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...that so many American Jews also seem to approve of Menachem Begin-and are channeling contributions to Israel at a steady rate? For one thing, he is the only Premier Israel happens to have at the moment, and U.S. Jews do not want to weaken his position. Says Rabbi Schindler: "The American Jewish community isn't pledged to him or all his policies. We're pledged to the security of Israel." Moreover, many U.S. Jews may be impressed by the fact that liberal and moderate Israelis are themselves rapidly revising their once hostile views of the new Premier...
...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...
Vance, Brzezinski, Jordan and Stuart Eizenstat, the White House Issues Coordinator, invited individual Jewish leaders to meetings or lunches, fielding their complaints and assuring them that they had nothing to fear from Carter. Mondale had half a dozen meetings with, among others, Schindler and Hyman Bookbinder, the Washington chief of the American Jewish Committee. Although the Vice President had done what one of his staffers called "a lot of reassuring," that was not quite enough. As one of the Jewish leaders dryly noted: "He's not the President...
...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...