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NECHEMIA MEYERS

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

When David Bar-Ilan left as ed-
itor of the Jerusalem Post to be-
come one of Prime Minister
Netanyahu's closest advisers, the
powers at the Post decided that
the time had come for the paper
to move from the right to some-
where near the center of Israeli
politics.
The new editor, 35-year-old
English-born Jeff Barak, prefers
to downplay the changes. He ar-
gues that the paper, very critical
of the. Oslo agreements during
Mr. Bar-Ilan's reign, "is simply
treating the agreements as a fait
accompli, in the same way that
Mr. Netanyahu himself does."
Perhaps that is true, but it is
certainly not the whole truth. The
Post, which once seemed to be-
lieve that Mr. Netanyahu could
do no wrong, has recently been
more than ready to criticize him.
It has had some harsh things to
say about what Mr. Barak terms
"the government's faulty decision-
making processes," as it did about
the prime minister's initial re-
luctance to meet Mr. Arafat and
his handling of the Hasmonean
Tunnel affair. A Post -cartoon, to
give one example, showed Mr. Ne-
tanyahu shoveling out dirt from
the tunnel and tossing it into King
Hussein's face.
Mr. Barak also tries to mini-
mize deviations from the former
editorial policy in regard to the
Orthodox. It's a touchy issue be-
cause observant readers make up
a significant proportion of sub-
scribers. But two recent editori-
als indicate that the paper, while
certainly not anti-religious, is now
more prepared to question the
policies of the religious parties.
On Nov. 19, it warned that the
attempt of such groups to block
the recognition of Reform and
Conservative conversions in Is-
rael "could seriously harm Israel-
Diaspora relations." The Post
went on to state that the religious
parties apparently preferred that
non-Jewish immigrants remain
outside the fold rather than un-
dergo a non-Orthodox conversion.
In that same editorial, the pa-
per took a swipe at the Yisrael
Ba'aliya, the Russian immigrant
party, for supporting the Ortho-
dox on this issue, despite that the
proposed law runs counter to the
interests of some 150,000 non-
Jewish Russian immigrants.
Many of these newcomers, the
Post wrote, "would presumably
be interested in converting to Ju-

Nechemia Meyers writes from
Rehovot, Israel.

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