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L NEW YORK, (JTA) - conversion) based on .their' F/Harold M. Jacobs, preckimt false claim to religious Tof the Union of Orthodox legitimacy through equal F. Jewish Congregstlons of membership with Orthodox f America, announced that the groups in such agencies as the fUOJCA board of directors Synagogue Council of »adopted a resolution America, the Union of I suspending the Union's. Orthodox Jewish : participation in the Congregationa «t America ^Synagogue Council of • America. The resolution r stated: "Whereas the Reform and ^ ConservaHve movements ^ have launched a campaign [ against amending the Law of i Return in Israel to require ; 'Giyur K'Halacha" (halachk
therefore resolves to suspend its participstioD In the Synagogue Council of America forthwith; in order to uiderscore the fact that the Torah community has never granted religious legitimacy to deviatk>nist movements. The issue of membership in
that Council shall be reviewed al the forth-coming UOJCA national bi-ennial convention in November, lt74." At the request of the board Jacobs further announced that he was appointing a committee to review the Union's membership status in
the Synagogue Council of America and to report to the plenary session of the UOJCA's national convention in November. This action stems from the Union's position which denies religious legitimacy and authority to the Reform and
Conservative movements here and in Israel. It comes in response to the recent attacks by the Reform and Conservative movements upon the National Religious Party in Israel which supports the halachic position on the Law of Return and conversions.
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Omaha — Several hundred members of Beth El Synagogue visited the new Jevrish Community Center building last Sunday, completlng the three weeks of lours asranged for synagogue members. Synagogue memben who were unablie to participate in previous tours, as well as all other biterested members of tbecommunity, are invited to participate in the tours of the building Sunday, February 17, from 1 to 3 p.m. Special arrangemeflU lUIVe baan nutde for Ihoae who have been unable to visit the building because of transportation problems. A free bus will stop at the following pick-up points this Suntey: U;15 p.m. 3Mh and Dodge (downtown JCC); U:4S p.m. SOth and Underwood; 1 p^. Beth Israel Parking Lot; 1:1S p.m. Temple Israel Parking Lot. The bus will return passengers to the ume pickup points following the tours. Members of the Jewish Community Center SUff will conduct the guided tours. Members of the JCC Senior Otizens club are urged to take advantage of the free bus transportation and to visit the M facility this
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^COUNCIL BLUFFS; LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Nab., Fri., Fobr. 15.1974
Disengagement Continues JERUSALEM, (JTA) Gtn. Ensk) Slilasviu, UNEF commander, met last weekend with Israeli and Egyptian chiefs of staff to discuss final preparations for the fourth and next to the last phase of the disengagement of forces on the Suez Canal front. According to the time-table of the disengagement agreement, Israeli troops will have evacuated the entire west bank of the canal at the
end of this fourth phase, with the last Israeli soldier crossing to the east bank of the waterway on Feb. 21. This Mill mark the end of the 28day period, which began with the first Israeli troop pullback on Jan. 2S. The remaining 12 days, until the completion of the disengagement on March S, are to be used for the redeployment of Israeli forces along the new defense lines east of the UNEF buffer zone, some 20 kilometers east
of the canal. During this fifth and last phase of the disengagement, Israeli forces are to maintain a bridgehead on the east bank of (he canal until the final pullback. The thinning out of Egypt's Second and Third Armies on the east bank of the canal to a token force of 7000 men, 30 tanks and 36 medium range artillery pieces, will also have to be completed by then.
GoMaASng TEL AVIV (JTA) Premier Golda Meir was ordered by her doctors to remain at home due to an inflammation of the eyelids. As a result, she was unable to attend the regular weekly Cabinet meeting and may be unable to participate in meetings with West Berlin Mayor Klaus Scheuti who arrived this week for a fiveMrs. Haward Kaslew sad daughter Joaaaa admire Ifce theater day visit as the guest of the la Uie New Jewish Community Center. The Kastow family is Foreign Ministry. Mrs. Meir recently looking forward to enjoying all the facilities sad programs of recovered from a case of the center that membership will provide. shingles, a virus infection affecting the nervous system.
Jew Named to Nixon's Staff
* Daakd KaUmaa, Chairman of the New Ceater Preject. addrtased a graap of Beth El members [. prior ta laadhig a Imur •( the New Ccalar.
WASHINGTON (JTA) Ken W. Clawson, formerly a newswriter in Ohio, Michigan and for the Washington Post, has been promoted by President Nixon from deputy director of communications for the Executive branch to communications director to the President. In this capacity, Clawson, 37, who is Jewish, now manages the office formerly headed by Herbert G. Klein, who left It last summer to become broadcasting administrator. Klein, who is not Jewish, arranged the meeting at the White House in 1972 of American Jewish newspaper sditon.
TEL AVIV - Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the mlliUnt JewUh Defense League, looks up from his Bible Inside his Jeep as he begbis a hunger strike outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to protest the seinre of his American passport, 17 months ago, by Israeli authorities. He told newsmen he was also protesting what he called "American-Israeli collaboration against freedom of speech." Israeli authorities confiscated his passport In Sept., 1(72. alter he was charged with attempthig to smuggle srms out of the conntry, reportedly for attacks on Arab guerrillas hi Em'ope. "I will hunger strike until I get my passport back," be was quoted as saybig. "Give me my passport or gWc me death."