H-Net* A Map Of Zionism In America And Russia
Posted By: justin Date: Monday, 22 October 2001, at 6:54 p.m.Bill White Commentary -- I got a copy today of JJ Goldberg's book Jewish Power. Rather than repeat all the information offered, I thought I would provide an overview and some links, and allow readers to confirm all this for themselves. For those who don't believe that the various Zionist and religious-Jewish organizations come together to generate policy, you have obviously not heard (as I hadn't) of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. Let me allow Mr Goldberg, who is a journalist in Israel and America, and who is editor of the Jewish community magazine Forward, to describe this group to you: "The council, known by the Jaw Breaking title of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, or NCRAC (pronounced "nacrac"), is nothing less than the central policy making council of the organized American Jewish community. Its membership includes a dozen of the most powerful and broadly representative groups on the national Jewish scene: the three main synagogue unions, Reform, Conservative, and Orothodox; the three main "defense agencies," Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, and American Jewish Congress; and the three largest Jewish women's groups, Hadassah, the National Council on Jewish Women, and Women's American ORT. Also included, along with a handful of other national bodies, are 117 local community councils, representing the world of Jewish federated charities and their donors."Ah. And what do these groups do? Mr Goldberg tells us: "MCRAC's policy positions are hammed out in intense, year-long negotiations among the agencies, then boted on at the council's annual assembly and published each fall in a booklet, the Joint Program Plan. ... The eighty-four page plan for 1992 included, along with ten pages on Israel and eight pages on anti-Semitism in Russia and the Arab world, no less than six pages on public- school education, six pages on abortion rights and the status of women, four pages on poverty, three pages each on immigration policy, federal courts, and universal health care, and four pages on the environment." So what is being said is that ALL THE JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN AMERICA REALLY DO MEET ONCE A YEAR AND DECIDE ON A JOINT POLITICAL PLATFORM. Wow. :-O I am still trying to absorb that. In my recent article for Pravda on the Jewish lobby, someone told me that the Jewish lobby in America didn't have an official position on gun control. Mr Goldberg disagrees, stating, "The 1994 plan added teo pages entitled 'Gun Control and Violence,' plus a four page section titled 'Constitutional Protections in a Pluralistic Democracy.' These protections addressed issues ranging from the death penalty and homosecxual right to term limits, campaign- finance reform, and congressionaln redistricting." So American Jewry, meaning all the synagogues and all the formal Jewish power structure, actually does have a written program which it issues each year and which all organizations adhere to. So if you are wondering why, say Orthodox Jewish congregations are not active on issues like abortion and homosexuality with conservative Christian churches, it is because they have coordinated with all the other Jewish community groups in America not to be active on those issues. And if you are wondering why you see all the Jewish organizations working together on issues like undermining the Second Amendment and banning guns, it is because ALL JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY MEET ANNUALLY TO DECIDE WHAT TO THINK ON THESE ISSUES. Wow. I keep putting that in capitals because it blows me away. Those who would like to read Mr Goldberg's book, in which he goes into detail on how Jewish organizations did a lot of things, from blocking pro-Christian educational legislation to forcing George Bush Sr out of office, you can buy this book here: http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp? userid=0ECNF1A6SImscssid HUB0V7SLNB9K8PW2P4H5244KFWB5DEACisbn=0201327988 Now Mr Goldberg does point out that not all Jews follow this line. "The NCRAC agenda provokes widespread resentment among Jewish activists at the grassroots." In particular, he points to a growing racist movement among Jews that want NCRAC to denounce blacks as the course of crime in America, and wants NCRAC to recognize that "Islam [is] the enemy of Judaism". Sounds like a pleasant group of folks.Let's hear what one rabbi has to say about abortion in the Jewish religion in Mr Goldberg's book: "In rabbinic canon law, .. human life does not simply begin at conception. It develops gradually, acquiring greater legal protection as the fetus gains viability. Development continues even after birth, he added paranthetically; an infant that dies before the eighth day does receive a Jewish funeral. "In any case, ... Judaism rules that the morth's needs automatically take precedent until the moment of birth. 'There is ... a moral and ethical basis for a woman to
