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...Some of the unjustified criticism directed at Mr...
...We always had critics...
...You may have designed your own bar or bat mitzvah invitation...
...But if it is true that our people are facing new dangers, we must not fail to react with vigor and reason...
...AIPAC takes strong exception to Bruzonsky's charges and seriously questions his understanding of AIPAC's work—and beyond that, his understanding of U.S...
...Whatever you have done, or developed, we would like to know about it...
...Under the guidance of its master, Ludwig Wol-pert, and his associate, Moshe Zabari, the Tobe Pascher Workshop is responsible for a whole genre of sacral objects in scores of homes and synagogues in the United States and Canada...
...For 20 years the Jewish Museum has housed the only workshop and school devoted exclusively to the design and execution of Jewish ceremonial objects in the modern style...
...It strengthened the hand of the Administration in dealing with the Arabs—in repelling the excessive demands by Sadat—whose own "intransigence" had been fortified by the American reverses in Indochina...
...Bruzonsky blames/credits AIPAC for the May 1975 letter to President Ford signed by 76 Senators...
...These were issues—there were others— which AIPAC could not afford to ignore...
...Ford's name consistently appeared on roundro-bins and sense-of-congress resolutions which gained many sponsors...
...There are its pieces in the Truman Museum in Independence, and the Jewish Chapel in the Air Force Academy is entirely furnished by Wol-pert...
...The moment article complains that AIPAC's policies have been counterproductive and that Israel is losing ground...
...AIPAC is accused by Bru-onsky as being "ruthless...
...While promulgating a modern view of ritual, it also sponsors the modern designs of ritual objects...
...President Ford understood the procedure perfectly and was always helpful and never regarded it as inappropriate...
...Additional scores of objects are owned and have been exhibited not only in the Jewish Museum, but also the Museum of Modern Art, B'nai B'rith Museum in Washington, Spertus Museum in Chicago, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and on the West Coast in the Skirball and Judah Magnes Museums...
...He preferred to address his remarks to a Zionist convention...
...The Administration was then stimulating a barrage of criticism at Israel, blaming her alleged "intransigence" for the stalemate in the negotiations...
...Indeed, on October 13, 1973, Mr...
...He insinuates that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's current efforts to improve relations between Washington and Jerusalem have actually hurt Israeli and American Jewish interests...
...A wavering in the U.S...
...Ford called AIPAC to express his regret that he was unable to lead a list of Israel's supporters since he was no longer the Republican floor leader...
...The fact is, as I can testify, that Candidate Kennedy rejected the proposal that he make his pro-Israel speech on national television...
...Congress has consistently sought to overcome the pro-Arab tilt in the State Department which persisted for many years...
...Both the presidential candidates emphasized their strong support for Israel in their debate over national television...
...Leonard J. Davis Director of Information American Israel Public Affairs Committee To the Editor: As chairman of the Jewish Museum throughout the tenures of Stephen Kayser and Alan Solomon, I should like to add a facet which Freudenheim's excellent article (The (Jewish) Jewish Museum, November 1976) omits...
...I had just retired from AIPAC's chairmanship but I expressed the view that the letter of 76 senators was an appropriate and necessary contribution to the so-called "reassessment...
...It should be emphasized that there have been a number of major clashes since 1974, such as the reckless proliferation of sophisticated weapons to the Arab states and the Administrations's reluctance to join in the battle against the Arab boycott...
...My successor, Morris Amitay, came into office at a critical moment...
...We hope that you will share your ideas and experiences with the rest of us in Catalog...
...This alternative 0 the "reassessment" was mere-y an attempt to impose the origi-lal "reassessment" plan piece-neal...
...commitment to Israel is always dangerous because it sends the wrong signs to the Arabs and the Soviets...
...in The Jerusalem Post testifies: "They (AIPAC) are skillful and careful...
...Or you may have a plan for building ritual objects, cooking Jewish foods, or establishing a program for Jewish study in your community...
