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Article: SEMINARY LEADER URGES END TO ISRAEL'S CHIEF RABBINATE.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 17, 1997
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Byline: Gustav Niebuhr The New York Times
In a sign of growing tension between some Orthodox Jewish groups and non-Orthodox Jews, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary called Wednesday for ``dismantling'' Israel's chief rabbinate and ending donations to groups that oppose the recognition of non-Orthodox movements in Israel.
In a letter mass-mailed to Conservative rabbis and major Jewish organizations, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch also warned that a recent declaration by a small group of Orthodox rabbis could, even unintentionally, create a climate conducive to violence by one Jew against another.
Schorsch referred to a March 31 declaration ...