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Continued from Page 7
ity are troublesome and
should not be ignored. The
debate itself, however, is an
exercise in self-flagellation.
Some 30 years ago, the
eminent religious and Zionist
leader Abba Hillel Silver said
that "the slogan of Jewish
unity has been one of the
most misleading and disrup-
tive ones in American Jewish
life. Every organization, seek-
ing to maintain a 'special-
privilege' position, every
venal champion of a minority
point of view, unwilling to
submit to the judgment of the
majority, every one, who out
of assimilationist tendencies
attempts to hold down
American Jewish life to a
minimal program, has shel-
tered himself behind this slo-
gan. No people of five million
souls anywhere in the world
is 'unified' on the basic issues
which affect its life. It is not
unity which is essential but
democratic organization in
which all points of view can
find legitimate expression
and by means of which the
majority can properly receive
its authority to speak and act
for the entire community."
The adage of "two Jews
and three opinions" has been
an invariable feature of our
collective experience. In an-
cient times, we have known
periods of internal dissension
and friction precipitated
alternately by political and
military reasons as well as
religious and ideological sec-
tarianism. It took Moses 40
years to forge the fractious
tribes into a nation.
Centuries later, the He-
brew Commonwealth was
split into two kingdoms, the
northern and southern.
Internal strife resulted in
successive conquests of the
two kingdoms and a 70-year
loss of national status known
as the Babylonian Exile. In
70 C.E. our national collec-
tive existence came to a
tragic end and the long tor-
tuous exile began. It has been
said that the dissolution of
our national life was caused
by internal strife even before
it succumbed to military con-
quest. Only the hope and
yearning for national restora-
tion and redemption in the
Land of Israel forged an in-
visible bond of unity among
the various Jewish diasporas.
However, when Theodor
Herzl sought to give Jewish
Messianism a modern, po-
litical formulation, he was
roundly denounced as a False
Messiah.
Arrayed against the
Zionists - and although
poles apart in thought and
deed - were the Jewish
socialist Bund, the orthodox
Agudat Yisrael and a varied
assortment of "westernized"
assimilated Jews, who viewed
Zionism as an assault against
their "integrated" status in
the western countries in
which they lived.
Among these disparate
segments and movements,
Zionism alone has survived
as an idea and a movement
which provided the best
diagnosis for the "Jewish pr-
oblem" and the best prescrip-
tion for revival and survival.
Thus, if one accepts the pr-
emise propounded by the Is-
raeli novelist, Amos Oz, that
"Zionism is the healthiest,
the most healing, the rightest
single idea that has dawned
on the tormented Jewish
mind in the last 2,000 years,"
the truth is that Zionism has
not been sustained by a
united and unified Jewry.
Only in the turbulent and
crucial pre-State years, fol-
lowing the Holocaust, has
Zionism, at long last, gained
the consensual approval -
still short of full support - of
world Jewry. The idealized
concept of unity is likely to
remain elusive, if not unat-
tainable.
At best, the agenda for col-
lective Jewish action will
"The nation as a
whole is dearer to
all of us than all
the divisions . ."
continue to rest upon a so-
called consensus reflecting
the majority point of view.
This is equally applicable to
the ultra-religious sects,
which in spite of their
divinely-inspired pr-
otestations of infallibility,
cannot be allowed to defy the
Jewish consensus.
More than 100 years ago,
Moshe Leib Lilienblum, a
talmudic scholar, a leading
figure of the Haskalah
(Enlightenment) and a pre-
Herzlian exponent of
Zionism, wrote: "The nation
as a whole is dearer to all of
us than all the divisions over
rigid orthodoxy or liberalism
in religious observance put
together. We are all children
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
and anyone of Jewish seed,
who does not forsake his pe-
ople, is a Jew in every sense
of the word.
"Let each man follow the
dictates of his conscience, let
the Hasidim put on two sets
of tephilin and let the more
liberal recite the `Shema'
without tephilin ... We are
all holy, believers alike; we
have all been laying down
our lives for the Sanctifica-
tion of the Name."
Lilienblum's impassioned
plea is strikingly relevant to
the religious controversy rag-
ing in Israel today. There is
evidence that Israeli public
opinion will sooner or later
force the contending parties