Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
Enhancing our Support for Progressive Judaism in Israel
Adopted by the CCAR at the 98th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
1987
We the members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, express our gratitude
to and our support of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the Association of
Reform Zionists of America, and KADIMA for all of their efforts on behalf of Progressive
Judaism in Israel. We urge our colleagues to strengthen and deepen their support for
these organizations, and to involve themselves personally in activities which give
expression to their programs.
Furthermore, we support all efforts currently under way to forge a single, unified
fund-raising apparatus which would eliminate the troubling, inefficient, and redundant
efforts by each constituent element of Progressive Judaism to raise on its own desperately needed resources in North America. It is time to set aside old patterns of self-serving
competition, so as to guarantee that Progressive Judaism in Israel will have all
of its needs met fully and appropriately. It is no longer reasonable to assume that small, diffuse campaigns can effectively meet the needs of our movement in Israel;
neither is it reasonable to assume that our members will long tolerate what appears
to be an endless stream of fund-raising emissaries.
Progressive Judaism in Israel has begun to move into a flourishing maturity. It deserves
and demands a unified, coherent, and generous pattern of support. Institutional competitiveness
must be replaced by a single, highly effective fund-raising program.