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Rabbi Jacobs' Role
Needs Examination
Allowing JCCs
To Undermine Israel
As a long time member of Temple Israel
and the Association of Reform Zionists of
America, I feel that your recent editorial
("Changing Face Of Reform Judaism','
May 5, page 42), representing Rabbi
Richard Jacobs as a leader of the middle
of the Jewish political spectrum, is a gross
exaggeration.
Rabbi Jacobs serves on the board of J
Street and supports the New Israel Fund,
which are both considered to be out of
touch with the majority of American Jews
and, in some cases, considered pro-Pal-
estinian in their support for the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement.
J Street at first denied and then admit-
ted that it accepted money from George
Soros, the Israel-hating billionaire.
That group has also taken money from
questionable Arab sources such as Saudi
embassy attorney Nancy Dutton and the
Arab American Institute.
For these and many other reasons, the
Union for Reform Judaism board should
reconsider its current choice of Rabbi
Jacobs as its primary spokesperson for
the American Reform movement.
I was deeply dismayed to read Allan
Finkelstein's "commentary" in the Detroit
Jewish News of May 5 (page 43),"JCCs
Must Think Big Picture."
When he says "Big Picture I think
he's really missing the Big Picture, which
is the political ramifications to Israel
from "works of art" which undermine
and isolate Israel politically.
Such works like these don't bring in
the "emotionally and disengaged Jewish
youth" into the "Jewish fold',' as he claims
in his article. In fact, they only push
people further away from feeling con-
nected to Israel and Judaism.
The commentary seems to me a
defensive justification for making a bad
decision, one that I wouldn't want to
have on my conscience. Had I been a
member of the JCC of Manhattan or the
D.C. JCC, I would have terminated my
membership immediately.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv
Loses Euroleague
Netanyahu Tables
Jerusalem Housing
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Maccabi
Tel Aviv basketball team lost the
Euroleague finals in a game that was
moved up several hours so that it would
not be played on Israel's Memorial Day.
Greece's Panathinaikos defeated
Maccabi Tel Aviv, 78-70, in Barcelona,
Spain. More than 5,000 Israelis traveled
to the game.
Maccabi Tel Aviv was bidding for its
first Euroleague title in six years. It has
won four Euroleague titles since 1977.
With Maccabi reaching the Final
Four in April, the league agreed to move
up the start time of the championship
game to 5:30 p.m. after the team said
it would not play if the game coincided
with Yom Hazikaron. The game ended
about 30 minutes before the siren
sounded in Israel heralding the start of
the somber day.
Twenty years ago, the club was
criticized heavily for playing in the
semifinals of the European Final Four
in a game that ended after the start of
Memorial Day in Israel.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The office of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
asked Israel's Interior Ministry to
postpone consideration of two pro-
posed eastern Jerusalem housing
projects last week.
The two projects — 930 hous-
ing units planned in Har Homa and
dozens more in Pisgat Zeev — had
been scheduled to be considered at a
meeting of the ministry's Jerusalem
district planning committee.
Three weeks earlier, the Prime
Minister's Office had asked the
Interior Ministry to postpone discus-
sion of four other housing projects in
eastern Jerusalem.
Israeli newspapers have suggested
that the postponements are an effort
to avoid tension with the Obama
administration, which has clashed
with Israel over the issue of building
in eastern Jerusalem. Netanyahu is
scheduled to visit Washington this
month and offer a peace plan during
an address to the U.S. Congress.
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