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because of this new holiday.
Janis came home from the
Mission a different Jew. We
were going to make aliyah
within two weeks, and move
in with our new Moroccan
friends and their 11 children
in our sister city of Yavne.
The house also returned to
normalcy. Amichai finally
took a bath. Rachel went to
school again (her hair still
hasn't grown back); the re-
cession returned to Sara's; I
got to read the newspaper in
the evenings and the house
is once again a mess.
In shul, none of my friends I
will talk to me (they claimed
I ruined it for all of them).
sleep through the night with
my wife in my bed and I tred6=\,
my female co-workers with )
more respect.
My wife may have experi-
enced a new relationship )
with Israel, but I forged a',
new relationship with my)
kids and got an unsurpassed
boost to my super-fragile ego, ‹
I also started a diet.
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tion, both sides benefit: the or-
ganization has a chance to
make its case and the journal-
ist has a more informed view
when he writes his story.
What makes the role of the
Jewish journalist particularly
delicate, though, is that at times
we see ourselves as deeply in-
volved advocates and partners
in the enterprise of building
Jewish community, but at
times we step back and try to
be objective observers, and at
other times we are outright crit-
ics.
For all the protestations
among the journalists that they
were just doing their job,on the
ADL case, for example, one was
left with the pain in Abe Fox-
man's voice as he explained
why he hoped that Jewish jour-
nalists would act with their
hearts as well as their heads.
There is no wall separating
the press from the community
in the Jewish world. It's more
like a revolving door, since
many Jewish newspapers in
this country are owned or heav-
ily subsidized by their local fed-
erations. Even the
independents are dependent on
remaining in good favor with
the communal powers that be.
The newspapers are desper-
atefor respect and credibility;
the organizations are insistent <,
on presenting a positive, unit-
ed front.
Not surprisingly, the com-
munity doesn't know how to
peg us, or what to expect of us.
"Sometimes we want you to be
the New York Times," ac-
knowledged one Jewish execu-
tive, "and sometimes we want
you to be the synagogue bul-
letin." This confusion of roles
often leads to mistrust on both /'
sides.
In the end, it comes down to
respect, trust and the strength
of personal relationships that
can withstand occasional dif-
ferences.
I think you can build a com-
munity by reporting its short-
comings — if you also report its
successes, and do it all with fair-
ness and a measure of empa-
thy.
Its a tall order, but one worth
striving for in the ongoing quest
to create a credible Jewish
newspaper as well as a credible
Jewish community. CI
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