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Turning toward Israel, he said the
influence of the Orthodox in the
Israeli government has become a
regrettably "divisive issue."
"When Israel is faced by external
enemies and other pressures, to be
concerned about the divisiveness of
the Jewish people along religious lines
makes the attempt to survive more
difricult.
We live in a democratic age and
there are many expressions to perpetu-
ate Judaism, to identify yourself as a
Jew, and I think liberal interpretation
of Judaism is entirely justified to be
part of the Jewish scene in Israel," he
said. "There should not be a monop-
oly on one religion only"
He sees fault on both sides.
"I do not see how you can serve
God by throwing stones at people that
are bare-armed or maybe driving a car
on Shabbat through a certain neigh-
borhood," he said. "It would also
behoove our people to respect the
beliefs of the more traditional Jews by
not goading them into extremism."
In addition to the inter religious
issues facing Israel, a racial issue needs
to be solved, Rabbi Conrad said.
Yemenite and Moroccan Jews have
experienced social and economic dis-
crimination, which is gradually being
overcome by education and intermar-
riage, he said.
The problems of "15,000 Ethiopian
Jews who claimed to be of Jewish
descent, but were forced to convert to
Christianity, now want to come back,"
he said. "I would hope they would be
taken back."
A staunch supporter of the ongoing
Detroit newspaper strike, he notes
that Israel also has labor problems.
Citing the strong labor movement
in early Israeli history under David
Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and
Histadrut — he said since Menachem
Begin became prime minister, "a more
capitalistic emphasis has taken place,
and you'll find more strikes and dis-
putes than ever before. "On the other
hand," he added, "the capitalism has
been thriving in many ways and the
economy is doing well.
Growing up in Berlin, Germany,
Rabbi Conrad said he wanted to
become a rabbi since his bar mitzvah.
Raised as Conservative, his mother
sent him to America after Kristalnacht
("The Night of the Broken Glass").
She died in Auschwitz.
"The more the Nazis tried to hurt
us," he said, "the more I wanted to
know what it took to be a Jew, what it
means to be a Jew." ri

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