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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE

Tough Choices Ahead
For Jewish Leaders

Jewish organizations are slowly
coming to grips with the revolu-
tion now under way in Washing-
ton — a political upheaval
comprised of unprecedented cuts
in government programs mark-
ing an end to the assumption that
government should help the
neediest among us, from inner
city welfare families to elderly
Jews in nursing homes.
A well-disciplined, ideological-
ly committed Republican party is
forcibly repositioning the Amer-
ican political center. Suddenly,
Jewish groups find themselves
supporting cuts and policy
changes that would have seemed
outrageous only a year ago — a
kind of radical preemptive
surgery in response to a cohesive
conservative coalition that is con-
fident of its ability to remake
America in its image.
While Jewish leaders are be-
latedly adjusting to these seismic
shifts, there are gaps in the
process that could pose serious
problems for the Jewish commu-
nity in the months and years
ahead.
The first gap reflects the same
denial that led so many Jewish
leaders to dismiss projections of
big changes in government pro-
grams after the November elec-
tions.
Many communal leaders still
seem to believe that the Repub-
lican congressional takeover was
an aberration — an extreme
swing of the pendulum that will
be followed by a move back to the
gentler policies of the New Deal
and the Great Society.
If they can just hang on for a
year or two, the thinking goes,
and preserve as many of their
programs as possible, things will
return to "normal."
That may be a dangerous mis-
calculation.
Political leaders are dismayed
by the unfocused rage that con-
tinues to grow among voters — a
major reason for the increasing
number of incumbents who will
not seek reelection. Last year,
Democratic incumbents felt their
wrath; in 1996, even Republican
leaders worry about voters who
seem enraged by anything that
smacks of politics or government
as usual.
That fury is being driven by
the long, steady decline in real
wages since the mid-1970s, in-
creasing job insecurity in an era
of corporate "downsizing' and the
overwhelming proportion of
Americans now see their eco-
nomic futures on a downward
course.
Jewish groups still seem to be
planning as if 1994 was a bad
dream. Instead, they need to pre-

pare for the possibility that we
are only at the beginning of a fun-
damental shift away from the
progressive policies of recent
decades.
As government money dries
up, Jewish leaders will need to
convince Jews to give more to
communal organizations — at a
time when the pool of potential
contributors will shrink as the
constricting economy tightens its
grip on the middle class.
They will need to make hard,
controversial decisions about the
proportion of Jewish charitable
dollars going to foreign causes,
and the proportion going into di-
rect social services for Jews in our
own communities — an old de-
bate that will take on new mean-
ing and urgency.
Jewish groups are justifiably
proud of the array of well-run so-
cial services they have created —
a visible manifestation of Jewish
values.
But in this new climate, Jew-
ish leaders will have to look dis-
passionately at their every
program.
Inefficiency and waste cannot
be tolerated; ultimately, even
many good and well-run pro-
grams will have to be sacrificed
to keep alive those that are vital.
Jewish organizations lack struc-
tural mechanisms for that kind
of triage.
Politically, the choices are just
as unpalatable.
Since the mid-1930s, Jewish
consensus positions on the role of
government in social policy were
consonant with national priorities.
Jewish political influence flour-
ished, since the people whose
views were closest to the positions
of most Jews were calling the
shots in Washington.
If Jewish groups continue to
focus primarily on old liberal
coalitions, hoping to hold on un-
til the pendulum swings back the
other way, rather than reaching
out to the nation's new conserv-
ative leadership, the Jewish com-
munity will not have a place at
the table when the government
programs of tomorrow are creat-
ed.
Principles are important. But
Jewish organizations also have a
responsibility to the people they
serve — to the elderly Jews liv-
ing in subsidized housing, to the
disabled, to immigrants and
refugees, to Jews cast aside by
corporate restructuring.
Finding the proper balance be-
tween principles and political
pragmatism will be the most
daunting task facing Jewish lead-
ers as the engine of change in
Washington picks up momen-
tum. ❑

