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Rabbinical Assembly Head Urges
Creation Of Central, Democratic,
Policy Making National Jewish Body
* GROSSINGERS, N.Y. (JTA)
"| — Urging the creation of a cen-
; trai, democratic deliberative
I national Jewish organization
| that can make definitive policy
for all of American Jewry, Rabbi
^ Mordecai Waxman said that
■o while there are three
B organizations — the Conference
m of Presidents of Major American
— Jewish Organizations, the
Synagogue Council, and the
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds — no one of
them is completely represen
tative of American Jewry.
Making his presidential ad
dress at the 76th annual conven
tion of the Rabbinical Assembly
which opened Sunday and con
tinued through Thursday, Rabbi
Waxman said:
“In none of these bodies is a
considered, coherent, democratic
policy worked out for the
American Jewish * community.
We need a broad-based organiza
tion which represents the
organized community and can
make policy and speak with
authority. I feel that the syn
agogue community should in
itiate the process of creating
such a body and make sure that
the religious bodies which are
concerned with the tone, the
quality and the character of
Jewish life take their part in
determining the future of
American Jewish life.”
Stating that “fortunately,
we seem to bumble along,” the
rabbi from Great Neck, New
York, said that “the American
Jewish community needs
something better.” Discussing
the three central organizations
that now perform some aspect
of policy making, Rabbi Wax-
man said:
“The Presidents Conference
presumably represents the
Jewish community to the
American government, the
United Nations and to the non-
Jewish world on matters
relating to Israel and some
issues of international concern.
Nevertheless, it almost never
discusses policy, is almost
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always reactive and rarely in
itiative, and is a body whose ac
tions and timing are largely
determined by the generally able
mart who Is its president. Since
it is an umbrella organization, it
must operate by a sort df consen
sus and avoid division. But like
most umbrellas, this umbrella
‘functions best when the sun is
shining.”
Calling the Synagogue Council
“another umbrella
organization,” Rabbi Waxman
said that- it is “a reasonable
representative Sf the Jewish
religious community in
ecumenical relations and is do
ing a fine job in its policy in
stitute of raising issues and
processing data."
Admitting that it provides a
setting for rabbinic and lay
religious bodies to get together,
he lamented that “the price of
that association is undefined but
recognized limits of policy and
action. The veto is as potent a
weapon in the Synagogue Coun
cil as it is in the United Nations
and so broader issues of policy
escape us.” He urged that its role
“where the rabbinic and syn
agogue community can develop”
be expanded.
Calling the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds
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“a powerful body v hich largely
guides the distribution of the
money raised by the American
Jewish community,” he com
plained that “the synagogue and
the rabbinate as collective bodies
have little role or input in it
although it is made up of
members of synagogues and in
dividual rabbis.”
Stating that in recent years
the Council “is certainly more
Jewish in tone, far more Israel
oriented than it was in the past,”
the retiring leader of the Conser
vative rabbinate complained
that the largest body of
American Jews, the religious
bodies “have little to do with
determining its policies on con
trolling the distribution of funds
which in turn maktP-fiplicy.”
Stanley Rabinowitz, rabbi of the
Adas Israel Congregation in
Washington, was elected presi
dent of the Rabbinical
Assembly.
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