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A family weekend designed especially
with pre-schoolers and their families in mind
December 9-11, 1988 at the Butzel Conference Center
featuring
Julie Jaslow Auerbach, songwriter, musician and author
"Creating special experiences for Shabbat & Chanukah"
Connie Fidler, M.A., N.C.C., Parenting Enhancement specialist
"Empowering parents as teachers" "Enhancing parent/child play"
Special Chanukah and Shabbat celebrations designed for the
pre-schooler and his/her family
Tamaratk naturalists, Family Camp staff and The Great Outdoors!
A weekend getaway for families of
all shapes and sizes. For more
information call Harlene Appelman
at 661-0600 or write to:
Jewish Experiences For Families
6600 West Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
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in symbolic politics. I mean,
obviously, if our rabbis aren't
rabbis and our converts aren't
converts, then our Judaism
isn't Judaism. Every Conser-
vative and Reform Jew would
see (passage of the law) as a
slap in the face!'
Yoffie also said the problem
was not one confined to just
Reform and Conservative
Jews. It was also a problem,
he said, for organizations
such as the United Jewish
Appeal and Jewish federa-
tions, most of whose members
are not associated with
Orthodoxy.
The UJA, the Council of
Jewish Federations and
United Israel Appeal recent-
ly ran an ad in several Israeli
papers to appeal to the Israeli
public on the matter of "Who
is a Jew;' said Frank Strauss,
the Council's director of com-
munications. The ad argued
that "any change in the Law
of Return would seriously
threaten the relationship bet-
ween Israel and American
Jews" and urged that the
issue not be treated as
"political football;' he said.
A spokesman for UJA said
that during the next few
weeks, as in the past, "there
will be much communication"
over the issue between
leaders of the American
Jewish community and
Israeli leaders. He said his
organization believed that
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir of Likud and Shimon
Peres of Labor were both
"very much aware of our con-
cerns" but that the Israeli
public needs to be made more
so. Israelis who are religious-
ly observant are almost ex-
clusively Orthodox, and the
Reform and Conservative
movements in Israel have
small congregations.
The leaders of several
American Orthodox organiza-
tions, however, said they
believed the Israeli public
would side with them if it
knew the facts about Reform
and Conservative Judaism.
As for the feeling of aliena-
tion among Reform, Conser-
vative and liberal Jews, one
said it would be no tragedy if
they distanced themselves
from Israeli affairs and
another suggested that, in
some casese, it might even
have a positive effect.
Israelis would support
amending the Law of-Return
if they knew that the Reform
movement permitted its rab-
bis to perform intermar-
riages, some with priests, said
Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld,
president of the American af-
filiate of Polei Agudat
Yisrael, one of Israel's
religious factions. Schonfeld
also said that American Jews
still haven't "learned the
lesson of the Holocaust and
Kristallnacht" — that they
exist because of Israel "and
not the other way around."
He added that Jewish groups
should not be in the "habit"
of threatening Israel and that
it would not be bad if some
leaders chose to curtail their
involvement "since they have
harmed Israel enough over
the years."
On the "Who is a Jew"
amendment, Schonfeld said
that although he favors
passage, religious factions
The leader of one
mainstream
Orthodox
organization said
the issue should
not be decided in
the Knesset. "It is
a religious issue
and not a political
issue."
should hold off for the time
being until they have
educated Israel's public on
the need for such legislation.
Schonfeld said the four par-
ties now have "a golden op-
portunity" to establish a
healing process in Israel and
that the law should be
amended "in a manner in
which people understand why
it has to be changed."
Other Orthodox leaders
said the law should be chang-
ed immediately. Rabbi
Yehuda Krinsky of the
Lubavitch movement said he
would see any delay as "an
ostritch-like stance" to avoid
dealing with an admittedly
painful issue. He said the
matter was "not a Lubavit-
cher issue, as it's painted to
be, but goes to the very
essence of who a Jew is!'
Likewise, Rabbi Herschel
Kurzrock of the Rabbinical
Alliance of America made
clear that his organization
favored immediate action on
the issue. If some American
Jews distanced themselves
from Israel as a result, Kur-
zrock said, "What can we do?
So, they break away. What's
right is right and, if we do
what's right, God will help
us!'
Kurzrock said that those
who want peace and harmony
among the Jewish people
should advocate "that things
be done according to Jewish
law." Reform and Conser-
vative Jews, he said, do not
practice Halachic Judaism.
The leader of one
mainstream Orthodox
organization, Rabbi Ben-
jamin Walfish, executive vice