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FRANCHI MENOTTI
Milan
In Israel, conflict between
different groups of Jews is on
the increase. But in this coun-
try, Reform and Conservative
Jews are coming together for a
more active social action agen-
da.
That was the theme of a
conference this week in Wash-
ington that brought together
65 activists representing the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the central Re-
form group, and the United
Synagogue of Conservative Ju-
daism, whose name speaks for
itself.
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The idea was to give congre-
gational social action leaders
the tools they need to mobilize
their membership on issues
of economic and social justice,
said Mark Pelavin, associate di-
rector of the Religious Action
Center of Reform Judaism.
"At most synagogues, there
is strong support for social ac-
tion programming," he said.
"The real challenge is getting
people mobilized. How do you
make social action an integral
part of every aspect of syna-
gogue life? That's the issue be-
ing addressed at this
conference."
Sarrae Crane, director of so-
cial. action and public policy for
the USCJ, agreed.
"Over the past two years
we've seen a tremendous
increase in interest in our
congregations," she said. 'We re-
ally saw that when the
black churches started to
burn; our phones were ring-
ing nonstop because people
wanted to help respond to this
problem."
She said that the two move-
ments agree on enough social
issues to forge an ongoing
partnership — although they
disagree on homosexuality.
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