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November 28, 1986 - Image 30

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1986-11-28

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that should have been
cepts of Jewish mutual re-
expected.
sponsibility, of Israel's cen-
"Could we expect that there
trality, of tzedakah. It in-
would be no anger in the
cludes Jewish practices in
Jewish people? Could any
which almost all of us
people so brutally terrorized
engage—the celebration of
be expected to emerge un-
Passover and Chanukah
scathed from attacks upon its
rededication."
psyche? Cold any people so
In the context of all that,
savaged and repeatedly bat-
Cardin said, debates and
tered, be expected to remain
disagreements should con-
calm, rational, normal, after
tinue but in the form of "civil,
absorbing such massive trau-
even if passionate discourse.
mas? We are human beings,
We are opposed," she said, "to_
not saints We have barely
shrill and strident discourse.
completed the body count of
Respect for different ideo-
our murdered. Forty percent
logical, religious or political
• of our people were wasted in
perspectives, we accept.
the Holocaust. How could
Demanding that one ideology
'that not affect the way we re-
or persuasion prevail to the
spond to the world and to
exclusion of others, we decry."
ourselves? We have experi-
Noting that just such ex-
enced the greatest insult that
clusionary actions are going
could possibly be experienced
on at the moment, Cardin
by any people. The insult of
said, "I fear that a significant
the enemy who says he
segment of our people can be
doesn't want our conversion,
alienated as a result of the
who tells us we have no right
animosity and hostility that
to live. Unconditional hatred."
is being generated."
All that, said Schulweis,
lb have Klal Yisrael, Cardin
would have been more than
said, Jews must remember
enough to cause anger in the
that "building Jewish com-
munity is not a zero-sum
Jewish people. But things
game, not an ego trip or a turf
didn't stop when the Holo-
game or an environment of
caust finally ended. "Forty
years after the earthquake,
winners and losers.
tremors still explode. Every
"It is," she said, "only
day, we learn more about the
through a strongly-bonded
Jewish community that we
abandonment of the Jews by
can nurture and enable our
priest and presidents and
allies. The more we learn, the
ideals to flourish now and for
more the kettle of our anger
generations to come."
boils over, spreads until it is
In his address, Schulweis,
rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom
anger not only against the
in Los Angeles and scholar-in-
Nazis but against the whole
residence for the General
of Western civilization.
Assembly, said that Jews will
"Our rage rises, our feelings
be able to get along better
of impotence, fear and
with each other if they can
betrayal, guilt and disillusion-
learn first to get along better
ment, until we strike out. The
with the world.
whole world is against us, we
For, he said, the roots of
believe and so we say let the
Jewish disunity are to be
whole world go to hell."
found in Jewish anger at the
But once we turn that
world. "What's happening to
anger against all who are out-
us? What accounts for the
side, said Schulweis, we then
acrimony, the biting rhetoric?
begin also to turn against
What has caused an uncivili-
those inside. "If we reject
ty that had led to disenfran-
Western civilization, then all
chisement of movements, de-
Jews who take part in it are
legitimation of persons, graf-
collaborators, those who have
fiti on secular and religious
dropped their loyalty to their
people. Our anger with
walls?"
It is more Schulweis said,
Western Civilization turns
than "a question of political
within. And we begin to label
advantage or intellectual
and to exclude Jew from Jew.
debate. Something in the tone
"When we read `Love Your
indicates something deep be-
Neighbor as Yourself," we say
neath the surface of our &vi-
that only applies to our fellow
Jews. And only to our fellow
sions."
What's there, he said, "is an
Jews who observe the way we
anger in us, a cumulative
do and think the way we do."
anger, a long-festering rage
Separation and exclusion
against Jewish impotence. It
lead to more separation and
is a rage that has reached the
exclusion, Schulweis said, un-
breaking-point, a rage that
til "a small people grows even
has led us to divide the world
smaller. Children do not
into two parts. And what
fraternize. The Conservatives
begins with them and us in-
have a youth group and the
variably ends in us alone, rips
Reform have a youth group
us apart until all that's left is
and the Orthodox have a
each of us as a cult of one."
youth group and all the
It is an anger, Schulweis
Jewish children do not sing or
said, "not against specific
dance or play or pray
targets, but at things in
together. It has become our
Continued on page 32
general." An anger, he said,

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