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Two Sides Soon Split Jewish Laws On Transplants, Abortion, Etc., Challenged

WASHINGTON. D. C. - The two sides on such questions as abortion, organ transplants, euthanasia, suicide and the definition of death were quickly drawn as the Orthodox and Conservative participants in a daylong conference were challenged by a Reform rabbi and two professors of philosophy. For nine hours an unexpectedly large audience heard rabbis David J. Bleich. of Yeshiva University, Seymour Siegel of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Prof. Fred Rosner, Queens Hospital Center, challenged as employing casuistry and an over-reliance on

legalism outmoded by the passage of time and social change. Their challengers were Rabbi Roland I. Gittelsohn, Boston, former president of the Reform rabbinate and Professors Thelma Z. Lavine and Samuel Gorvitz, of George Washington University and the University of Maryland respectively. ALBERT FRIEDMAN reported the conference in The Jewish Week here. He described Rabbi Bleich’s presentation as dazzling and tightly-organized and cogently argued. “Bleich ranged”, he

Want Heart Buried With Its Donor

TEL AVIV — Death of the heart transplant patient has not ended the controversy over whether Judaism permits transplants, but this second attempt to save the life of a heart patient has at least robbed the problem of immediacy. 21-year-old Abdullam Azzam, an Obituaries Rabbi Goodblatt Dies In Phila. PHILADELPHIA - Rabbi Morris S. Goodblatt, spiritual leader of Beth Am Israel Congregation, died here at the age of 77. He had been president of the Philadelphia Board of Rabbis. Dr. Harold Weinberg NEW YORK — Dr. Harold M. Weinberg. a vice-president ofHIAS, and former president of the Flatbush Jewish Center who played leading roles with numerous Jewish organizations including the United Jewish Appeal, died here at the age of 89. Although he founded the American Tack and Hardware Co., in 1937, as a young doctor he aided povertystricken Indians in Oklahoma after earning his medical degree at Loyola University. Mrs. Joseph Mazur NEW YORK — Almost every national Jewish organization and institution took space in the New York Times to pay tribute with a death notice to Mrs. Ceil Mazer, wife of Joseph Mazer, who died last week. Whether the UJA or Brandeis University or the Yeshiva University, or the Hebrew University or Ben Gurion University of the Negev, eloquent tribute was paid to the wife of the board chairman of the Hudson Paper & Pulp Co. Max Helvarg FORT SMITH, Ark. - Max Helvarg. who retired two years ago as a top executive in the Israel Bond Organization, and previously had served with the United Jewish Appeal, died here at the age of 68. He served with the U.S. Army in World War II, following w'hich he became the J.D.C.’s first director in Berlin. I. Kaufman BROOKLYN — I. Kaufman, the byline which appeared regularly in the Brooklyn Eagle were he was the leading reporter, died at the age of 85. He was author of a twovolume work, "American Jews in World War II’’.

Arab young man from Tiaba who got the heart of a Jewish man, died when his body rejected the new heart. Rabbi Raphael Solovechick demanded that the heart be removed from the transplant recipient and be buried in the grave of the Jewish donor.

Redgrave Defended By Jewish Official PALM BEACH. Fla. <P-0> In answer to protests over Vanessa Redgraves love affair with the PLO, Danny Lamp, manager ol the Century Twin Cinema here said the movie, “Julia”, in which she stars, will be show n here. ‘ I'm not going to be part of any boycott,” he said. Elsie Leviton, domestic affairs chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Council, discounted tlie complaints Lamp had received. ”A lot ol people,” she said, “have nothing else to do." She added that she felt Ms. Redgrave's alleged statements have not been confirmed and that any actions taken concerning the movie were a “tempest in a teapot”

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wrote, • inrough a spectrum of current issues in the light of rabbinic thought: the obligations of the husband in marital sexuality; birth control (only the pill can be considered to accord with rabbinic strictures regarding the ‘waste’ of male seed; other devices are not countenanced), the obligation of Jews to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ — and much else.” POINTING OUT that Judaism is not a libertarian philosophy, he said that it is a religion of law, and argued that Jewish law strictly forbids abortion except when pregnancy threatens the life of the expectant mother. Prof. Lavine compared Jewish law as expostulated by Bleich as akin to legal decisions rendered by judges based on previous decisions rendered by judges in the past. “They are not absolute,” she said, “they are human responses to current situations of the state of knowledge at the time.” “Laws must change,” she said, “as human sensibility changes.” Rabbi Gittelsohn spoke of the anguish of parents of Tay-Sachs-afflicted children and those suffering from terminal illness. He said the injunction to “preserve life” of an impaired fetus or that of a cancer-ridden patient was contrary to the humane spirit of true religious feeling. When asked from the floor how he could advocate birth control at a time when the Jewish problem is survival, he responded, “I advocate zero population growth for all except the Jews.” PROF. ISAAC FRANCK of the University of Maryland philosophy department was chairman. Fredman said that differences between the Orthodox position of Bleich and the Conservative one of Siegel were characterized by both as “surprisingly few”.

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NAME THE ORGANIZATIONS—Probably the largest coalition of national Jewish organizations on any one project is made visual by the logos of the organization above. The project which evoked the unusual cooperation is NBC’s 9-hour TV Holocaust spectacle which will be aired April 16-19 and was reviewed last week in The P—O. The unusual display of cooperation produced a program kit to help local Jewish organizations prepare programs and projects as a tie-in with the broadcast. The P—O will give a free one-year subscription to the first three persons correctly identifying the logos. The fifteenth logo is that of the United Jewish Appeal which only spells out its name.

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Most Couples He Marries Already Lived Together

DENVER — Most of the couples he marries have lived together. Rabbi William Cohen told The Interrnountain Jewish News here. “One of the questions I always ask a couple is if they have been living together”, the rabbi of Temple Michah here, responded. “I feel, in general, that is probably a healthy thing — perhaps because it is not my son or daughter. They get a chance to know each other in a way that is much closer.” RABBI COHEN, who performs some intermarriages, said he 'refuses to conduct such a marriage if the couple does not intend to make Judaism a part of their life. If the non-Jewish partner does not convert, he was asked if he would perform the marriage ceremony. “I am not concerned,” he answered, “with the halachic interpretation who is a Jew'. I think one is a Jew when he or she calls him-

self a Jew.” He said he would not perform a ceremony in concert with a nonJewish clergyman. “No,” he said, “I think it is important for the couple to decide what religion, if any, is going to part of the home.” He added that he conducts about 20 to 25 intermarriage ceremonies in a year, and turns away about half that number because they are not ready to make a commitment to Judaism and they just want a rabbi “to make mother happy”. Rabbi Cohen was asked about the trend towards more ritual in Reform. “We are finding that traditional Judaism has great warmth to it and we know that early Reform Judaism ‘threw out some of the baby with the bath water’. We are noticing a reinterest in Reform Judaism in some of the traditions that our forebearers eliminated.”

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