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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1990
prepared by a single staff
member of the Philadelphia
AJC chapter and was never
approved by either their local
or national offices. Contrary
to the writers' accusations,
the AJC stated that it "has
taken no position with regard
to the JNA."
Let us consider some main
charges in the letter. An im-
portant one is that "NJA has
challenged U.S. priorities
with regard to U.S. military
and economic aid to Israel."
This is a classic half truth
that exemplifies the distor-
tions presented in the "fact
sheet." While one proposal at
the annual convention of NJA
did call for aid reduction, the
convention specifically came
out opposed to this view,
while at the same time call-
ing for a redirection of that
aid to make sure that it is
used in Israel and not in the
West Bank and Gaza. To
delegitimize a diverse
organization by taking the
most extreme positions of in-
dividuals and representing
them as the official view of
the organization is a scare
tactic that should have no
place in legitimate criticism.
Leikin and Panush cite what
the "fact sheet" considers ob-
jectionable means of express-
ing dissent and charges of
cooperating with "anti-
Israel" groups. The organiza-
tion's methods, however, are
not different from those of any
other group that uses a non-
violent approach to resolve
differences. Where would you
protest if you are appealing to
Jewish constituencies but
near institutions connected
with Jewish life? Who do you
dialogue with if you believe in
achieving peace through
negotiations but with Palesti-
nian and Arab groups in
order to exchange views,
achieve understanding, and
see if compromise is possible?
Agenda is only doing on a
local level what is now being
done on national and interna-
tional levels.
The premise is that debate
is • valuable and can lead to
peace and understanding.
This should be true in the
Jewish community as well,
and even more so given our
traditional concerns for
justice and democracy.
Francine Rosemberg-Ballard
Chairman,
New Jewish Agenda of
Metropolitan Detroit
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Give Soviet Jews
Standing Loans
The Detroit Jewish- com-
munity is gearing up to deal
with the influx of Soviet Jews
in our community. A key con-
cern raised by many is that
most of our Soviet brothers
may very well cut themselves
off from us once they achieve
financial independence. The
consensus is that only Jewish
education can save our
brothers from being lost in
the American melting pot.
I wish to propose a radical
solution to this problem: Let
all financial aid and aid in
kind be given in the form of
a standing loan. This loan
would be made subject to all
elementary school children in
the family attending Jewish
day schools. The loan could be
forgiven when the last child
completes elementary school.
I realize this means a
tremendous strain on the
resources of our day schools.
The community will have to
fund a major increase in the
budgets of these institutions.
This is, however, an obliga-
tion which we as a communi-
ty have taken upon ourselves.
Our community, and for
that matter, the American
Jewish community as a
whole, made the decision
years ago to press for the
right of Soviet Jews to opt for
the "Golden medinah" in-
stead of the "Jewish
medinah." Throughout the
Israel/U.S. Jewry debate the
Israelis warned us that by
taking this position we con-
demned our Soviet brothers to
go from a land where few
understood what it meant to
be Jewish to a country that
would encourage them to
forget that they are Jews at
all.
Now that our brothers are
here we must face up to our
obligation to prevent them
from losing their identities.
N
Aaron Lerner
Oak Park
`Mixed Marriage'
Letter Offensive
This is in reference to the
letter by Stacey Koltonow
("Should Mixed Marriages
Surprise?" Jan. 19).
I found her letter very offen-
ding. My parents brought me
up in a Jewish neighborhood
with Jewish values and a
great love and respect for my
religion.
I married a non-Jew who
participates in Jewish func-
tions, presides over the seder
and other holiday dinners and
goes with my children and me
to the synagogue.
I think Ms. Koltonow
should look at all the so call-
ed "real" Jews and see how
many of them are practicing
their religion — the Jews
whose parents "weren't eager
to assimilate."
K. Kapera
Farmington Hills
N