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W
ith Israel's Ortho-
dox right now
poised to push its
agenda, including passage of
the so-called "Who is a Jew"
amendment, much of the
leadership of American Jewry
is calling on Israel's two ma-
jor parties not to submit to
"blackmail?'
The leaders of five Conser-
vative Jewish organizations
urged Monday that Labor and
Likud join together in
another broad government in-
stead of bargaining separate-
ly with Israel's four religious
parties in efforts to establish
a narrow-led coalition. "There
is little doublt that if either
Labor or Likud attempt to
form a government without
the other, it will be subject to
blackmail of extremist, non-
Zionist political parties,"
their statement said.
A broad representation of
more than 20 major national
Jewish groups, including
B'nai B'rith, Hadassah and
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, were expected to issue
a similar statement later this
week in New York.
The activity comes less
than a week after the Israeli
election in which the
religious factions won 18
Knesset seats — an increase
of six over the Orthodox show-
ing in 1984. The outcome
gives the parties a pivotal role
in the formation of Israel's
next government since
neither Labor nor Likud won
enough seats in the
120-member parliament to
form a government on its
own. Three of the religious
factions are non-Zionist and
the other — the National
Religious Party — is con-
sidered ritually moderate but
politically hardline.
Many American Jewish
leaders are focusing their con-
cern on the emotional issue of
the proposed amendment to
the Law of Return, which
grants automatic citizenship
to all Jews and defines them
as those born of a Jewish
mother or converted to
Judaism. The amendment,
defeated several times in the
past, would redefine Jews as
those born of a Jewish mother
or converted "according to
halachah, Orthodox Jewish
law" — in effect, giving Or-
thodox rabbis sole authority
over conversions to Judaism.
Opponents of the amendment
say it deligitimized the
Reform and Conservative
movements as alternatives to
Orthodoxy. Proponents —
some Orthodox groups — de-
fend the amendment as in
keeping with Judaism and
note that only a handful of
people are actually affected a
year.
Changing the law would
create "deep divisions within
the American Jewish com-
munity," according to Morris
Abram, chairman of the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza-
tions. While emphasizing
that neither he nor the
Presidents' Conference has