...But the actual record shows that AIPAC has won wide respect on Capitol Hill, as the recent statement by Sen...
...What is significant is result and there is no question that support for Israel has gained in the last two years...
...He says the letter effectively blocked Secretary of State Kissinger's "reassessment" of Middle East policy...
...He addressed a number of AIPAC policy conferences, and Mr...
...The platforms of both political parties were clear and well defined on Middle East issues and many local congressional candidates adhered to their party declarations...
...Please send your contributions to our Editorial Office, moment, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, Mass., 02160...
...It brings craftsmen into the field who study the origin and history of the ceremonies behind the objects and so create designs often more Jewishly traditional than the "traditional" copies of copies, of copies of Gothic and Baroque pieces...
...Tom, when he was curator of Judaica at the Museum, was a warm and enthusiastic supporter of the Workshop and both Wol-pert and Zabari...
...But we always took the view that if our cause was just, we should not hesitate to state our views firmly...
...I.L...
...they know when to try hard and when to use the soft-touch...
...Thus, friends of Israel in he Congress were compelled to [>ppose those measures as well...
...And so would the readers of this magazine...
...Bruzonsky himself reports that following the Administrations's failure to implement the planned reassessment," the Secretary of tate was forced to resort to pressure-by-pressure" tactics, fhis new policy was manifested y attempts to whittle away for-ign assistance for Israel and by proposals to sell vast supplies of ffensive weaponry to Israel's ^rab neighbors...
...Specific reference is made to the roundrobin in which 76 senators recommended that we continue to support Israel in our "reassessment" of American policy...
...The Department of State opposed Israel's establishment from the very beginning and for many years it was hostile to Israel's request for aid...
...LETTERS To the Editor: Mark Bruzonsky's doomsday article in moment (Perspective: Waiting on Washington, November 1976) has been effectively refuted by the recent campaign and election...
...We always had some opposition on the Hill...
...There is nothing new or unprecedented in multi-sponsored resolutions...
...The field is wide open...
...Contrast this with the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate when the two candidates spoke about Quemoy and Matsu, two remote islands in the Pacific...
...CATALOG REMINDER We want to remind our readers of Catalog, a department that consists of practical advice for Jewish living written by moment's readers for sharing with the rest of the moment community...
...Bruzonsky conveniently forgets to mention that the "reassessment" put an effective six-month embargo on new U.S.Israeli arms contracts and delayed the submission to Congress of a new foreign aid bill...
...We revived the lobby on Capitol Hill in 1951 precisely because the Department was opposed to economic aid for Israel out of excessive solicitude for Arab reaction...
...On the contrary, there had to be vigorous and effective opposition...
...Tell us about it...
...Perhaps you have established your own family library or record collection...
...He motes an unnamed Senate aide is saying that AIPAC "does with 1 sledgehammer what should be ione with a stilleto...
...Throughout his career in Congress, as I wrote in the Near East Report of August 14, 1974, he was among the leaders of those who sought to strengthen Israel, who sought to oppose Egypt's Nasser, and the record is clear...
...send us a sample...
...Bruzonsky bemoans the "reassessment" threatened to destabilize the Middle East by weakening Israel diplomatically and militarily, and by inflating Arab expectations...
...Abram Kanof Raleigh, North Carolina...
...This was unprecedented...
...Kenen Editor Emeritus Near East Report To the Editor: In a recent article in your publication, Mark Bruzonsky predicts dire times for Israel in terms of U.S.-Israeli relations...
...Amitay has to do with alleged changes in style...
...Richard Stone (D-Fla...
...policy in the Middle East...
...How did you go about it...
...Thus, Zionists promoted the pro-Zionist American Palestine Committee as far back as 1941 when 68 senators and more than 200 members of the House called for a Jewish national homeland...
...This is one venture in which Conservative Judaism can rejoice...
...To overcome opposition we always tried to mobilize support on the Hill...

Vol. 2 • September 1981 • No. 4


 
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