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just-concluded three-
part series in the
Forward, a national
English-language weekly,
on the American Jewish
Committee was "an
outrage," said AJC exec-
utive director David Harris.
"The story is simply in-
comprehensible from a jour-
nalistic point of view," said
Mr. Harris. "Why did it ap-
pear now? There was no ob-
vious explanation for its
placement long after the
issues it purported to ad-
dress occurred."
Written by free-lancer
Elana Neuman, the series
says the AJC has long been
permeated by the
"snobbism" of the "self-
appointed oligarchy of
wealthy German Jews" who
founded it in 1906.
In Washington, they lob-
bied with a "back-room,
genteel diplomacy." During
the Holocaust, they "refused
to badger the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration" about the
millions of Jews being killed
by the Nazis. After the war,
they reluctantly supported
Israel's creation, retreating
from an anti-Zionism that
Ms. Neuman writes was
based on a fear of generating
charges of dual loyalty and
losing "their new-found
social acceptability in
America."
After backing the civil
rights movement in the ear-
Arthur J. Magida is a senior
writer for the Baltimore Jew-
ish Times.
ly and mid-1960s, she
reports, the Committee lost
its way amid the "counter-.
cultural revolutions" —
Black Power, women's lib-
eration, the anti-war move-
ment —of the late 1960s.
This "programmatic confu-
sion," compounded- by a
"leadership vacuum,"
culminated in the organiza-
tion's February, 1990,
shake-up that slashed
budgets and staffing.
"A few months" before the
cutbacks, reports Ms.
Neuman, Laurence Tisch,
philanthropist and chair-
man of CBS, Inc., offered a
"substantial donation" to
the AJC if it merged with
the American Jewish Con-
gress.
"Traditional German Jew-
ish snobbism," she writes,
killed the deal.
Mr. Harris said he was
"personally not aware" of
the Tisch proposal. He also
said, "I don't know where all
these snobbish German Jews
are. One was certainly not
my Russian-speaking
mother or my refugee father
who she met in France."
Seth Lipsky, president and
editor of the Forward,
defended the series as "one
of what I hope will be several
on Jewish institutions that
will be printed over the de-
velopment of the [nine-
month-old] paper."
"The Committee happened
to be the first," said Mr. Lip-
sky, "because of the cut-
backs of a year ago. Even-
tually, we will look at all the
major Jewish institutions
because we take them seri-
ously and they are under-
covered by the press."