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Israel
Shaping Israeli society
BY AVRAHAM BURG THE JERUSALEM POST
The closer we get U) Israel's 50th birthday, the more likely it seems that we may attend this party without a date. Western, particularly U.S., Jewry - our steady companion over the past five deaides - may sit this one out at home.
For a protracted period, we have sadly watched Diaspora Jewry gi-ow further and further away from Israel in light of political and economic developments. In that cx)ntext, the strife of the last few weeks - during which an unyielding religious es-tiiblishment in Israel has thwarted attempts to reach a compit)mi.se which would enable all of the major streams of Judaism to find equal expression within Israeli law - has brought alx)ut a most serioas tliivat to Uie unity of the Jewish people.
In the 50 years since Israel was esUibli.shed, world Jewi-y liits st<KKl by hei' side in moments of exciti^ment and joy, jast as in fear and anxiety. It hasn't always i)wn easy. Often Israel has beiMi a stublK)rn and willful partner, difficult to understand and to make undei-sUmd. But never Ix--fore have the Jews of the world seen the.se "lovei-s' quanels" as a rea.son to give up, to call it quits and let Israel manage on her own. Now, for the fii-st time, and I siiy this with the dee|X'st ix'givt, there are voices calling for an end to the Israel-Diaspora partnei-ship.
Meanwhile, there are other voices calling for courses of action which to my mind are ju.st as iiTelevant. A not(;d American newspaper columnist, a supporter of Israel who I consider a friend, recently suggested that American Jews should stop contributing to the central UJA federated campaign for Israel and instead should put their monies into smaller, single-interest movements in Israel in an effort to influence the nature of Israeli .society.
This reflects a basic misunderstanding of our society. The battle for Israel is not the battle for small changes; it is the battle for the big agenda. And the only way for American -Jewiy to enjoy i-eal religious and scxrial influence over the fabric of Israeli society is thn)Ugh a conceited, cx)llective effort which can exert real, concerted piessure.
Till' I'nited Jewish Ap|)i';il.
and the Jewish Agency for Israel - the major arm through which it operates in Israel - work exactly along the lines that my columnist friend and so many other American Jews want: in support of the new immigiants in their firat steps in Israeli mxi-ety, the closing of educational and social gaps, the settlement of out^ lying regions and the furthering of Jewish education.
The Jewish Agency is also the only organization in Israel in which all of the religious streams of Judaism - the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox - work harmoniously together out of a world view of cooperation and mutual respect. No other organization has doubled its outlay for religioas tolerance in Uiis bud-get^iry year alone, and has committed itself to raise tens of millions of doUai-s for this cau.se in the coming year.
A boycott of the central campaign, therefore, would be .self-defeating. To the contrai-y, the.se are days in which to enhance your spiritual investment in Israel by joining foixx-s to help build the Israel you would like to see.
At the Jewish Agency we are attempting to rewrite the agenda of collective resjxjnsibility, offering a genuine partnei-ship in shaping the future of the Jewish people. Together we are .seeking aaswei-s to the question: I low am the Jewish people sun'ive without an external enemy?
And together we have every rea.son in the world to succeed. After all, who would have believed 50 yeai-s ago that Isiael's population of600,000 would be-l-onie five million, with major accomplishments in almost every field of human endeavor? Who would have Ix'lievc^d a decade ago that we would have been able to rescue and absorb over three-quartere of a million Jews from the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia and every other location ofneed?
I extend an "invitation for involvement" to Jewry in Israel and the Diaspora to be full partners in our collective efforts to build an Israel that is more' open, more pluralistic, tolerant and demcx-ratic.
Avraham Burg is chairman of the Executive of the Jeuish Af;uncy for Israel and the World
Zionist Orgtinizdiioii.