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    MORDECAI M. KAPLAN 20 Kiser $719 His Exebeney, ‘Me. David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of lal Peace and Blessing ‘Upon my return yesterday from the West Coat of the United Sates, T found the leer of Your Excellency, requesting my pion regaring the desirable procedure forthe repsvaion of ellen of mized parentage, inthe ete where both the parente— the Jewish father and the aoaTewish motber—wish «9 reper hem at Jews. In oder to understand the nature ofthis problem, one must view tints proper frame of refeeace. This frame of reference it alluded toi the flowing excerpt from theft pareraph of yout Jeter: “To formulate registration procedures conforming t0 the Aeaition accepted by all Jewish spheres, secularist, in all thie facto, and Orthodox Jew alte; procures applicable to the specie constions prevaling in Issa, sovereign Jewish State, hich guarantes the freedom of conscience and religion and ‘hich sees asthe conte for the Ingatherng ofthe Eile” This sentence elucidates the content within which we must consider the problem, in order tat it may eealy be understood. However, ‘pon analyzing this context, I ind hat it epee with conrade- tions. The following are examples: 1) The assumption that there is indoed a “tadton accepted by all Jewish sphere, secularists, in all thei factions and Orthodox Jews allo” Is ULfounded, havlag bala neither in theory ne in experience. 2) The very fact tha the Goverament hat given the Rabbinate ‘the authority to compel ll Jews to accept its json la mail afi and in the settlement of etates,conrtates a denial o the 232 Response: Avsnican Scuouss supposton that Israel “guarantees te freedom of conslence and religion.” This supposition i further contradicted bythe fact that ‘the Government itself is obliged to gve consideration tothe view point of the Rabbinste regarding the question as who should be recogni asa Jew. 3) The Basi assumption thatthe State of sali @ Jewish State is itself open to question. There is, indeed, an alternative t this sssumploe, an slemative which, ae T propose to clay, wil Gminish neither the Jewish character aor the Jevith valve of ef fort a the establishment ofthe Jewish Sate ‘These contradictory aspects inthe comtext in which the prob lem mst be considered, are not incidental they ate the rest of, the complet inkerent in society. Tay ae a consequene ofthe phenomenon ofthe development of modern mins which emancl- pated the Jens and absorbed the. They rv a esl of the intel. Ieetal revelation, wich transformed the approach to religous ‘eadtion. During this period we were acted with misfortune and percouton, which deterred u fom adjusting normally tothe ‘ew material and splualenvicoameat. It therefore no wonder that we pa scant tention to thor fndamental quesione afet- ing our very enstence and fate: the deletion of our essential, cfaracter aa socal nit and the determination of the stats of this unit In vain dd the pow, J L, Gordon, complain that we are ot truly a people but merely 2 flock. The truth is that we are merely an aggregate of peopl,» mixed popalce. ‘Were it not forthe Zionist movement, we should have for- foitea that we are a member of one mation and oer ancetort ‘were once “one people the land”; we should not have aspired to the formation of social entity, the reality of which could searce ‘be doubted. Apropos ofthese claeatos i will now be possible to feame an appropriate context which will enable us to under- stand the problem under consideration and find an adequate ‘olution fort 41) Tee the Jewish Agency that made posible the etablishment ofthe State of Israel as modern Stat. It modemly was fe 233 ‘ected rst by the vey fact that it came into bing, and secondly, by the natre of is exten "From its very inception, the State of Israel jgnored the tr tonal blef tut we must avait the coming ofthe Mesiahy a

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