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Haredi Party Seeks to Remove Pluralism from Jewish World Agenda

May 28, 2010 By Dan Brown

The general feeling around Jerusalem’s Jewish organizational world is that the upcoming meeting of the World Zionist Congress will be either of two extremes – boring, or a bloodbath – and much relates around how Shas, a Sephardic Haredi political party, is received in the WZO.

We’ve written before how the Diaspora member organizations of the WZO, especially the delegates from North America, truly do not understand the profound changes that may come about from the inclusion of a party with a stated goal to lessen the proportional representation in the organization of Diaspora Zionist movements and the various religious streams.

This article by Haviv Rettig Gur, from today’s The Jerusalem Post, offers some insight:

Consternation surrounds Shas joining Zionist group

… At the coming Zionist congress slated to take place in Jerusalem on June 15, Shas will formally begin its membership in the Zionist movement with delegates in proportion to the party’s representation in the Knesset.

But this development has raised concerns in the Zionist institutions, especially from liberal religious movements. According to many Reform and Conservative representatives, Shas’s membership will not be constructive, since the party intends to aggressively work to weaken the influence of non-Orthodox and Diaspora delegations.

It currently plans to present two proposals at the upcoming congress, one that will remove words celebrating Jewish pluralism from the organization’s ideological “Jerusalem program” and another that will lessen the proportional representation in the organization of Diaspora Zionist movements and religious strains.

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  1. Lee Smith says

    May 28, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    It’s a catch 22 — How can supporters of pluralism reject Hareidi — a legitimate part of the Jewish people.

  2. Glenn Tamir says

    May 29, 2010 at 12:37 am

    Haredi are not legitimate part of the Jewish People. To be legitimate, in my opinion, one must accept other Jewish groups and their legitimate rights to assume a role in the observance of their followers – which the Haredi clearly DO NOT.

    This would be like inviting the KKK to join a civil rights council. If they accept Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionists as legitimate members of the Jewish People entitled to the same religious rights as other Jews/Israelis then let them in. This should have been a litmus test before allowing them to take a seat at the table.

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