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"like a trade association, serving — or
servicing — its member agencies."
But, he added, JCPA should not back
away from positions to seek universal
support. "We are not Goodwrench,"
he said, "and the Torah, the U.S.
Constitution, or even the JCPA
Agenda for Public Affairs are not 'how
to' manuals."
At a Mideast peace process briefing,
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Dr.
Ephraim Sneh said that despite delays
on negotiations with Syria and the
Palestinians, progress is coming and
that will entail a push for massive con-
gressional aid. Many analysts say that
_upwards of $20 billion will be sought
to bolster Israeli defenses if there is a
withdrawal from the Golan Heights.
"If there is a way that you can have
a very substantive contribution to the
peace process, it's by exerting pressure
here in what I know are very difficult
legislative circumstances," he said.
And if the negotiations do fail, he
said, "the government of Israel, the
prime minister, one day will look in
the eyes of soldiers who may have to
go to war, and we want to be able to
say that we did our best, that we did
everything possible — except compro-
mise the vital interests of Israel."
He also plugged a post-peace
process U.S.-Israeli Jewish relation-
ship. "Even today, more and more
Israelis are talking about how to live a
pluralistic Jewish lifestyle in an open
society," he said. "We will need to
learn more and more from you how to
conduct such a Jewish life."
With keynote speaker Dr. Arnold
Eisen of Stanford University, the
group surveyed the American Jewish
landscape. The unprecedented free-
dom of modern American society,
which has allowed Jews previously
unattainable wealth, education and
political importance, he said, is
blessing and curse rolled into one.
"Jewish survival without Torah is
pointless," he said, "although I oppose
anyone who advises only one path to
Torah."
That challenge is made more diffi-
cult because Jews "live in a society that
doesn't value tradition, except as nos-
talgia," added Dr. Eisen.
American Jews, he said, must not
get caught up in labels like "liberal"
and "conservative, "left" and "right."
Conservatives favor authority, "and
that's not a bad thing." And while
he values autonomy and detests
coercion, Dr. Eisen said he sees
"unchanneled liberalism" as a "quick
fix" of the moment.
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