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"While Reform Jews have been
strongly committed to the Uriited
Jewish Appeal," the resolution
said, "there is not substantial dis-
satisfaction at the lack of support
for Reform programs in Israel.
Our members will not be content
until significant changes are
made and priorities are adjusted
to reflect our concerns."
The resolution urged Reform
congregations and members in
the United States to "apprise the
local and national federation,
United Jewish Appeal and United
Israel Appeal leadership of the
importance and equity of the Re-
form Movement Grant Applica-
tion" for funding some 40 Reform
programs and institutions in Is-
rael amounting to $20 million for
the first year and approximately
$88 million over five years.
"If the Jewish Agency is not re-
sponsive, our congregations and
members will expect the UJA and
UIA to fund directly the Reform
Movement Grant Application
from funds which could otherwise
be transmitted to the Jewish
Agency."
This warning, of course, follows
the controversial decision earlier
this year by the umbrella body of
Conservative Rabbis in America
to bar from appearing at their
synagogues those Knesset mem-
bers who voted with the Orthodox
parties in favor of revising the
Law of Return.
Both of these dramatic deci-
sions underscore the heightened
degree of concern among many
American Jews over this issue.
But even if they are continuing
their ardent involvement in
Israel-related causes, there is no
doubt that these Reform and Con-
servative Jews are still deeply
upset by the fact that their rabbis
and traditions are not recognized
in Israel.
Israeli leaders, they insist,
would be making a big mistake in
belittling the degree of American
Jewish anxiety.
This is by no means a new de-
velopment. It has been a source of
displeasure for many years. But
what is relatively new is the
clearly increased amount of dis-
cussion currently being heard in
the Jewish community about the
whole subject and the apparently
deepening concern that a genuine
confrontation between Israel and
a large element of Diaspora Jewry
could erupt.Not surprisingly,
therefore, it was a major issue at
the just-concluded biennial gen-
eral assembly of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
in Los Angeles. Nearly 3,000
delegates from more than 700 Re-
form synagogues in th United
States and Canada attended the
convention. Rabbi Alexander M.
Schindler, President of the
UAHC, spoke bitterly of the
ultra-Orthodox efforts to exclude
Reform and Conservative
Judaism.
Schindler, a past chairman of
the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Organizations, is
one of Israel's great champions in
the United States. He has been on
the front lines in defending Israel
for many years.
But in his Los Angeles speech,
he showed anger in addressing
this matter of religious pluralism
in Israel.
"The Jewish world must know
this: Reform is an adjective, it is
not a noun," he said. "The noun is
Jew. And so we are Jews. And we
will not be read out of the Jewish
fold: not in Israel, not in Europe,
nor anywhere else on this God's
earth.
Schindler declared that "the
butcher . . . who stood at Au-
schwitz's gate never asked 'What
kind of Jew are you? Are you
Zionist, Bundist, Orthodox, Re-
form?' He consigned us all to the
toxic fumes of Zyclon B."
"Today, only one general after
Auschwitz, and only one month
after the tragedy on the Achille
Lauro, Orthodox zealots persist in
their efforts to establish their own
kind of selecting process — not in
Poland, but before the gates of
Jerusalem, not to sort the strong
from the weak, but Jew from
Jew . . .
"Intellectually, I suppose we
can understand this kind of nar-
rowness, this arrogant in-
tolerance as the inevitable con-
comitant of a waning influence
which the Orthodox establish-
ment must know and fear. Be-
sides, the world as a whole has
gone mad with the fundamen-
talists so why shouldn't we Jews
have our ayatolahs. ❑
El Al Lowers
Business Fare
New York (JTA) — El Al Israel
Airlines announced that it is
sharply reducing the fare on its
business-class flights.
"For just $180 each way above
regular coach fares, travellers to
Israel can enjoy El Al's new busi-
ness class," David Schneider, El
Al's general manager for North
and Central America, said in a
press conference aboard an El Al
747 Jumbo jet at JFK airport
here.
According to Schneider, up to
now the regular business class
fare of El Al was $2,814. The new
business classfare, he noted, will
be, in most cases, less than $1,000.
El Al Losses
Tel Aviv (ZINS) — El Al Israel
Airlines lost $9.7 million in the
fiscal year which ended last
March, according to a spokesman,
but would have made a profit if
the Israel government had not
banned it from making Sabbath
flights.
The airline had an operational
profit of $12.9 million, compared
to $5.1 million the previous year,
but showed a loss because of debt
payments of $33 million.
Suicide Topic
Washington (JTA) — B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization
(BBYO) has decided to focus its
program emphasis this year on
the problem of teenage suicide.