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families spent several hours on a
joint tour of the Hulah project.
Both parents and children took
part in the outing, which was the
first secular-religious social event.
It had been preceded by a series
of discussions that began in the
wake of Rabin's assassination,
when it became clear that some-
thing had to be done to open chan-
nels of communication between
these two sections of Israeli soci-
ety.
Among those responsible for
initiating the discussions was
Hana Manne, an Orthodox Eng-
lish immigrant who is chief psy-
chologist in the Psychiatric
Department of Safed's Sieff Hos-
pital. Though Hana long enjoyed
cordial relations with her non-re-
ligious colleagues, she always
avoided discussing cntroversial
issues with them lest the result-
ing disagreements undermine
their friendship.
"But after the Rabin assassi-
nation," says Hana, "I felt that this
`head in the sand' approach was
no longer tenable, that contro-
versial issues had to be addressed
and misunderstandings ironed
out." Her secular friends agreed,
and enthusiastically cooperated
in the establishment of a religious-
secular discussion group that has
subsequently met at various
places in the Upper Galilee.
Participants don't take up hot-
ly disputed issues per se; instead
they read and analyze classic texts
with relevance to contemporary
dilemmas, and then confront
those dilemmas from their own
particular viewpoint. At the first
meeting, held in Kiryat Shmoneh,
they discussed an introduction to
the Book of Genesis written by
Rabbi Naphtali Zvi Yehuda
Berlin. In it Rabbi Berlin points
to the damage that was done by
men who, though observant, were
guilty of sinat hinam (baseless ha-
tred), as the result of which the
Second Temple was destroyed.
This moved on to a discussion of
possible conflicts between democ-
racy and Halacha, with some of
the secular participants express-
ing the fear that democracy in this
country might be subordinated to
Halacha.
At a later meeting held at Kib-
butz Neot Mordechai, the bond
between Jewry and the land of Is-
rael was examined in the wake of
readings from the Ramban and
from a Labor Zionist writer of the
early 20th century, Yosef Haim
Brenner. Afterwards, there were
sharp differences of opinion, par-
ticularly in regard to whether
Jews are permitted to forego por-
tions of Eretz Israel. But whatev-
er disagreements were expressed
in the course of the discussion, at
the end — when the time came to
drink kibbutz tea and eat some
strictly kosher chocolate cake —
you could feel that there was real
warmth in the room. That in it-
self is an achievement in today's
sharply divided Israeli society. El