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New York (JTA) — American
Jews are being urged to host their
fellow Jews for Shabbat meals,
organize study groups and form
havurot.
These efforts at spreading Jew-
ish identity and helping "other
Jews grow in their Jewishness"
are among the recommendations
contained in a 36-page draft re-
port of the North American Com-
mission on Jewish Identity and
Continuity.
The draft was presented at a
meeting of the commission on
Nov. 16 in Denver at the Gener-
al Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations.
The 88-member commission
brought together leaders from all
walks of Jewish life — federa-
tions and synagogues, seminar-
ies and national Jewish
organizations, rabbis and acade-
mics — to map out new directions
as the American. Jewish commu-
nity shills focus from rescuing en-
dangered Jews abroad to
strengthening Jewish life at
home.
The draft, reflecting a year's
discussion of the commission and
four constituent working groups,
described Jewish identity as "the
bedrock of Jewish continuity."
It said the community's goal
"must be to make Jewish iden-
tity more central and meaning-
ful for more Jews, not just for the
sake of the community's future,
but because of Judaism's life-en-
riching power."
But the report did not define
Jewish identity.
Discussing the draft at the re-
cent commission meeting, Rabbi
David Elcott said it was "dis-
turbing" that the commission
came up with neither a descrip-
tion of what a Jewish identity en-
tails, nor the building blocks for
creating one.
"If the report was talking about
enhancing health, we would ex-
pect recommendations, such as
`don't smoke, exercise,' etc."
said Elcott, academic vice pres-
ident at CLAL: The National
Jewish Center For Learning and
Leadership.
It is likely that such recom-
mendations may make their way
into a final version of the report,
which the commission hopes to
present early next year.
Proposals range from the ab-
stract, such as calls for greater
cooperation between institutions,
to the more concrete, such as
suggestions that communities
make a concerted effort to keep
teens involved in Jewish life af-
ter their bar or bat-mitzvah cel-
ebrations.
As an amalgam of reports from
the four separate working groups,
the report contains some incon-
sistencies.
While one group was urging
that the high school, college and
young-family years be seen as the
prime focus of new efforts, the
working group on "reaching and
involving Jews outside the in-
tensely affiliated core" zeroed in
on young people out of college and
not yet married.
Which should be the priority?
"That's a real issue," said
Jonathan Woocher, executive vice
president of the Jewish Educa-
tion Service of North America,
who compiled the report. "It will
be resolved not by a commission,
but community by community,
institution by institution. For any
national commission to come out
and say, 'here is the rank order
of priorities' would be counter-
productive."
Talk has begun
about placing
rabbinical students
with the federation
as interns.
In one of its strongest mes-
sages of how money should or
should not be sent, the draft re-
port insists that Jewish identity
must be built through both on-
going "formative" experiences,
such as family life, Jewish school-
ing and summer camps, and
through "transformative" expe-
riences such as Israel trips.
"We see a tendency in conti-
nuity to value transformative
over formative, to put the big
bucks on the singular experi-
ences," said Joseph Reimer, di-
rector of the Hornstein Program
in Jewish Communal Service at
Brandeis University, summariz-
ing the report of the working
group he helped lead.
'We're pleading with planners
of Jewish continuity to find the
right balance between formative
and transformative. The forma-
tive takes that moment of high
intensity and turns it into a reg-
ularized part of our Jewish life,"
Mr. Reimer said.
In its introduction, the report
cited several broad requirements
for advancing the Jewish conti-
nuity agenda.
They include:
* "Vigorous advocacy to make
and maintain Jewish identity-
and community-building as pri-
ority concerns."