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Debate On Mitalism
Delayed In
New York (JTA) — A major
battle in the United States
between Reform and Or-
thodox groups over religious
pluralism in Israel has been
postponed but not averted.
The Reform movement's
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations had hoped
the National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory
Council would take a bold
stand on the issue at its an-
nual plenum next week in
New Orleans.
But a resolution offered by
the UAHC calling on Israel
"to end the religious monop-
oly granted to one segment
of Jewry” will not be
debated on the plenum floor.
A NJCRAC committee
responsible for plenum
resolutions, meeting twa
weeks before the annual
gathering of delegates from
Jewish communities across
the country, ruled that the
pluralism resolution must
first go through the um-
brella organization's com-
mittee-heavy "process."
This averted a threat by
the Union of Orthodox Jew-
ish Congregations of
America to walk out of
NJCRAC if the topic were
raised. Such a move would
have left the major umbrella
group charged with setting
Jewish communal policy
without an Orthodox voice.
The rationale behind the
Orthodox Union's walkout
threat, which was first re-
ported by the New York-
based weekly Forward, was
explained by Betty
Ehrenberg, executive direc-
tor of the group's Institute
for Public Affairs.
"We see this as a religious
issue and as an internal
Israeli issue, and on the
basis of those two facts, we
don't feel NJCRAC is the
proper venue for addressing
these issues," she said.
"One day the Israelis will
decide on a constitution and
will decide on their own re-
ligious structures, but this is
not something American
Jews should determine by
remote control," she added.
But Rabbi Eric Yoffie, di-
rector of the Commission on
Social Action of Reform
Judaism, insists that re-
ligious pluralism in Israel is
"a political issue and a civil
rights issue."
"We can't apply one stan-
dard to this country and app-
ly a different one when look
to the Jewish state," he said,
noting the strong support of
NJCRAC — including the
Orthodox Union —for
American legislation sup-
porting the rights of re-
ligious minorities.
Despite the procedural
defeat the Reform movement
suffered with its resolution,
which Rabbi Yoffie admits
was submitted late in the
elaborate NJCRAC process,
the UAHC hopes to bring
the resolution before the
umbrella group's 1995
plenum.
And meanwhile, the
Reform movement intends to
seek the support of local
Jewish community relations
councils for its position.
Eric Yoffie:
Consistent standards.
NJCRAC is made up of over
100 of these local councils, as
well as 13 national Jewish
organizations.
Already, the Community
Relations Council of the
Jewish Federation of
Portland, Ore., has adopted
the call "to extend full
freedom of religion to all
Jews in Israel."
For its part, the Orthodox
Union has alerted its mem-
bers, and the Orthodox rab-
binate, that the issue is now
on the local agenda.
"I would be very surprised
if many communities decid-
ed to pass this," said Ms.
Ehrenberg of the O.U. "I
think there will be many
JCRCs who will decide this
will be too divisive."
She said that for JCRCs to
adopt this measure would
"dramatically reduce their
effect," since there will be a
whole segment of the Jewish
community that they will
not be representing.
The controversy comes at a
time when the Orthodox
Union has walked a very
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