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Marc Gorelick Retail Cornputer Center Farmington Hills Birmingham 13 Mlle and Orchard Lk In Birmingham Place 644-4820 626-3240 t 12% A.P.R. Rate based on cost + tax over 54 months with no money down. Call for details. Friday, September 26, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS Capezio, Freed and Paul Wright 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