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WZO and be able to master the financial
and administrative ins and outs of these
bodies.
Spectre has no role on the governing
bodies of the Agency or WZO, nor does any
other Conservative movement functionary
in Jerusalem. In 1982, the World Council
of Synagogues, the international Conser-
vative organization, named Dr. Hertzl
Fishman as the Conservative member of
the WZO Executive in Jerusalem. Fish-
man is not a movement leader nor does he
have an official position as head of a move-
ment organization. Further, he is expected
not to "interfere" with the separate net-
works of contacts developed by each arm
of the movement with the various depart-
ments of the Agency and WZO. The con-
tacts with the heads of the Agency on the
revised "shopping list" are still coordinated
by the Seminary in New York rather than
by a central movement figure in Jerusalem.

More WZO and Jewish
Agency funds go to anti-
Zionist yeshivas and
programs each year
than to the
Conservative and
Reform movements.

The formal Conservative representation
on the Agency and WZO is also weaker
than that of the Reform movement — de-
spite the larger size of the Conservative
movement in Israel and America — and is
likely to remain so for some time to come.
While the Reform movement is represented
on two levels — by one body that is
coopted to the WZO Executive and by
another that competes in elections — the
Conservatives are represented only by two
members coopted to the Executive, one in
Jerusalem and the other in New York.
Neither has full voting rights or the right
to hold a departmental portfolio. The Con-
servative Zionist organization in America,
Mercaz, failed to obtain representation at
the 1982 Congress, and has remained much
smaller and weaker than its Reform
counterpart, Arza.
A recent attempt was made in Israel to
launch a worldwide Conservative drive to
compete in elections to the next Congress,
with the aim of boosting the movement's
clout in the WZO. This move was encour-
aged by the chairman of the WZO Ex-
ecutive, but seems to have been suppress-
ed by certain Conservative Zionist leaders
in America who did not want to upset the
existing balance of forces within the
movement.

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urged in his letter that Conservative Jews
deduct 10 per cent of their regular con-
tributions to the UJA and allocate this for
the needs of the movement in Israel.
This caused some influential people in
the UJA to sit up and take notice, and
negotiations began with the movement in
1984 on what became known as the "shop-
ping list" of programs and projects that it
wanted funded through the Agency and
WZO. These contacts were handled main-
ly by the retiring Chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, Dr. Gerson Cohen,
but did not progress very far, due among
other things to his illness. A revised pro-
posal to the Agency and WZO for pro-
grams and building projects totalling $4.6
million over several years was prepared last
year, but has not yet been submitted.
Spectre said that the Conservative grant
proposal is more modest and selective than
the Reform proposal. "We don't think it is
legitimate, for example, to ask for Agency
support for our rabbis and congregations.
That should come from the Foundation for
Masorti Judaism [the Conservative fund-
raising body for its movement in Israel]. In
addition, we can't ask the Agency or WZO
to pay for everything; seeking matching
funds seems to be a more proper approach."
Noting that the Agency seemed to be
responsive to this approach, he mentioned
the recent commitment made by the De-
partment of Rural Settlement to put up
half the funds for an education center for
the movement's new kibbutz. The other
half, he said, would come from funds raised
in the regions of United Synagogue of
America.
In addition to the kibbutz, which is
funded by the Agency, the various arms of
the Conservative movement in Israel and
North America have four shlictlim funded
by the WZO and educational programs
financed by grants from Agency/WZO
funds for Diaspora Jewish education, all of
which are for a limited period of time. The
movement in Israel will also receive
$100,000 this year from the New York of-
fice of the Joint Distribution Committee,
for social and educational programs.
The Conservative movement lags behind
the Reform movement in terms of clout in
the Agency and WZO and in its ability to
use the system to its advantage. Hirsch,
for example, is the Reform movement's
Jerusalem representative in the Agency
and WZO, and handles the movement's
contacts with these bodies — his occa-
sional differences in strategy and tactics
with his American colleagues notwith-
standing. In addition, he is a central figure
in the Israeli and world-wide Reform
movement.
There is no one in a comparable position
in the Conservative movement, who would
both represent it vis-a-vis the Agency and

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