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Friday, August 16, 1985
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Unity. It was built by reli-
gious and secular Jews alike.
Israel is supported by Or-
thodox, Conservative, Re-
form, and Reconstructionist
alike. Israel is the great
symbol that the covenant of
the Jewish people still lives.
To separate now is like liv-
ing through the Exodus and
going on with business as
usual.
A community guilty of
such ingratitude and
spiritual hard-heartedness
can only fail religiously. Is-
rael's redemptive signifi-
cance should be translated
into common holidays and
celebrations, unifying prac-
tices — and concrete efforts
to bridge religious gaps be-
tween all the groups.
organizations. The Syna-
gogue Council of American
(SCA) brings together the
three denominations. To pre-
vent halachic controversy
due to participation in SCA,
each movement was given a
veto. To avoid straining the
weak fabric of the SCA, 'di-
visive' theological issues
have been avoided.
Moreover, delegates sit not
as individuals but as repre-
sentatives of their move-
ments, which restricts or
prevents growing toward
each other. Most local Boards
of Rabbis follow this same
policy.
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American Jewry must es-
tablish a systematic religious
dialogue among the Jewish
denominations on the scale
of the Jewish-Christian
dialogue of the past fifty
years.
Over the decades, the
Jewish community has fi-
nanced dialogue programs of
the Anti-Defamation League,
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, the American Jewish
Congress, the Synagogue
Council of America, and the
Joint National Conference of
Christians and Jews to
ensure that Jews and Chris-
tians would overcome the
hostilities of the past. Many
have criticized the duplica-
tion, but the fact is that an
extraordinary success was
made possible by this sig-
nificant investment of re-
sources.
A legacy of eighteen
hundred years of hatred —
and even murder — has been
broadly overcome by people
inspired by dialogue, reliious
sharing and theologizing, as
well as by personal and so-
cial contacts. There are
Evangelical Christians now
challenging the anti-
Semitism of the New Testa-
ment. Devout Catholics and
Protestants have reformu-
lated their own traditions to
eliminate stereotyping and
hatred and to advocate
Jewish causes such as Israel
and Soviet Jewry. Eminent
Jewish thinkers have formu-
lated the most positive
Jewish models of Chris-
tianity ever developed in all
the days of their separate
existence.
When it comes to Jewish-
Jewish dialogue, however,
there has been a shortage of
Nationally, the
Federations are
giving millions for
Jewish-Christian
dialogue but only
pennies for Jewish
dialogue.
At the present time, the
National Jewish Resource
Center offers the only serious
organizational commitment
to intra-Jewish ecumenism.
NJRC's CHEVRA project for
rabbis is committed to Klal
Yisrael and provides a forum
for ongoing dialogue. Due to
limited budget, only 120
rabbis in six cities are cur-
rently involved. That
number is not yet large
enough to change the out-
come of policies or to reverse
the present tendency to
polarization. NJRC has
sought funding to increase
the scope of CHEVRA but
has found little receptivity to
its requests.
Nationally, the Federa-
tions are giving millions for
Jewish-Christian dialogue
but only pennies for Jewish-
Jewish dialogue. The level of
consciousness regarding the
urgency of the issue is too
low. The truth of the matter
is, if the growing divisive-
ness is not stopped, it will
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