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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 23, 1981
Jewish Groups Found to Influence Young Leaders
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The values and beliefs of
major American Jewish or-
ganizations have assumed
the status of a Jewish "civil
religion" to which young
Jewish communal leaders
feel a strong personal com-
mitment, according to re-
sults of a study by a Bran-
deis University scholar.
The findings of the study
by Jonathan Woocher, as-
sistant professor of Jewish
communal service at Bran-
deis, are summariezed in
the new 1981 edition of the
American Jewish Year
Book. The summary
suggested that active par-
ticipation in Jewish organi-
zations may enhance the
overall attachment of the
participants to Judaism and
Jewish values.
Woocher contended that
the "civil Jewish faith" has
eight key tenets. These are
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security and welfare of all
Jews; the centrality of Is-
rael as a symbol of this
unity and the mutual re-
sponsibility of each Jew and
of the Jewish community
collectively for the security
and welfare of all Jews; the
centrality of Israel as a
symbol of this unity and
mutual responsibility; and
enduring value of the
Jewish tradition and the
importance of its perpetua-
tion.
Also, the persisitence
of threats — both internal
and external — to the
survival of the Jewish
people and tradition;
"Tzedaka," understood
both as philosophy and
more broadly as action
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fare, as a primary man-
date of the Jewish value
system; the virtue of ac-
tive participation in the
broader society and the
compatibility of such
participation with "good
Jewishness"; and theo-
logical pluralism.
Woocher reported other
findings were that an
"overwhelming number" of
the young leaders felt a lin-
kage between "their own
personal fulfillment" and
the "Jewishness" of their
own patterns of living. He
found that a large majority
view "the Jewish contribu-
tion" to humanity as "irrep-
laceable."
He also found there was a
relationship between "af-
firmation of the tenents of
civil Judaism" among the
young leaders and other
Jewish "orientations and
behaviors" — such as ritual
practices, degree of Jewish
knowledge and attitudes
toward traditional Jewish
norms.
Woocher said the young
leaders showed considera-
ble "Jewishness" in areas
which are not part of the -
"meaning system" of the
Jewish "civil faith." He
mentioned, as one example,
a finding that the survey
participants observed sev-
eral Jewish rituals more
than their families did
when the young leaders
were children.
In a summary of his
findings, he reported that
they conformed the "sus-
picion" that "civil
Judaism," though often
"articulated as a mean-
ingful system in its own
right, cannot be entirely
divorced" from "other
elements of Jewish faith
and experience." He also
found that "communal
involvement is far less an
alternative to personal
religious behavior" than
it is "a complement."
Woocher said that the
data did not permit the con-
clusion that "civil Judaism"
is "more a motivator or
rationalizer" of such religi-
ous behavior commitment
— he suggested it was prob-
ably both —"but it is clearly
not an ideology of Jewish af-
firmation unrelated to other
forms of Jewish self-
expression."
Rep. Voices Concern With Arab
Investments in the United States
NEW YORK — Concern
with Arab investments in
the United States and their
effect on U.S. foreign policy
and U.S.-Israel relations
surfaced last week as the
Kuwait Petroleum Corp.,
an arm of that nation's oil
ministry, announced aquis-
ition of the Santa Fe Inter-
national Corp. of Alhambra,
Calif.
The takeover of the
California oil-drilling and
exploration firm was valued
at $2.5 billion.
Rep. Benjamin S. Rosent-
hal ID-N.Y.1 has asked
Treasury Secretary Donald
Regan to delay the deal so
that its impact on the Un-
ited States can be investi-
gated. Rosenthal scheduled
hearings on the deal this
week in the House Sub-
committee on Commerce,
Consumer and Monetary
Affairs, of which he is the
chairman.
Some members of Con-
gress feel that OPEC na-
tions might threaten to
withdraw their invest-
ments suddenly or at-
tempt to use them as
leverage to influence
American policy toward
Israel. They suggest that
such investments might
be used to press the Un-
ited States to slow its ef-
forts to become less de-
pendant on oil imports.
The Santa Fe deal, the
largest known investment
yet by an OPEC member,
came only weeks after Ro-
senthal's subcommittee
completed hearings at
which estimates of OPEC's
American investment
ranged as high as $200 bill-
ion.
The $200 billion estimate
was made by David T. Miz-
rahi, editor of Mideast Re-
port. Mizrahi based his fi-
gure on conversations he
had had with sources in the
Middle East. It is almost
triple the estimate made
by U.S. Treasury Depart-
ment officials, which has
been criticized by the sub-
committee as being based
on inadequate data.
Although Kuwait is
thought to have less money
in the- United States than
Saudi Arabia does — $55
billion, compared with
Saudi Arabia's $100 billion,
according to Mizrahi —.it
has long had a reputation as
the oil-producing nation
most likely to break new in-
vestment ground.
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some attractive deals in
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road outside Marbella.
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Spain have been selective so
far. According to Prince
Fand, the scattered invest-
ments are an attempt to
avoid generating a backlash
against their presence. The
Arabs were evicted from
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