the status of nonimmigrant visitors on January 3, 1977, at New York, New York.  Petitioner Hilda Perwolf, wife of Kurt Perwolf and also an Austrian citizen, entered the United States on April 25, 1977.  Petitioners Perwolf overstayed their authorized visa periods, and admitted at a September 13, 1977, deportation hearing that they were deportable pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 Sec. 241(a)(2), amended by 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1251(a)(2) (1982).  Pending congressional action on a private immigration bill introduced on their behalfs, the immigration judge granted the Perwolfs a voluntary departure in lieu of deportation.  The bill did not pass, the Perwolfs failed to depart voluntarily, and the Department of Justice issued warrants of deportation against the Perwolfs.


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On March 3, 1983, theEasyBlog

Rabbi Naamah Kelman had a really busy day yesterday. As Dean of the Hebrew Union College- Hebrew Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, she hosted last night’s smicha or ordination ceremony of the latest cohort of Reform rabbis in Israel. This was a particularly momentous event for the movement in that it marks 100 rabbis ordained in Israel and brought together top Reform leaders from Israel and around the world. But Rabbi Kelman had a few extra special connections to this event. An eleventh-generation rabbi herself as well as the first woman in her family line to reach that stature, and the first woman to be ordained in Israel, she also got to watch as her daughter, Rabbi Leora Ezrachi-Vered was ordained – with honors – bringing the rabbinate