said, have a clear respon-
sibility to look after their
own first. If an immigrant
and a veteran Jerusalemite
both lack bread, the
Jerusalem municipality
must feed the Jerusalemite
first. The same is true if both
want for housing. However,
if the Jerusalemite lacks
housing, and the immigrant
bread, the city has a respon-
sibility to provide the immi-
grant with food.
In any case, he said, the
municipalities should freeze
all plans for parks, flowers,
and summer festivals, and
dedicate their funds to pro-
viding for the needs of the
immigrants and the poor.
What neither Rabbi
Bakshi-Doron, nor any of the
other rabbis at the con-
ference dealt with, was the
halachic responsibility
towards the non-Jewish
Soviet immigrants who are
arriving.
Except for a lecture by
Rabbi Eliahu Rabbi Essas
that dealt with the numbers
of non-Jews likely to im-
migrate, none of the rabbis
touched on the issue of
whether Israel should
change the Law of Return,
as some have argued. The
law stipulates that anyone
with one Jewish grand-
parent is eligible to make
aliya.
Rabbi Essas, a Soviet ac-
tivist who made aliya in
1986, said that people are
afraid to deal with the issue.
"Everybody is afraid to
deal with this problem, be-
cause it is so politically ex-
plosive," he said. "Rabbis
won't advocate changing the
law, because they fear it
would reduce immigration
from the Soviet Union. But
they are also afraid to ad-
vocate keeping the law as it
is, out of concern that the
country will be overrun by
non-Jewish immigrants."
According to Rabbi Essas's
figures, based on official
Soviet figures and numbers
provided by Jewish leaders
in the USSR, 12 million to
18 million Soviets could
potentially move to Israel.
There are two million Jews
in the Soviet Union who
have two Jewish parents, he
said. Another million people
have a Jewish mother, and
two million have a Jewish
father. In addition, there are
non-Jewish spouses and
family members.
All this raises another
halachic question; namely, if
someone comes to a rab-

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