill\tl thnl NIlP,·I'Oc.'~ Words Without Action? that have subscribed to a United· Nations has the freedom to act as he chooses, regard­ to any other faith. IIhOl\l\\ {\c\\\(W{) ilqUt\\ l'i)\,hls, III the tllll'\'IlY of the Ilrll1ciple of Nell'ro equulity. sub - commission's draft declaration on the less of how his interpretation of freedom l\\tmy mllUuge to u\'oid e0l!-­ Mr. Vor"pun then went on to cite the clear and affirmative whtull thlll il\dN\(\unl \VIlli 1\ \)I\\'\;, fo\' UXI\l\\\l\t', ndions of the Catholic (,hurch and its church bodies, of the United elimination of all forms of religious intoler­ affects his neighbor, No freedom can be ~o \\il\' ()Ilnt.. or 1\\\ thOSIl ll\tt.ll'~'i~WL'tl, ngl,twd ymt frontinA' the llroblellls 111 tllear ance. The State of Israel is a signatory to absolute. own 1·I"e~." says the uuthor. Presbytel'ian Church, and of the National Council of Churches of .h)w\lIh O\'~'nl\hmUmll:\ lIho\l\d ,\0\1\ With ntlll'ttl ttl Christ in Ame,·ica. a body including most of the Protestant this historic document. Under the protective cloak of freedom of hlll\1 1I1l1ll\l~ t\t.~,\l'~I'tl~I\\;\()\\ or thl! Sd~\lOltI. Imitll'(\, Are ,Iew~ Ih'ing up to their In the pluralistic society of America, many speech, groups are permitted to gather in rl'l'llImslbilitil'S ill the struggle demoninations in thi8 country. He pointed out that these groups 'l't\ 'WI' \'IlUt. Hl' till) 1)l\\'t\l\ttl of prmm\'Y sch.onl hud organized "pecial efforts to mobilize their participation in i,. religious bodies, because of their former public places and slander a class of people in rot' d\'i1 ri.llhts - ill their , l~hlMI't\n l\IId (om· 1'0\' \lQllt; of tim I'I\l'\lI\t~ ~.f \\Ig'h uS8uring equnlity for Negroes - and had allotted large sums of inability to practice their faith freely, and the most vicious manner or to spread the dli\tl\'el\ Um,\' npPI':I.n'll It religious Il'.lldl'rshill, t heir com-I ,.~ Ill'lmo\ sllid w\)\ll~l th~~... , money to nmke this renl. including the Jews because of their unhappy "big lie" suggested by Hitler in his Mein \\"Il\'tl "I:\onw" N{I.\l:I'o Ilhllll\'t.'ll .\1\ thlm' own d\l\- ",unlll lift'. It.... indh'iduuls? While Jewi"h religious bodies have spoken in favor of equality ". experiences under Christian rule in many Kampf. ~ The American Nazi Party, for example, ;\\'\)II's \111\l\l\lltl, for nIl. Vors~)ltn wa" saying that there were no actions comparable '.' parts of the world, wJWe eager to accept the "'IIl' Stuut' '~lutU~ to Ole netion of the church groups. Implicitly he was also saying principle of separati6'h of church and state. recently paraded with banners stating that 01\ tll\' l..\thl'I' lmnd, fndl\)l;' the 1'1'\\8\\1..'1.:1 ,If thM Jews ClUlnot claim a plnce as one of "the three great religions An examination of many decisions of our the slaughter of six million Jews in Germany was a myth; that it did not take place; that dir,ld \l1i\1'l:IlI\l:\\ \',mb\"t. l.ltlt\\"-~I\ th\lm~wh'<l$. :\I\~i of Amerk~\" but choo;;e "out" on the issue of Negro equality.