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particularly if they are immigrant
communities, a common geogra
phy, living in the same territory,
under the same government, a
common cultural and econmic set
up, serves on the contrary as a
unifying force. Thus one can
speak, if only in a limited sense
of such an entity as American
Jewry, and even more so, of an
Israeli Jewry. In both cases there
is a common environment, a pres
ent sharing of conditions and
circumstances by the entire popu
lation, which influences the think
ing and feeling of that population,
no matter how diffierent the past
history of its various components.
From this bird’s-eye viewpoint
of the immediate and present
geographic, economic and cultural
milieu which serve to unite all
Israelis and all American Jews
internally, while keeping the two
Jewries apart, it may be said that
most Israelis regard American
Jewry as the “rich uncle” who
provides much of the funds neces
sary to bring in immigrants and
to build up the country. The atti
tude towards this “rich uncle” is
usually ambivalent. At times Is
raelis praise him for his lavish
contribution, and take pride in
the power and prestige of Ameri
can Jewry, while at other times
they criticize him for what they
regard as his vulgar display of
affluence when he comes here as
a tourist, for the conformist and
assimilatory tendencies in Ameri
can Jewish life, for the estrange
ment of American Jewish student
youth from Israel and so forth.
But the American Jewish tour
ist on his side also displays an
ambivalent attitude toward Is
rael. He sees the energy, the en
thusiasm, oftimes the idealism,
with which the country is being
built and developed, and likes it.
Besides the personal complaints of
tourists there is also a more gen
eral complaint which has to do
with the whole social structure of
Israel. Israeli members of the in
telligentsia are apt to regard up
start middle-class vulgarity as
the besetting sin of American
Jewry, (“Did they have to spend
five million dollars on a Reform
Temple near Chicago, just because
the architect of that Temple got
publicity in Time magazine?”) I
was recently asked. The more in
telligent American Jews who
come here see Israel’s besetting
sin as greed for political power.
They see nine parties represented
in the Knesset, the Parilament, of
this tiny country, they see the
power politics engaged in by
Orthodox politicians, rabbinical
and lay, they hear of the politi
cal party division in the Hista-
drut, divisions Which parallel the
Government parties, and they
even read of rival sport organiza-
t i o n s established by various
parties. Lately they even heard of
a big political graft scandal in
volving a religious party. All this
political fragmentation, they ar
gue, though it may have originat
ed in honest ideological differ-
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Brookhaven
4110 Peachtree Road, N.W.
Phone CE. 3-7938
N. E. Plasa Shopping Center
3343 Buford Highway, N.E.
Phone ME. 6-5294
Briarcllff Shopping Center
Corner of Briarcliff and
Clairmont
Phone 634-2795
Toco Hills Shopping Center
Corner North Druid Hills
and La Vista Rds.
Phone ME. 6-4922
Gresham Plata Shopping
Center
2541 Gresham Road, S.E.
Phone DR. 8-0484
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