tion. The bill also allows
employers to mandate that
employees follow the re-
ligious tenets of the organ-
ization.

Both provisions are strong-
ly opposed by groups like the
American Jewish Com-
mittee, but supported by
some Orthodox groups with
their own child care net-
works.

If all of this sounds like an
arcane "inside the Beltway"
issue, Golub argues to the
contrary.
"The Jewish community
had better wake up," she
said. "There is an attempt
underway to shift the bal-
ance in the area of church-
state separation. This is just
the opening battle of what
will be one of the major
issues of the 1990s."

How Much Aid Will Israel
Get Next Time Around?

Jewish groups are still try-
ing to gauge the prospects
for Israel in the upcoming
foreign aid debate — and try-
ing to read signals coming
from key administration and
congressional players in the
aid process.
Recently, Sen. Robert Byrd
(D-W.Va.) suggested the pos-
sibility that aid cuts could be
higher than the 5 percent
proposed by Sen. Robert
Dole (R-Kans.)
"These are fighting words
— and they're not coming
from an obscure member of
the Senate," said Dan
Mariaschin, director of
public policy for B'nai
B'rith. "The impact of Sen.
Dole's comments seemed to
have ebbed; Byrd's state-
ment gave them a boost
again. More importantly,
the taboos against talking
about cuts have been
broken."
Most pro-Israel activists
here do not expect any seri-
ous effort to slash aid for the
upcoming fiscal year. But
they are less sanguine about
prospects for the future.
"We're living through the
precedent-setting period,"
Mariaschin said. "More and
more, the argument for cut-
ting aid to Israel is based on
the idea that there are other
areas of the world that have
a desperate need for aid — an
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said one aid to a Jewish
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Members of the Congres-
sional black caucus have
been circulating a letter
supporting Dole's sugges-
tions, and arguing for more
aid to Africa —a goal that
many Jewish activists here
support, as long as the
money does not come from
Israel's foreign aid budget.

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