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...Israeli Premier may not press his luck in matching scriptural references with Carter. Last month, at a meeting with Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren, the President listened as the rabbi cited a biblical passage but then fumbled for the exact English translation. Without missing a beat, Carter finished the verse...
...TIME, June 27). In the last several weeks about 1,000 letters a week urging stronger support for Israel have poured into the White House. Important Senators have chimed in on the same theme. Two weeks ago, when he got a phone call from White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, Rabbi Schindler began to discern a change in mood. Says he: "Then I knew that the question of American-Israeli relations had become a serious political matter, and they weren't treating us as if we were part of a foreign relations department. Carter was beginning to perceive the importance...
...stiffens the back of Israel and raises the expectations of the Arabs, which, once frustrated, will retard rather than bring peace." During a week of buffeting over U.S.-Soviet relations. Jimmy Carter hardly needed that sober assessment of his Middle East policy. But it came last Wednesday from Rabbi Alexander Schindler, one of the 53 Jewish leaders invited to a dialogue with the President at the White House...
...large reason for that access is the persuasiveness of Rabbi Schindler, who has become the most prominent spokesman for America's disparate Jewish groups. As head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, he has to bridge the differences among 32 groups, which have varying degrees of commitment to religion, Zionism and political action. Sometimes he is also a bridge between the U.S. and Israel. Right after the meeting he flew to Israel, where he had a morning conference with Premier Menachem Begin, followed by lunch with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Begin is coming to Washington...
Schindler, 51, who calls himself a moderate but "not a political Zionist," fled Nazi Germany when he was twelve. He earned a Purple Heart as a ski trooper in World War II and graduated from New York's City College before becoming a Reform rabbi. Since 1973 he has been president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for 750 Reform temples that count a membership...