A split is developing among the Jewish communities in Germany on the basis of a series of resolutions concerning membership ## administration of the communities adopted at a recent quadri-zone meeting of representatives of various Jewish communities throughout Germany.
At a meeting hore yesterday of a group of leaders of communities in the American zone, headed by Dr. Philip S. Auerbach, Bavarian Commissioner for Persecu##, strenuous objections were raised to several of the resolutions. The Auerbach group, which represents roughly half of the communities in the U.S. zone, took issue ## a measure to bar from voting membership in Jewish communities all Jews who mar## non-Jews since the end of the war. It also opposed a resolution which would ## from office in the community the children of a mixed parentage who were not ##ed within the Jewish religious tradition, unless a rabbinical dispensation is obtained.
In the first ruling of its kind, a Munich municipal court today awarded cus##y of a child to its Jewish father who divorced his non-Jewish wife following her ##usal to raise the child in the Jewish faith. The court insisted that it is the ##her’s right to determine the faith and education of his children.
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