NEWS Immimmi
s
Announcing
THE
EDGAR M. BRONFMAN
YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS
IN ISRAEL
his summer a group of out-
standing Jewish teenagers in
1990
the U.S. and Canada, corn-
ing from a variety of secular and synagogue backgrounds and entering
their senior year of high school, will spend a stirring month of study,
travel and dialogue in Israel.
They will be recipients of the Edgar M. Bronfman Youth
Fellowships,* a fully-endowed program based not on need but on
merit. The five-week program begins July 8. All meals will be kosher,
and Sabbath activities will be in the spirit of the day.
The Bronfman Fellows will be mature, talented and curious,
with proven qualities of leadership, intellect and character. Based in
Jerusalem, they will spend their time intensively exploring the land,
culture and customs of Israel...taking part in seminars with some of
the country's most prominent political and cultural figures.. . debating
ideas and seeking answers on the different ways of defining oneself as
a Jew today, in an atmosphere of mutual respect and earnest and
open dialogue.
They will be led by a team of educators and counselors of
rich Jewish background with a wide variety of Jewish perspectives.
And they will return home with
For a descriptive brochure and application
a new understanding of—and
form, please call or write at once to:
commitment to—the Jewish peo- EDGAR M. BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS IN ISRAEL
ple, the Jewish state and the
Albany, NY 12202
17 Wilbur Sind
building of Jewish unity.
Telephone (518) 465-6575
Artwork from Newsday by Anthony D'Adamo. Copyright • 1989, Newsday. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
Abortion Fight Sparks
Jewish Women's Groups
ALLISON KAPLAN
Special to The Jewish News
*Fellowships cover all expenses, including roundtrip transportation, room and board, travel
in Israel and incidentals. Completed applications must be postmarked by February 1, 1990.
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j swish women, ranging
from blue-jeaned col-
lege students to well-
heeled Hadassah members,
are among the thousands
planning to gather in
Washington and in state
capitals around the country
for the "Mobilizer for
Women's Lives" rally on
Nov. 12.
Women's groups comprise
nearly half of the 14 Jewish
advocacy, social welfare and
religious organizations that
have signed on in support of
the rally, reflecting the
overwhelming number of
American Jews who support
a woman's right to choose
whether to terminate a
pregnancy.
The organizations endors-
ing the Nov. 12 coalition
range from Jewish women's
groups that have been
behind the pro-choice cause
for decades, such as the Na-
tional Council of Jewish
Women, to relative
newcomers to the issue, such
as Hadassah.
Hadassah's stance, and its
participation in the upcom-
ing pro-choice rally, along
with that of Na'amat USA,
B'nai B'rith Women,
Women's American ORT,
and the women's arms of the
Reform and Conservative
movements of Judaism, rep-
resent the result of a gradual
evolution among the ranks
of American Jewish
women's groups.
These organizations,
which traditionally have
tended to focus on support of
charitable works in Israel,
are now vocal on a number of
women's domestic issues
and, most vigorously, the
abortion question.
Longtime Jewish feminist
Susan Weidman Schneider,
editor of the Jewish feminist
magazine Lilith and author
of Jewish and Female, sees a
distinct contrast between
the activism of mainstream
Jewish women's groups to-
day and their earlier ap-
proaches toward issues like
reproductive choice.
Many of feminism's early
leaders were Jewish, and
over the years, Jewish
women, like the vast
majority of Jews, have con-
sistently supported repro-
ductive freedom.
A 1985 study by B'nai
B'rith Women found that 91
percent of Jewish women
believed that every woman
who wants an abortion
should be able to obtain one,
as opposed to only 56 percent
of non-Jewish women.
Yet, Schneider recalls, in
the 1960s and 1970s, there
was reluctance among the
ranks of Jewish women's
organizations to mobilize
their membership on the
abortion issue.
"I remember in 1975 at-
tending a meeting preparing
for the (U.N.) Decade of
Women with representatives
of Jewish women's organiza-
tions," Schneider said, "and
there was nervousness about
getting on the planks of the
women's agenda, including
reproductive rights. They
felt they were Jews first and
women second."
But as the pro-choice
movement has galvanized
nationally to counter the in-
creasingly vocal and power-
ful anti-abortionists, the
issue has grabbed the
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