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Cardin: De-Politicize
Who Is A Jew' Issue

GARY ROSENBLATT

Editor

Mission impossible?
That's how many would
have described the effort of a
five-person delegation of top
North American Jewish
leaders who went to Israel
last week to try to defuse the
potentially explosive Who Is
A Jew issue.
But Shoshana Cardin of
Baltimore, who ldd the group,
offered an optimistic assess-
ment: "We had a narrow,
single focus," she said in an
interview on her return, "and
that was to remove the issue
from the political arena. And
we accomplished our goal of
initiating the dialogue."
Cardin, president of the
Council of Jewish Federa-
tions, says the delegation met
with leaders of majority and
minority parties in the
government and told them
how potentially serious a pro-
blem there could be if the
Law of Return is amended to
give the chief rabbis the
power to determine the validi-
ty of all conversions to
Judaism. Many American
Jews, the majority of whom
are not Orthodox, may feel
alienated from the Jewish
state.
Cardin asserted that this is
not an issue of fund-raising —
the fear that American Jews
will curtail their financial
support of Israel — but a
deeper issue of the unity of
the people of Israel. "My fear
is that if this legislation is
passed, there could be an ir-
reparable schism between
Diaspora Jewry and Israel,"
she said.
The North American
delegation advocated that the
Who Is A Jew issue be dealt
with through a religious
framework, though not
necessarily the Chief Rab-
binate, or through the
ministerial committee, head-
ed by Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, which has been work-
ing on the problem for several
months. "The point is to get
this issue out of the political
arena. We do not want it to be
used as a political tool," said
Cardin.
A Knesset vote on three
bills that would have given
greater power to the rabbinic
courts over matters of per-
sonal status (marriage,
divorce, conversion, etc.) did
not come up last Wednesday
as scheduled. Cardin says this
was due in part to the fact
that the National Religious

Party withdrew its support for
the Shas party's legislation,
believing that there not
enough votes to win a majori-
ty. She also credited her
delegation with pressuring
some Knesset delegates and
"lending moral support to
others who were wavering."
But Cardin knows full well
that the issue is certain to
come up again. "This is a
problem that has been with
us for decades, and it is
foolhardy to think that one
can find a quick fix. The point
is to keep it out of the political
arena."
The strategy in combatting
the attempts in the Knesset
to amend the Law of Return
include meeting with in-
dividual members of the
Knesset who have not taken

"It is foolhardy to
think that one can
find a quick fix."

a firm position; launching an
educational effort in Israel
and the U.S. to deal with
misperceptions on both sides;
inviting Knesset members to
the General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federa-
tions, meeting in Miami in
mid-November, to discuss the
issue; and meeting with cen-
trist Orthodox leaders to con-
vince them to speak out on
the dangers of the proposed
legislation. "We don't want
them to compromise their
religious beliefs," noted Car-
din. "We want to tell them
why we think such legislation
would be harmful to all
segments of the Jewish peo-
ple."
She added that until now
some Orthodox leaders have
said privately that they op-
pose the Shas party's effort to
amend the law, but they have
been reluctant to speak out
against the effort.
In response to persistent
reports that the Lubavitcher
Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem
Schneerson of Brooklyn, is
behind the Knesset effort to
amend the Law of Return,
Cardin said her group plans
to meet with and
representatives a nd explore
their role.
"This is but the beginning
of a sincere effort to keep our
people together as a people,"
said Cardin. "This issue is
important but it should not
be divisive, inflammatory,
emotional and dangerous."

