422:. They agreed that from "the religious point of view there is an unbridgeable gulf between Orthodoxy and Reform." Super said that this was the conclusion he arrived at “after a thorough examination of the Halachic situation and the Halachic principles involved.” The agreement was welcomed by the Jewish establishment in the country, with the
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and its counterpart in Cape Town, with the leadership in Cape Town rejecting a proposal for the creation of the position of Chief
Minister under which all Progressive congregations would fall. The appointee would have been Weiler, who was based in Johannesburg at Temple Israel in Hillbrow. Cape Town
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he stated: "But the real fault lies with the proponents of Reform
Judaism themselves. They have woefully failed to impress on Israelis the vitality of Reform as a spiritual force in the life of an old-new nation struggling to come to terms with itself and with the outside world." He died in 1979 in
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Super married Sally Berko, with whom he had a son, Bernard Samuel Super (1935 - 2016) in
Montreal, Canada. The couple subsequently divorced and Super married the widow, Tilly Hyams. He legally adopted Hyams' daughter, Stacia (1946 - 2015) in 1957, her biological father had died in 1947. Stacia had
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was opposed to the position taken by Super, stating that it amounted to “allowing ourselves to be read out of the community of Klal
Yisrael." In 1968, the Women's Zionist Council of SA (WIZO) published his booklet “Five Generations of Jewish Life - a Review of Jewish History since the Nineteenth
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describing it as “a very sensible and practical agreement.” However, within progressive Jewish circles it was regarded as a capitulation to
Orthodoxy. Super was only representing Johannesburg's progressive congregations in the agreement. His counterpart in Cape Town,
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wanted a looser federation where each city made its own decisions and pushed back against the notion of a Chief
Minister, arguing that it was against the democratic principles of Reform Judaism. In 1951, Cape Town quit the
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in June of that year: It is not I who says this. This thesis was propounded by a well known colleague of yours Arthur Saul Super of
Johannesburg. In an article only last week on this subject in the
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