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NEW YORK: — Tii3 prcsidoat of tho National Conference of Christiana and Jorra, hen responded to new cnti-Catholic attcefco on the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church by mobilizing the 76 NCCJ offices nationwide and national level religious organizations to condemn and counteract the distribution of tho literature by the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation. Jacqueline G. Wexler, preoident of the NCCJ, termed the eight-page pamphlet entitled "The Pope's Secrets," now being distributed by the Alma, Arkansas-based foundation, "libeloua and irrational attacks on the Roman Catholic Church." "None of the charges in this scurrilous material could .withstand the most minimal testaments of history or scholarship." Mrs. Wexler said. . She expressed concern that "as nonsens-
ical as the charges are, tho cctivitioo of this Alamo Foundation may otir anti-Catholic sentiments otill present in some parts of American Gociety." 'The hate-literature has appeared in 20 states and that is too widespread to ignore," she said.
Rose Blumkin was awarded an honorary doctorate in commercial science by New York University at commencement exercises on May 24. She also received an honorary doctor of law degree from Croighton University on May 19.
Av Bondarin, eixcutiva dlu.t'j.. of tl.j Dc_"'!c3'Botii-i2n, cosvention speakers National Federation of Tempb Brother- will bs Dr. Harry M. Offenbccb, chairman hoods (NFTB) will deliver ths Pud: y nfcLt of Is'FTB's Adult Education Committee, sermon and bs the discussing "Endsnga'cd Spcsie3-American keynote speaker at • ' Male-Jewish;" end David Urea, past preatha NFTB Midwest idsnt of NFTB end past chancellor of the Region Convention , Jewish Chcutcuqua Society (JCS), addresson June 15-17 at ing "Reaching for 'Excellence Through the tha Granada Roy- ' Jewish Chautauqua Society." ale Hometel in • Business of the region, including election Omaha. •. of officers, will occur under the direction of Bondarin will George Mataocnrin, NFTB MidwestTlegion discuss "The New president. . Anti-Semitism" in Tho convention, under tho thoma "Jewish his Friday night Survival Through Brotherhood Commitcormon and will bement," is mado possible through tho efforts gin tho Saturday Av Eoassin of Hal Sslnor, local coordinating chairman conaion by addressing "Brotherhood and the Search for'Excellence,"'the thomo of No- and preoident of Temple Israel vembor'o Biennial Convention in Boston. Brotherhood. He will bad a question and encr/er ceosion . NFTB ia compriesd of 500 Temple Brotherhoods'with over 70,000 members in the about Brotherhood following his npsach. Boadarin, an Omaha native, haa been United Statoo, Canada, and abroad. It is afwith NFTB for 20 yeara. He io a graduate filiated with the Union of American Hebrew of tho University of Nobmokaand 'was pro- Congregations, parent body of Reform gram director of Radio and Television Sta- Judaism. tin KFOR in Lincoln for nino years. As a JCS endows coureoa on'Judaiom at unimember of South Strcst Temple in Lincoln, versities throughout tho United State3 and Bondarin was Men's Club preaidont, Tem- Canada, assigns rabbinic lecturers to cample treaouror, youth group advteor, and re- puses, donates books of Judaica to libraries, ligious cchool teacher. Ho io now a momber distributes a huge film collection, and eponof Tcmplo Beth El in Great Neck, NY, sors Inotituteo for Christian Clergy in its whsra he reaidsa. ' goal of improved interfaith relations.
RABAT (JTA) — Several Kneaoet members who attended the firot national con- ference of Moroccan Jewish communities here expressed cautious optimism that the event could horold a new Middlo East peace initiative encouraged by King Hassan Of Morocco. The conference drew some 500 participants and observers representing the Moroccan Jewish community and Jewish communities in the United States, France and other countries. They included a 35member Israeli delegation, of which 11 are members of the Knesset representing both the'Labor Party and the Likud-led coalition government.
Tho Israelis woro invited with the express permission of Hassan, the firot tuns a group of Israeli parliamentarians have visited an Arab League member-otate. According to Meir Shitrcot of Likud, the most important result of tho conference could be to pave the way for a now peace initiative. It would bo welcomed by Israel if it came from Morocco, he said, adding that King Hassan's prestige will bs enhanced hi the U.S. and among Jewish communities all over the world for having the conference in his capital. Yossi Sand, of the Labor Alignment said he was convinced that the Moroccan King (continued on page 3) o
Mrs. Blumkin was featured in an extensive article May 23 in The Wall Street Journal.
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KIAMESHA LAKE, H Y., (JTA) — Conservative rabbis voted ot the 84th annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly <RA) to reject for a second year in a row tho application of Reform-ordained Rabbi Beverly Mogidson to become America's firot woman Conservative rabbi by convention vote, but changed circumstances in the Conservative movement has made that issua ccademic and no future RA convention is ever likely to vote on that issue again. Despite the backing of the RA membership committee and that of many Conservative leaders, Magidson, of- Clifton Park, N.J., received 230 votes in favor to 99 votes against her application, 22 votes short of the required 76 percent of the convention majority needed to affirm her application. At laat year's RA convention she failed in her bid by fewer votes. The application of another Relorm-ordaihed woman rqbbi, Jan Kaufman of Washington; D.C. had been approved by the -appropriate RA committees for conoideratidri for convention action. But her appli-
cation was tabled. Both she and Magidson were ordained in 1979 by the Hebrew Union College, the Reform seminary branch in New Yorlr City. Ordination into the Conservative rabbinate is by two means: attendance at the movement's Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) rabbinical school which leads to ordination for successful applicants; or admission by a 75 percent vote of rabbis present and voting at an RA convention. A chronic shortage of rabbis for Conservative pulpits has led the RA in post years to accept more than 500 applicants for RA membprship — and Conservative rabbinical' status — notably from Reform and Reconstructionist seminaries. But until Magidson made her unsuccessful bid for RA membership at the 1983 RA convention in Dallas, all of the candidates voted on for RA membership and status as Conservative rabbis had been men. . ' ' ; The recent vote reflected, in port, the ob(continued on page 3)
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Gail Kohll, (lofi), woo the recipient of Temple Israel-Sicicrhaod'o YAB V LEV, Hand and Heart Award, which wao presented at the recent Sisterhood program meeting by Noni Seiner, Siaterhoad president. Thio award is presented' In reedsmition of outotanding cervica to Temple Israel, Temple Israel Sinterhood, and the Community; thio ia the firot presentation oinco 1670. '.
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