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General Assembly
At Its Very Best
GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
Of all the plen-
aries and forums
and workshops
I've attended at
a dozen General
Assemblies, of
all the lectures
and panels and
sermons and debates I've
heard, there is one moment
that stands out most vividly.
It was a Shabbat afternoon
in Dallas, 14 years ago, and
the mood in the huge
ballroom, overflowing with
more than 2,700 people, was
electric with anticipation.
After more than 30
minutes of waiting, in the
distance, a small, frail
woman in a simple black
dress entered the room, and
the crowd broke out in spon-
taneous applause and song.
They — we — sang Heveinu
Shalom Aleichem and
chanted "Golda, Golda."
It was an outpouring of
love and affection for Golda
Meir, the former Israeli
prime minister, who was 79
and ailing, and one sensed
that this may be the last
time we would see her. In-
deed, she died, in Israel,
several months later.
Her head was barely visi-
ble above the lectern, but
her voice was firm, and dur-
ing the next hour, speaking
without notes, she kept her
audience mesmerized. With
an unfailing memory and a
wry sense of humor, she
spoke of her first, and only
other, appearance at a G.A.
The year was 1948, and she
came to Chicago as part of a
whirlwind, six-week effort to
raise $25 million on behalf of
a Jewish nation that had not
yet declared statehood but
was already at war.
In the end, Mrs. Meir rais-
ed $50 million and, upon her
return to Jerusalem, David
Ben-Gurion remarked,
"Some day when history will
be written, it will be said
that there was a Jewish
woman who raised the
money that made the State
possible."
That day in Dallas, one
sensed a powerful bond bet-
ween Golda Meir and the
many hundreds of Jews from
throughout the U.S. and
Canada who had come to
help plan the communal
Jewish agenda and whose
concern for Israel and Jew-
ish peoplehood was para-
mount.
At the end of her address,
Mrs. Meir noted, "I almost
was going to say that in 30
years I'll come back and see
you all again. But I've
always been a realist. My
only hope is that one day I
can come back and be able to
say 'We made it — there is
peace in Israel.' "
That scene, and those
words, come to mind on the
eve of the 1991. General
Assembly, the first ever held
in Baltimore, as peace looms
as a possibility in the
Mideast.
The G.A. symbolizes
American Jewry at its best
— and points up some of its
weaknesses. Its emphasis is
on volunteer fund-raising
unmatched by any Jewish
community in history. The
numbers are remarkable.
It is estimated that the 189
federations throughout the
U.S. and Canada raised $1.2
billion last year for Israel,
Soviet Jewish resettlement,
Golda Meir:
She raised the money.
overseas and national agen-
cies as well as local Jewish
institutions, ranging from
family and vocational ser-
vices to boards of education.
But with its focus on con-
sensus, the federation world
has difficulty taking bold
and dramatic steps, par-
ticularly in dealing with
crises that transcend finan-
cial solutions.
Many studies have been
done to document the in-
crease in assimilation and
intermarriage and the
decline in Jewish education
and religious commitment.
But little has been done by
the organized Jewish com-
munity to counter those
trends because there is no
one unified approach. Re-
ligious issues are usually
avoided so as not to cause a
rift.