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pendence from the Jews."
Which, of course, is why so
many Jews are critical of Is-
rael.
Dr. Wisse demonstrates
how the Arabs have been
successful in telling "the Big
Lie."
What they have failed to
accomplish in wars, she
notes, they have achieved in
the war of ideas. And the let-
ter may prove to be more
powerful in the end.
In assessing writers — in-
cluding Israelis — who take
great pride in their criticism
of Israel, she writes:
"The rewards that they get
. . . for delivering up the im-
age of the ugly Israeli cannot
obscure the ugliness of the
cultural trend that this im-
age represents."
The question — a difficult
one admittedly — is not what
needs to be done. But how
can it be done?
How can a people be moti-
vated to do for itself which it
has no hesitancy to do for
others?
How can a people be mobi-
lized to look anti-Semitism

in the eye and condemn it
with the same force it con-
demns racism?
How can one convince the
liberal community — in the
Diaspora or in Israel — that
compromise in Israel is not
the issue but extinction is?
As penetrating as her book
is, unfortunately, Dr. Wisse
provides no answers to that
end.
That is not a criticism of
her work. It is rather a hope
that someone may have an
answer and provide one.
If none comes along then
indeed anti-Semitism's dura-
bility may go well beyond the
20th century.
As she concludes: "Despite
the indignity of their politi-
cal situation, Jews cannot be
excused from facing it, for
only if they stand up to Arab
enmity can they claim to be
maintaining human rights.
Jews will never prove them-
selves moral by seeking
refuge from their struggle be-
hind the banner of liberal-
ism. But liberalism assuredly
will be judged by whether it
can protect the Jews." ❑

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who is involved with a mis-
sionary group.
Since our services also in-
clude advising people who are
being proselytized by friends or
co-workers and providing re-
sources to communal institu-
tions, the one-call-per-month
figure represents only a frac-
tion of our activities.
For example, in the 2 1/2
years that our computer bul-
letin board system (313-967-
5397) has been operational, it
has received over 1,000 mes-
sages (most of which are re-
quests for information or
assistance) which have reached
our system via KesherNet, an
international Jewish comput-
er network.
Though our activities are
certainly constrained by the fi-
nancial challenges which all
Jewish organizations face in to-
day's economic reality, I want
to stress that Jews For Ju-
daism, both locally and na-
tionally, remains a viable
resource for the Jewish com-
munity.

Ronnie Schreiber
Oak Park

The Big Yawn
And Prayer

In response to Gary Rosen-
blatt's "Yawn" (Feb. 26), his
boredom doesn't necessarily lie

within the walls of the syna-
gogue.
Our prayers, most of which
have been with us for thou-
sands of years, are woven into
the fabric of our souls, from
Yemen to Bombay to Moscow
to Detroit. Every Jew, every
community wove the same
prayers to form their own iden-
tity, their own culture, not for
God's ears but for their own.
It seems that our American
digestive tracts have a hard
time digesting the savory
prayers of time but yet we still
can't concoct a new recipe of
our own.
If you had a choice, what
would you choose? A prayer
that has been slowly cooking in
the oven, its aromas permeat-
ing every pore of the house, or
a warmed-up slice of pizza?
Do you really believe that the
problem lies within the service?
Toss out the extra prayers.
Void complicated laws. Change
"Adon Olam" to "Surfin' USA."
Eliminate the rabbi's speech.
Boredom doesn't start in the
synagogue, it starts before you
even enter the door. Prayer is
not a pizza to be microwaved
Saturday morning. Prayer has
to be cooked. When you know
how'to pray, the service isn't
boring.

Mayer Fox
Oak Park

