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Strives For Unity

RUTH E. GRUBER
Special to The Jewish News

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taly's small, ancient and highly
diversified Jewish community
has been so rocked recently by
internal tensions over who is i ml
Jew and what is Judaism that some
feared it could be split apart.
The crisis pitted increasingly mili-
tant religious traditionalists against the
non-observant and, as such, mirrored
trends evident throughout the Jewish
world.
The 35,000-strong community,
however, appears to have emerged
from its policy-making congress this
month with a renewed commitment
to compromise that leaders hope will
enable different religious trends and
traditions to coexist under an umbrella
of unity

"Too few
to split up."

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"Sometimes, crises create their own
antibodies," Tullia Zevi, the outgoing
president of the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities, said in an inter-
view.
Said Francesco Spagnolo, director
of a Jewish music study center in
01
Milan, "There are too few of us to
split up."
The quadrennial congress, which
met here from June 21 to 23, elected a
new governing board that is expected
at its July 13 meeting to name Venice-
based Amos Luzzatto to replace Zevi,
who stepped down after an unprece-
dented four terms as president.
Luzzatto, editor of a prestigious
Jewish scholarly review, is a choice
that appeals to a broad range of fac-
tions within the community.
He is a respected secular intellectual
who, at the same time, has a profound
knowledge of Jewish religious tradi-
tions and is descended from a promi-
nent rabbinic family.
A flash point of the recent tensions
among Italy's Jews was controversy
over the conversion of young children
of mixed marriages.
Italian Jewry is Orthodox. There
are no Reform or Conservative con-

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Ruth Gruber is a reporter for the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency