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116
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1990
Our Need Exists
To Go To Jerusalem
HASKEL LOOKSTEIN
Special to The Jewish News
A
merican Jews are,
correctly, outraged by
the Arab rock
throwers and knife-wielders
in the Holy Land who attack
worshipers at the Western
Wall and innocent civilians
in the streets.
We are angry at a United
Nations which condemns
Israel unfairly and ignores
the atrocities of Israel's
enemies. We are disap-
pointed in the Bush ad-
ministration's readiness to
join in that condemnation in
the interest of maintaining
the coalition of the nations of
the world against a vicious
and dangerous tyrant in
Iraq.
All of our rallies have ad-
dressed these awesome prob-
lems and we must maintain
vigilance and pressure in the
weeks and months ahead to
deal with these vital issues.
But there is another prob-
lem which we have thus far
ignored, and which
threatens to dwarf all of the
others in importance. That
problem is the disap-
pearance of American Jews
from the streets of
Jerusalem and all of Israel
during the past three years
and, particularly, for the
past three months.
Those few who have
returned from spending the
High Holy Day season in
Israel report that the hotels
are empty. At one point dur-
ing Sukkot, there were nine
guests in the Jerusalem
Hilton, a hotel where, in the
past, one practically needed
to know a government min-
ister in order to get a room
during the festival season of
the year.
But the issue is far more
than economic. The issue is
the morale of our brothers
and sisters who know that
they are repudiated by much
of the world but who now
fear that they are being
abandoned by American
Jews.
That fear is potentially
much more destructive than
Arab rock throwers, U.N.
blame-throwers and even
United States guilt-
throwers. The feeling that
Israelis are isolated even
from the Jewish community
here in the United States is
Rabbi Lookstein is chairman
of the Greater New York Coali-
tion. for Soviet Jews.
potentially so demoralizing
as to raise the possibility of
hopelessness in Israel itself.
If, in fact, we leave the
streets of Israel empty of
American Jews, then we are
handing the Arabs their
greatest victory. If we are
afraid to go on missions and
to daven at the Kotel, to see
the beautiful sights of the
Holy Land, what do we ex-
pect of Israelis? When will
they turn around and call us
cowards, traitors or, even
worse, bystanders as were
our forebears 50 years ago?
The terrible irony of our
timorous mood here is that
the facts of life in Israel are
vastly different from what
American Jews fear.
I was in Tel Aviv during
the last three days of
August, when the talk of gas
masks and storing provi-
sions was at its height.
Friends of mine questioned
me about why I was going at
such a dangerous time. In
Tel Aviv, however, I felt ab-
solutely no danger. I looked
at the crowds on the beach,
the sunbathers around the
pool in the Tel Aviv Hilton,
and all of the other people
going about the business of
working or touring and hav-
ing a wonderful time doing
it.
The reality in Israel is so
different from the false
images conjured up by sen-
sationalist reporters on TV
and in the newspapers. The
reality is, quite clearly, that
it is much safer to walk on
any street in Israel than on
Park Avenue and Fifth
Avenue in New York. One's
health and life are at far
greater risk in utilizing
public transportation in our
metropolitan area than
riding the buses in Israel.
It is up to you and me to
change this distorted
perspective about Israel. It is
up to you and me to show
other American Jews that a
visit to Israel is joyous, uplif-
ting, inspiring — and very
safe. The only way to do this
is by going. You and I must
pick ourselves up, drop
whatever we are doing and
go and spend time, happily,
in Jerusalem and in the
other cities of Israel.
That is why Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun and the
Ramaz School launched
"Operation L'hitraot" with
a mini-mission to Israel from
Nov. 10 to Nov. 16. We urge
other congregations and
schools to form their own
mini-missions. Give up a
week and gain a land. ❑