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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."