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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE May 30, 1986
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Break silence on Kahane,
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by Ben Gallob
Jewish Telegraphic Agenc\
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An American Orthodox educa
tor has called on Orthodox Jews
everywhere to repudiate Brooklyn-
born Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder
and sole Knesset member of the
Kach Party in Israel, because “when
the good name of Judaism and its
people are continually assaulted,
silence cannot be maintained.”
The proposal was made by Yitz-
chok Adlerstein, who directs the
Jewish Studies program at Yeshiva
University in Los Angeles. He issued
his appeal in an article in a recent
issue of “Sh'ma” magazine, an in
dependent journal of Jewish
thought.
Adlerstein declared that “how
ever distasteful” the tone of some
of Kahane’s rhetoric may be. Or
thodox Jews “do find plenty of his
points unarguable.” In agreement
with Kahane, Adlerstein declared:
“Torah law should become the law
of the (Jewish) State, preserving
our peoplehood by binding the
Divine to all areas of human con
duct, including the waging of war
and limiting sexual partners to our
own people."
But, he added, silence about
Kahane “would imply” that Or
thodox Jews “lack the perspicacity
to firmly reject all that Rabbi
Kahane preaches that is thoroughly
foreign to Torah thought.”
In 1948. Alderstein noted, the
Arab populace of Israel was gua
ranteed rights of citizenship and
due process. "Those who offered
those rights did not consult God,
Rabbi Kahane or Torah Law,” the
educator declared.
The educator said those guaran
tors “were not appointed by world
Jewry but they were, in the eyes of
the non-Jewish world, the voice of
the Jewish conscience." He added:
“Can anyone glibly dismiss the Hil-
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Meir Kahane
lul Hashem (desecration of the
Lord’s name) that repudiating such
rights would cause?’
Adlerstein said that in the debate
touched off by Kahane’s proposal
to deport all Arabs from Israel,
“some merit” has been assumed for
Kahane’s “assumption of a Hala-
chic mandate to rid the Land (of
Israel) of non-Jews.”
It is a fact that Judaism “is not
xenophobic; it extends the right of
residence (in a Jewish State) to
non-Jewish inhabitants who sub
scribe to the fundamental princi
ples of decency and humanity called
the Noachide Laws." Adlerstein
added: “Halachic literature abounds
in affirmation of minority rights to
non-idolatrous peoples in Israel.”
Declaring that Kahane “is cer
tainly entitled to his Halachic
opinion, if he can defend it,” never
theless, given the “grandstanding”
Kahane practices in his politics,
“there comes a point where his
opinion becomes the imposition of
an image of Torah Judaism upon
everyone, including his dissenters.”
Adlerstein asserted that “surely,
Rabbi Kahane is aware that not all
opinions (about Jewish religious
issues) are equally weighted and
the heftier questions are to be left
to greater authorities.” And, Ad
lerstein added, Kahane “cannot
point to a single major Halachic
decisor (he certainly cannot claim
to be one himeself!) who supports
his contentions.” In Jewish exege
sis, a decisor is one qualified to
hand down an opinion on an issue
of Jewish Law.
Adlerstein commented that ”to
be charitable,” Jewish supporters
of Kahane might assume that “much
of what Rabbi Kahane says is
meant to entice the Israeli electo
rate and not for implementation.
Unfortunately, the devastating
effect of his rhetoric on Jews in and
out of Israel is not minimized by
such assumptions.” By Kahane’s
practice of taking pot-shots “at the
sensitivities of the entire non-Jewish
world like some reckless cowboy,
Jewish lives are endangered every
where,” the Jewish educator de
clared.
The educator asserted that
Kahane’s brandishing “G-d Him
self’ as his “six-gun is just plain
poor theology.” Adlerstein asserted
that the Lord “does stand behind
His people but they cannot force
His hand to produce miracles,
neither on the battlefield nor in the
world of realpolitik.”
Adlerstein declared that “it
should come as no surprise that
Rabbi Elazar Shach, the official
mentor of both Agudah and Shas,”
both Orthodox political parties in
Israel, “recently instructed all
Knesset members under his con
trol to dissociate themselves from
any and all legislation introduced
by Kahane, even when they completely
support the legislative intent of
such bills.”
Adlerstein declared that Rabbi
Shach's action was taken on the
premise that Kahane’s attitude of
"the devil with the goyim” must be
“abhorred and rejected. And not
for the protection of our small
interests but for the sake of G-d’s
good name.
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