B'nai B'rith
Michigan Regional Council,
The Jewish News
narrow, treacherous course
on the issue at the top of the
agenda of the NJCRAC
plenum and the Jewish
community as a whole: the
Middle East peace process.
The O.U. has expressed
concern over the direction of
the peace process, but unlike
the rival Young Israel
movement, it has not loudly
opposed it. The O.U. has also
taken criticism for sending
its leadership last
September to the White
House ceremony where
Israel and the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization signed
the historic declaration of
principles on self-rule in the
administered territories.
An O.U. walkout now from
the NJCRAC umbrella could
have sparked a reassess-
ment of the organization's
efforts to maintain a position
on the peace process com-
patible with the general
support given by other, non-
Orthodox organizations.
For Rabbi Yoffie, though,
preventing an O.U. shift on
the peace process was never
a consideration.
"Their answer is that it
(the resolution) cannot be
considered at anytime, so I
The OU threatens
to walk.
don't find those reasons
compelling," he said.
"For 45 years, there's
always been a compelling
reason why this cannot be
considered by communal
bodies," he said. "There are
new issues on the agenda.
We can't put them off until
the peace process is com-
pleted, which will take
years.
"I still want the Orthodox
Union in NJCRAC, but they
cannot prevent NJCRAC,
which has dealt with a whole
range of issues, including
those internal to Israel, from
putting such issues on the
agenda," said Rabbi Yoffie.
But the scheduled keynote
speaker at the NJCRAC
plenum, Deputy Foreign
Minister Yossi Beilin, says
he thinks peace is more im-
portant than pluralism.
"My general opinion is we
should be a liberal,
pluralistic society," Mr.
Beilin told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency. "I was one
of those who suggested
separating church and
state" when Israel's Labor
Party was debating its plat-
form two years ago.
"But if you ask if it is the
most important thing on the
agenda, I would say no, it's
not the most important," he
said. ❑
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