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ple Youth, which came to
Washington for a four-day
workshop on AIDS. The group
paid an unannounced visit to
Green's synagogue, and
observed the operation of an
AIDS clinic. NFTY's national
leadership voted to make
AIDS its major concern for
the current year.
Green has also participated
in several training sessions
for rabbis on dealing with
PWAs, and "Shabbatons" at
local synagogues.
And in another sign of pro-
gress, a - Conservative
synagogue in New York
recently sent a letter to Bet
Mishpachah, which reprinted
it in their newsletter.
"We reach out to you as
fellow Jews, as a fellow con-
gregation and as members of
a community that has been
brutally affected by the AIDS
epidemic," wrote Rabbi Mar-
shall T. Meyer of Congrega-
tion Beth Simchat Torah in
Manhattan. "We believe
fervently that no Jew with
AIDS should feel the ache of
alienation from the Jewish
community at large."
The synagogue invited
members of the gay and les-
bian synagogue for a day of
"compassion and understan-
ding . between our com-
munities."
This compassion and
understanding is at the heart
of what David Green and
other AIDS activists seek
from the Jewish community.
"We want what the com-
munity has always offered,"
Green says. "Caring, support,
touching. The scariest thing
about AIDS is thinking
you're going to be left alone.
Jewish people have always
taken care of their own; this
is no time to stop."
Even simple acts, like
notices in synagogue newslet-
ters urging people concerned
about AIDS to come to the
rabbi to talk, can make a dif-
ference, he says.
"The important thing is to
leave the door open," he says.
"Let people know they can
talk discretely; if there isn't
anyone to talk to, they just get
sicker. It's very lonely."
Rabbi Edelheit, who recent-
ly published a provocative ar-
ticle entitled "The Rabbi and
the Abyss of AIDS," focuses
more on eliminating the
stigma attached to the
disease. "People with AIDS
and their families need an ac-
ceptance which is not merely
non-judgmental, but is
understanding that these peo-
ple are pariahs, in view of the
epidemic. We also have to be
more understanding in terms
of our financial support."
Eidelheit gives an example
of the kind of ethical quan-

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