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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1984 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
postoricils, opinions, etc
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Israel After Elections
Outsiders to Israel’s political process may have
viewed in awe the method in which the Jewish State
conducts its parliamentary elections. There were more
than a dozen political parties vying for a seat in the
Knesset, some large, others small, each professing to
represent someone somewhere, and each having an
ideological viewpoint, from the left to the extreme
rightwing.
But Israel’s elections, with the ruling Likud
Government receiving more votes than anticipated and
the opposition Labor Party not faring as well as
expected, provides additional, if at all needed, evidence
of Israel’s viable and flourishing democracy.
Israelis and Arabs went to cast their ballots whether
the polls were located in Tel Aviv or East Jerusalem.
The soldiers cast their ballots under an army policy
which states that “if a soldier can’t get to the polls, the
polls will get to the soldiers.” And it did.
There remains a wide range of issues from the
economy to tensions within the social structure of Israel
that were debated throughout the campaign.
Whichever party — Likud or Labor — that is able to
muster the necessary support from the smaller parties
to form a coalition, they will indeed have their hands
full.
The occupation of south Lebanon, the need for a
resolution of the Arab-Israeli dispute, the West Bank
and the Palestinian issue, need to be immediately
addressed and with firm resolve. After the elections
and after the bargaining for coalition partner-
ships is finished, the true challenge to Israel’s
democratic system will begin.
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Between You and Me
Jewish Communal Notes
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief-emeritus, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1984, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.]
COMMUNAL NOTES: Los Angeles
today has the second largest Jewish
community in the United States. It has a
Jewish population of more than 500,000,
which is more than 40 percent of the
number of Jews in New York City and
twice as many Jews than in Chicago,
which was in the pre-war years the second
largest Jewish community.
strength, the Jewish community in Los
Angeles is proud of its leadership and its
achievements, as well of the contribu-
tions it is aiming to American Jewry in
general.
Commercial aviation has made it
possible to reach Los Angeles in a few
hours from the east coast or from the
midwest. Unlike in the pre-war years,
when coast-to-coast travel was more
time-consuming and tiresome, Los An-
geles is no longer a “remote” Jewish
community far from New York and other
centers of pulsating Jewish life. Also,
industrial projects have brought into the
city many hundreds of thousands of new
residents in the post-war years, includ-
ing tens of thousands of Jews.
One such contribution is the School of
Jewish Communal Service created in 1969
by the Hebrew Union College [HUC] in
Los Angeles to help meet the needs of
American Jewish community agencies in
qualified profession personnel. The school
has a “double edge” program. In
cooperation with the Los Angeles Jewish
Federation-Council it provides its grad-
uates with two Master degrees simul-
taneously — one, Master of Arts in Jewish
Communal Service issued by the HUC
school, and the other, a Master of Social
work bestowed by the University of
Southern California. The program re-
quires two summers and two academic
years in residence.
Courses are taken at both USC and
HUC concurrently. Two years of
supervised field work are required and
are administered cooperatively by the
facilities of both schools.
Los Angeles has grown and with it also
its Jewish communal life. Jewish activities
in the city have now an impact on
communal programs of American Jewry
in every field — political, religious, fight
for civil right and against anti-Semi-
tism, fund-raising and education. The
Jewish Federation in Los Angeles today is
no longer a slumbering body; it is one of
the most active Jewish Federations in the
country. Its activities have strong
reverberations in Israel; in the fight for
Jewish rights in the Soviet Union and for
free emigration of Jews from there; in
efforts to bring out the Jews from
Ethiopia where they have been living in
actual slavery for several thousands of
years.
Graduates are now working in over 60
cities in nearly every Jewish setting. This
is a great contribution of Los Angeles
Jewry to the American Jewish community
which is always in need of quali-
fied professional personnel in view of the
growing scope and complexity of the
organized Jewish communities and the
greater sophistication of the services they
are providing. In addition to the “doubles
degrees” the School of Jewish Commun-
al Service offers also Master degrees in
Jewish education.
A unique program at the school is
designed to encourage graduates to work
in Israel. Through the generosity of
anonymous donors, loans owed to the
school can be repaid as follows:30 percent
by one year of service in a communal
THE LOS ANGELES CONTRIBU-
TION: Growing from strength to
See Smolar Page 18
Monitor
Political Potpourri
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BY MIKE ROSENBERG
JERUSALEM — The 11th
Knesset election remains
unresolved — but it has
already prompted calls for
electoral reforms before
Israelis go to the polls again.
Thirteen small parties won
Knesset seats and — with
the exception of Meir Ka-
hane’s Kach and two pro-
PLO parties — all remain
potential kingmakers as the
process of forming a new
government wears on.
man won just over 24 million
votes against nearly 22
million for Thomas E.
Dewey. But there were two
other contenders, Strom
Thurmand and Henry Wal-
lace ...” Under Israel's
system, they would have
Eytan favors a “grand
coalition” of Labor and
Likud. That coalition would
have 85 seats and would be
immune to pressure from
the various small parties.
been able to gang up with
Dewey to form a coali-
tion ... conditions, of
course.” He also recalled
1968 when candidates Rich-
ard Nixon and Hubert
One Israeli, former
Foreign Ministry Director,
Walter Eytan, contrasted
Israel’s system with its
American counterpart. “In
1948,” he wrote in the
Jerusalem Post “Harry Tru-
Humprey “ran neck and
neck with over 31 million
popular votes each, the
former leading by just half a
million. At the same time,
George Wallace captured
almost 10 million votes:
“What could he “not have
done with these under
Israel’s system?”
A unity government
would solve Israel’s immed-
iate problem but, for the
long term, an electoral
system overhaul is essential.
It will rate high on the
agenda of Labor and Likud
should the two parties join
forces in the 11th Knesset.
election to the Knesset of
Rabbi Meir Kahane. Ka-
hane, who favors the expul
sion of Arabs from Israel a:
well as a ban on “sexuall
relations” between the two
groups, celebrated his vict-
ory by leading a car-smash-
ing spree into heavily Arab
east. Jerusalem on election
night. He says that there
will be more anti-Arab
provocations in the future.
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Fanning Racism
The next Knesset is also
likely to consider legislation
banning racist provocation.
The need for such legislation
came to the fore with the
Kanane’s election stunned
Israelis of every political
stripe. Labor and Likud
leaders — including Mena-
chem Begin in one of his rare
public statements — con-
demned Kahane and his
followers. Minister of Inter-
Mi
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