Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1979 — Page 3

— Jerusalem Post photo DESERTED? — Under heavy pressure to resign over the increasing economic difficulties, Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich is shown all alone at the section of seats in the Knesset assigned to Cabinet members. Britain For Return Of Each Jerusalem

LONDON — British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington added insult to injury when in reply to a letter protesting the recent stand of the European Economic Community on Israel and the occupied territories, he not only stood his ground but even asked British Jews to importune Prime Minister Menachem Begin to change current Israeli policy. LORD CARRINGTON was responding to a letter from Eric Moonman, chairman of Britain’s Zionist Federation, who complained about the an-ti-Israel tenor of the recent decision by the Foreign Ministers of EEC. Carrington responded that the EEC declaration does not speak of withdrawal from “all occupied territories” but of the need for Israel to “end its territonal occupation...” He then added his own gratuitous view on Jerusalem. Stating that the EEC declaration does hot “specifically mention East Jerusalem”, the Foreign Secretary added: “However, I wish to leave you in no doubt of the Government’s view that the provisions of (UN) Resolution 242 for Israeli withdrawal apply to East Jerusalem just as to the other occupied territories; we have never recognized the validity of Israeli actions which purported to change the status of the city.” HE THEN WENT ON to

state Britain’s objections to new settlements in the West Bank. But the coup de grace was when he asserted: “I am bound to say that while Israel’s policies on these issues remain unchanged, the prospects of being able to build on the Israel-Egypt treaty towards a comprehensive settlement will be much impaired. The Government have made clear their views on -these points to Mr. Begin. I hope that you and your colleagues will feel able to do so as well.” , , HE DESCRIBED the letter as “both disagreeable and disturbing”, and called on the Jewish community and all friends of Israel to urgently seek clarification and reassurances from tiie Foreign Secretary on the nature and implications of his rebuke to Israel. Moonman is a former Member of Parliament.

Hot Elections In Great Britain

LONDON - Unlike elections for officers of national organizations in America, there are a number of hot contests scheduled for the election of officers to the Board of Deputies of British Jewry. Six worthies are candidates for the two senior vice presidencies, and two are competing for the treasurer’s job.

Furious Vance To Meet Dayan WASHINGTON - The leak to the press that Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance was furious at Israel’s opposition to the replacement of the UN peacekeeping force with a U.S.-Soviet agreed UN observer force has not seemed to have softened Israel’s stand. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan was due in the United States for discussions aimed at solving the impasse, but meanwhile UN troops were dismantling installations and departing from the area of the Sinai where forces of Israel and Egypt face each other. Vance let it be known that Israel was aware of the U.S.Russian agreement and had not raised any previous objections. Israel was not eager to bring Russia back into the Mideast picture and had unpleasant memories of the last time a UN observer force was stationed in the Sinai and was hastily withdrawn when Egypt in May of 1967 found U. Thant willing to remove them, leading to the Six Day War.

BegirTs Condition Shows Improvement JERUSALEM - Continued improvement in the condition of Prime Minister Begin raised hopes that he would soon be returning home and then later to active work. He has been meeting with his associates at the Hadassah Hospital where a small brain clot was responding to treatment and his doctors were watching closely his partial loss of vision.

Bank Has Minyans, Mezuzzahs On Doors NEW YORK - The Republican National Bank of New York conducts a daily minyan for its employees for mincha services at 444 Fifth Ave. at 40th St. and each of the bank’s 12 main doors bears a mezuzzah. In addition, in order to meet the prohibition against inter est, the bank has on file a shtar heter iska, which condones the loaning of money in accordance with the stricture on usury in the Torah.

Outreach Program Appoints Officers By JEAN HERSCHAFT NEW YORK (P—O) — David Belin, of Des Moines, IA, has been appointed chairman of UAHC’s new Outreach Committee, designed to bring into Judaism’s fold the “unchurched,” as outlined by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, last December. Belin is a prominent attorney who served as counsel to the Warren Commission, a UAHC spokesman told The P—O. BELIN HEADS a committee of 20 members. A1 Vorspan, a top Reform executive is one. Mrs. Richard M. Stern, Administrator Classes for Perspective Converts To Judaism of UAHC is another. Rabbi Sanford Seltzer of Boston, a Reform executive, was named director of the project. Vorspan told me that there have been about three meetings to date. “We are moving very carefully and with prudence to prepare for the program,” he said. Both Schindler and Seltzer were unavailable for comment. MRS. STERN, a full-time volunteer worker for the past 17 years with UAHC, expressed “much enthusiasm” over the Outreach program in an interview. The largest classes in conversion were the years from 1967 to 1970 when enrollment peaked at about 300, she recalled. The ratio of 60-40 female to male persists approximately with 80% of those seeking Judaism doing so in preparation to marriage to a Jew, Mrs. Adler noted. She expects that Outreach will in time, perhaps, alter and enlarge the program profile. Instruction consists of nine sessions of 2V2 hours each with ten classes offered throughout the year. An ordained rabbi or a student rabbi in his/her senior year conducts the classes. A fee of $75 to the prospective convert also includes the fiance or friend, Mrs. Adler said. THE INSTRUCTION includes “some prayer-book” Hebrew, in addition to the standard history and holidays, as well as defining of Judaism with relation to other religions, she said. Only one inquiry, thus far, has surfaced as a result of the publicity given to Rabbi Schindler’s pronouncement of Reform’s “Outreach” program, Mrs. Adler revealed. “It was from a man. And he requested more details.” MEANWHILE, the emphasis initially, is “prudent, careful preparation of plans and materials,” as Albert Vorspan said. Definitive plans are expected by December at the biennial convention of the UAHC in Toronto.

MORE, NOT LESS DISSENT IS URGED BY ISRAELIS

JERUSALEM - The inevitable subject of dissent found most of the Israelis who spoke on the subject at the 15th annual American-Israel Dialogue of the American Jewish Congress expressing the view that American Jews aren’t dissenting enough from Israeli policies. This was reported in The Jerusalem Post by Moshe Kohn. THE COMMENT was evoked over the letter to Prime Minister Menachem Begin by 59 prominent American Jews objecting to establishment of the settlement at Elon Moreh. “Most of the American participants who spoke up on this

(issue) in the Dialogue, most notably Howard Squadron himself, pleaded with the Israelis to understand why the American Jewish organizational establishment opposes such actions,” Kohn wrote. MANY OF the Israeli participants, according to Kohn, complained about what they saw as the nature of most of the relationship between American Jewry and Israel, in which the former contribute money without concerning themselves enough about how the money is spent here, and in return use Israel for their “spiritual-ego trips”.

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