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Jewish message involved," said
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"There are still so
many people in our
community who ...
are scared of being
shunned."

—Jim Popkin of Detroit

But still, participants at the
Washington conference conced-
ed, AIDS programs supported by
mainstream Jewish groups are
few and far between; AIDS ac-
tivism in the Jewish community
is still dominated by fiercely com-
mitted individuals willing to push
the limits.
Mary Ann Siegel, administra-
tive assistant of the Michigan
Jewish AIDS Coalition, is an ex-
ample. A few years ago, she
worked with a needle exchange
program in Detroit's inner city, a
controversial mode of AIDS ac-
tivism that critics charge con-
dones illicit drug use. "If you think
there were no white, upper-class
Jewish businessmen who pulled
up in their Lincoln Continentals
and exchanged needles, you're
wrong," she told the Washington
conference.
Jewish AIDS groups, she said,
walk a fine line between directly
dealing with the behaviors that
are responsible for most AIDS cas-
es — unprotected sex and intra-
venous drug use — and offending
religious sensibilities.
A few years ago, MJAC dis-
tributed condoms on lollipop
sticks, a graphic message that pro-
duced a backlash both inside and
outside the Jewish community in
Michigan.
"We gave them out carefully,

only to older teen-aged men," she
said. "But we still had hate calls,
including some that were pretty
anti-Semitic. It was a problem for
us."
Today, she said, the group,
stresses abstinence in its educa-
tional efforts, and is working to
enlist the support of rabbis from
all Judaic streams.
"Getting rabbinical support is
very important," said one partic-
ipant. "There are rabbis who are
disinclined to do anything to help
us, right down to the affixing of a
mezuzah in our new office. But
there's also the local rabbi who
told us, two years ago when we
did our first program, that there
were three members of his con-
gregation who were HIV-positive;
last year, he said, there were five."
Getting support from federa-
tions and other mainstream phil-
anthropies is equally difficult —
in part because AIDS prevention
programs often deal with ways to
engage in controversial sexual
practices while minimizing the
risks of infection.
The problem of AIDS education
is particularly acute in the Or-
thodox community, where homo-
sexuality is shunned, and talk of
any safeguard short of total ab-
stinence is taboo.
Tova Ehrlich is a volunteer
with the Tzvi Aryeh AIDS Foun-
dation in New York, a group try-
ing to bring the issue to the
Orthodox and Chasidic commu-
nities. 'What we are trying for is
compassionate understanding,"
she said. "We have referrals for
rabbis who know about the issue,
who are understanding; we visit
people in the hospital and have a
help line where people can call."
Yet Ms. Ehrlich's group, staffed
entirely by volunteers and fund-
ed through nickel-and-dime con-
tributions, steers clear of a Jewish
religious establishment that
shuns their activities.
"We just do what we need to
do," she said. "We make the point
that this is a disease, and there's
no judgment about disease. You
don't tell people who have lung
cancer that they shouldn't have
smoked."
Still, the non-response from Or-
thodox authorities is hard to ig-
nore. "We find it very difficult,"
said Ms. Ehrlich, whose AIDS ac-
tivism began with the death of a
family member from the disease.
"It's like a big wall. There are
cracks in it. But the wall is there."
There are no accurate statistics
about the prevalence of AIDS in
the Orthodox world, she said, be-
cause many people with the dis-
ease go to great lengths to hide it.
The result, she said, is that
many Jews with AIDS are isolat-
ed from their own communities
by fear and shame at a time when
they need community support.
"We just try to keep our heads
down," she said. "It's very much
a one-step-at-a-time kind of
thing." Ell

