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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1988

WERE FIGHTING FOR
YOUR LIFE

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Three Points Of View
On Who Is A Jew'

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to the Jewish News

Point 1: The
Jewish Press

As the "Who Is A Jew"
issue ripples its way through
Diaspora-Israeli relations, the
American Jewish press has
unanimously opposed chang-
ing Israel's definition of a
Jew.
Editorials in Jewish papers
have adamantly insisted that
reforming Israel's Law of
Return would be totally
wrong. A few excerpts from
selected editorials:
• The Jewish Advocate,
Boston: "Still reeling from
the toll taken by the Holo-
caust, the Jewish people have
started down a long road of
recovery. The State of Israel
and pluralismin the Diaspora
are both parts of the tableau
upon which time will operate
to achieve this . . . It is essen-
tial that neither part be lost
to the other for the sake of the
Jewish destiny.
". . It is a principle of
Judaism to take recognition
to the sensibilities of others
when possible that should
keep the law as it is."
• The Jewish Times, Atlan-
ta: "For Israel to take such an
intransigent position could be
to risk alienating potentially
millions of Jews, particularly
those in the United States
who have been Israel's most
loyal supporters."
• The Jewish Exponent,
Philadelphia: "The holiness
of the Jewish people and the
creation and maintenance of
a Likud-led coalition govern-
ment are not one and the
same.
"That essentially is the
blunt message" carried by a
delegation of American
Jewish leaders who went to
Israel "in love, dedicated and
strengthening the bonds that
tie all Jews together."

Point II: An
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In an event little noted in
the American press, Jewish
or otherwise, sources told the
Jerusalem Post that for a
spiritual leader of the Israeli
Orthodox political party,
Shas, "even the [Israeli]
soldier who eats pork on Yom
Kippur- is still one of his
children and every Jewish life
is sacred."

This view of Rabbi Eliezar
Schach was reported because
he opposes a coalition govern-
ment with other religious

parties. He believes their in-
sistence on the inviolability of
the entire land of Israel, in-
cluding the West Bank, would
lead to another Arab-Israeli
war. To the National
Religious Party and Agudat
Yisrael, said the rabbi, "blood
is not important."
But Schach's view on the
sanctity of Jewish life —
whether or not that Jew ob-
serves Halachah, or Jewish
law — also suggests he differs
with the ultra-Orthodox par-
ties' demands to change
Israel's Law of Return to
redefine who is a Jew.
Also, according to the Post,
Rabbi Schach favors a coali-
tion not only with Israel's
Labor Party, but also with
such "anti-religious" parties
as Mapam, the Citizen's
Movement and Shinui.'
Schach reportedly believes
these groups "are equally con-
cerned about Jewish blood be-
ing spilled.
The 92-year-old Rabbi
Schach was formerly head of
the Agudat Yisrael Council of
Sages. The Post reports he
"provided the impetus and
spiritual stature" for Shas'
formation four years ago.
Since the 1967 Six-Day War,
Rabbi Schach has feared what
he calls the "false mes-
sianism" of the Gush
Emunim, the Israeli group
which has pushed for more
Israeli settlements on the
West Bank.

Point III: A
Bitter Writer

So her sister, who recently
came to Orthodoxy, could
have a proper Orthodox wed-
ding in Israel, writer Nancy
M. Lederman was essentially
declared a bastard.
Lederman's bitter account
of her sudden illegitimacy ap-
peared on the New York
Times' op-ed page last week.
Arriving in Israel for her
sister's nuptials, she was told
by Reuben, her future broth-
er-in-law's brother, that
Lederman's mother had sent
an affidavit confirming that
there had been no Orthodox
Jews present at the wedding
to her first husband.
The affidavit had been
necessary because Leder-
man's mother had not ob-
tained a get — a Jewish
divorce — to dissolve her first
marriage. A get-less divorce
would have made the bride-to-
be a bastard. But the absence
of Orthodox at the wedding,
said Reuben, made the first
marriage "a nullity in Jewish
law."

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