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Jewish Unity Is Focus
Of New CLAL Division

LARRY YUDELSON

Special to The Jewish News

F

ifteen months after
his articles "Will There
Be One Jewish People
in the Year 2000" appeared in
Jewish papers across the
country, Rabbi Irving Green-
berg announced Am Echad, a
new division of his Center for
Learning and Leadership
(CLAL) which will subsume
old and new programs dealing
with issue of Jewish unity.
At a Manhattan press con-
ference last week, CLAL also
announced a $1 million
challenge grant from Mr. and
Mrs. Aaron Ziegelman.
Looking back to the pub-
lication of his articles, which
recently won the Council of
Jewish Federations Smolar
award for Jewish journalism,
Greenberg pointed out good
news and bad news regarding
the thesis of his article.
The article warned that dif-
fering religious criteria of
"who is a Jew" among the dif-
ferent denominations would
result in a "demographic time
bomb. He said that sociol-
ogists had largely confirmed
that by the year 2000 there
will be between 3 and 400,000
children of Jewish fathers
considered Jewish by the
Reform decision on patrilineal
descent, not recognized as
Jewish by the Conservative
or Orthodox, and about the
same number of converts —
most under Reform auspices
— not recognized by more
traditional Jews.
Additionally, remmarriages
without a Jewish divorce, or
get, ending the first — con-
sidered adultery by Jewish
law — will produce about
100,000 children by the end of
the century. These children
are mamzerim, illegitimate,
and while Jewish, are not per-
mitted by Jewish law to
marry non-mamzerim.
The good news, said Green-
berg, is that the split is like-
ly to take an additional
generation — the year 2050,
not 2000.
But the bad news is that
the political dynamic leading
to the split is happening
faster. The past year saw a
heightened controversy in
Israel over "Who is a Jew,"
the nadir being the stamping
of Reform convert Shoshana
Cardin's Israeli i.d. card with
the word "convert."
In America, the breakup of
the JWB chaplaincy commis-
sion last spring illustrated
the forces pulling the Jewish
community apart.
Greenberg believes that
dialogue between the denom-
inations, on the model of
Christian-Jewish dialogue,
can prevent future divisive-
ness.
"People don't remember
what Jewish-Christian rela-

tions were 50 years ago.
Judaism was considered a
superseded religion, he said.
But from a millenia-old
Christian denial of Judaism
more total than Orthodox
denial of Reform validity, said
Greenberg, Christianity has
moved to an acceptance of
Judaism. Given time — and
money — Greenberg is op-
timistic on the effect of
JewishJewish dialogue.
Am Echad will continue
and expand on CLAL's
dialogue efforts from the past
year, such as the Criticial
Issues Conference, which
brought together the presi-
dents of each of the semi-
naries, and community dia-
logues of rabbis from each of
the denominations — pro-
grams that Greenberg com-
pared to the "tolerance trios,"
teams of Jewish, Catholic,

The bad news is
that the political
dynamic leading
to the split is
happening faster.
The past year saw
a heightened
controversy.

and Protestant clergymen
that toured the country in the
1930's promoting interfaith
brotherhood.
On a less public level, the
Chevra (fellowship) programs,
involving private meetings
between rabbis for study and
discussion, have been organ-
ized in several cities. In the
student Chevra program in
New York, rabbinic students
from each of the denomina-
tions meet their counterparts
and gain an understanding
and respedt for the other
movements.
Two new CLAL programs
which will fall under the Am
Echad rubric are in fact more
ambitious than the quest for
one Jewish people — and far
trickier propositions. One is a
program of "Advanced Theo-
logical/Halakhic Dialogue,"
which would bring top schol-
ars together to explore unify-
ing approaches to divisive
issues. These discussions,
said Greenberg, will probably
remain "off the record" for
years.
CLAL will also inaugurate
a "Modern Orthdox Forum,"
designed to strengthen
modern Orthodoxy. An initial
planning meeting of several
prominent rabbis is scheduled
for this week. Greenberg's
long-term proposal looks
ahead to cultivating Thlmudic
and Halakhic scholars who
identify with the principle of
modern Orthodoxy — Zion-
ism, openess towards modern
culture, a respect for the nen-
Orthdox Jewish community
— who would eliminate the