H-Net* A Map Of Zionism In America And Russia
Posted By: justinDate: Monday, 22 October 2001, at 6:54 p.m. Bill White Commentary -- I got a copy today of JJ Goldberg's book Jewish Power. Rather than repeat all the information offered, I thought I would provide an overview and some links, and allow readers to confirm all this for themselves. For those who don't believe that the various Zionist and religious-Jewish organizations come together to generate policy, you have obviously not heard (as I hadn't) of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. Let me allow Mr Goldberg, who is a journalist in Israel and America, and who is editor of the Jewish community magazine Forward, to describe this group to you:"The council, known by the Jaw Breaking title of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, or NCRAC (pronounced "nacrac"), is nothing less than the central policy making council of the organized American Jewish community. Its membership includes a dozen of the most powerful and broadly representative groups on the national Jewish scene: the three main synagogue unions, Reform, Conservative, and Orothodox; the three main "defense agencies," Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, and American Jewish Congress; and the three largest Jewish women's groups, Hadassah, the National Council on Jewish Women, and Women's American ORT. Also included, along with a handful of other national bodies, are 117 local community councils, representing the world of Jewish federated charities and their donors." Ah. And what do these groups do? Mr Goldberg tells us:"MCRAC's policy positions are hammed out in intense, year-long negotiations among the agencies, then boted on at the council's annual assembly and published each fall in a booklet, the Joint Program Plan. ... The eighty-four page plan for 1992 included, along with ten pages on Israel and eight pages onanti-Semitism in Russia and the Arab world, no less than six pages on public- school education, six pages on abortion rights and the status of women, four pages on poverty, three pages each on immigration policy, federal courts, and universal health care, and four pages on the environment."So what is being said is that ALL THE JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN AMERICA REALLY DO MEET ONCE A YEAR AND DECIDE ON A JOINT POLITICAL PLATFORM. Wow. :-OI am still trying to absorb that. In my recent article for Pravda on the Jewish lobby, someone told me that the Jewish lobby in America didn't have an official position on gun control. Mr Goldberg disagrees, stating, "The 1994 plan added teo pages entitled 'Gun Control and Violence,' plus a four page section titled 'Constitutional Protections in a Pluralistic Democracy.' These protections addressed issuesranging from the death penalty and homosecxual right to term limits, campaign- finance reform, and congressionaln redistricting."So American Jewry, meaning all the synagogues and all the formal Jewish power structure, actually does have a written program which it issues each year and which all organizations adhere to. So if you are wondering why, say Orthodox Jewish congregations are not active on issues like abortion and homosexuality with conservative Christian churches, it is because they have coordinated with all the other Jewish community groups in America not to be active on those issues. And if you are wondering why you see all the Jewish organizations working together on issues like undermining the Second Amendment and banning guns, it is because ALL JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY MEET ANNUALLY TO DECIDE WHAT TO THINK ON THESE ISSUES.Wow. I keep putting that in capitals because it blows me away. Those who would like to read Mr Goldberg's book, in which he goes into detail on how Jewish organizations did a lot of things, from blocking pro-Christian educational legislation to forcing George Bush Sr out of office, you can buy this book here:http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=0ECNF1A6SImscssidHUB0V7SLNB9K8PW2P4H5244KFWB5DEACisbn=0201327988Now Mr Goldberg does point out that not all Jews follow this line. "The NCRAC agenda provokes widespread resentment among Jewish activists at the grassroots." In particular, he points to a growing racist movement among Jews that want NCRAC to denounce blacks as the course of crime in America, and wants NCRAC to recognize that "Islam [is] the enemy of Judaism".Sounds like a pleasant group of folks. Let's hear what one rabbi has to say about abortion in the Jewish religion in Mr Goldberg's book:"In rabbinic canon law, .. human life does not simply begin at conception. It develops gradually, acquiring greater legal protection as the fetus gains viability. Development continues even after birth, he added paranthetically; an infant that dies before the eighth day does receive a Jewish funeral."In any case, ... Judaism rules that the morth's needsautomatically take precedent until the moment of birth. 'There is
