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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1990
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depends on how much visible
progress is made in the
sphere of housing, for
starters. Unless the threat of
homelessness is dispelled —
either by having natives
rent out rooms or by impor-
ting more manufactured
units and building more
quickly —even an avowed
optimist like Jan Schneider
warns that "in a few months
there's going to be an explo-
sion."
Moisiev Lev agrees that
the patience and optimism of
the immigrant community
are not limitless. "If we find
ourselves living in the
streets, fear not: there will
be an earthquake here."
And if matters reach that
point, Mr. Lev believes it
will be necessary to slow
down the rate of immigra-
tion.
That little heresy is some-
thing no politician is ready
to espouse — at least not
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by manual labor; so many
other academics and profes-
sionals are in the same boat
right now that there's no
stigma attached to it.
"We're going to have to get
through some tough years,"
says Mr. Schneider, "but
things will turn around once
new industries start up."
If he has any anxieties,
they're not about his own
future but about family and
friends back in the Ukraine
who continue to live in fear.
Naum Flax, a 56-year-old
chemical engineer with two
married children, has
likewise had no luck in fin-
ding a job in his profession.
He brings in $275 a month
working as a guard, to which
his wife adds another $550
as an assistant nurse, and
they're about to move in
with their daughter to save
on rent. Mr. Flax's greatest
concern is about purchasing
an apartment.
How long will the op-
timism last among Soviet
Jews? That probably
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oncern that ultra-
Orthodox Jews are
coming to dominate
Israel and turn it into a
theocratic state is utterly
unfounded, according to an
Israeli educator who
dismisses such fears as
"bubba meisahs."
Liberal Jews, especially
liberal Zionists, may be
relieved by the conclusions
of Sam Lehman-Wilzig, who
teaches political studies at
Bar-Ilan University, an
Israeli institution affiliated
with the Orthodox main-
stream.
Writing in Sh'ma, he
maintains that "it is not the
feeling of increasing
strengt,h which drives the
`haredim' (ultra- Orthodox),"
but rather "fear and des-
peration" over a secular cul-
ture which is "inexorably
undermining the very foun-
dation" of their way of life in
Israel.
"From the standpoint of
ultra-Orthodox demands,"
the kulturkampf has gone
bad, the writer maintains.
The ultra-Orthodox dem-
onstrated and rioted against
public swimming pools with
mixed bathing in Jerusalem.
But the sexes continue to
mingle in pools all over
Israel, he noted.
The haredim demanded in
1969 that Israel's new state-
run television should not
broadcast on Shabbat.
Israel's High Court of
Justice allows Shabbat
broadcasting to this day.
The haredim managed to
make Israel's anti-abortion
law more restrictive, but
there has been no change in
the number of abortions in
Israel.
Residents of the Ramot
suburb of Jerusalem have
been stoning cars driven on
the Sabbath for years, but
the Ramot road remains in
constant use where it passes
through ultra-Orthodox
neighborhoods.
In the early 1980s, the
haredim demanded that El
Al, the national airline of
Israel, be grounded on
Shabbat.
El Al planes no longer land
in Israel on Shabbat, "but
flights do occur — especially
through subsidiary firms,"
the educator pointed out.
For 10 years, the haredim
prevented construction of a
soccer stadium in
Jerusalem. One was inau-
gurated this summer.
When a woman was elect-
ed to a municipal religious
council, the rabbis said they
could not sit with her for