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“Get ready for the
Holidays!”
Lauded from pg. 44 The archbishop also welcomed
Jews for a joint service on the 74th anniversary of Kristall- nacht, the night in 1938 when nearly 200 synagogues were de- stroyed, Jewish shops were loot- ed and tens of thousands of Jews were sent to be exterminated in Adolf Hitler’s Germany. And he also sponsored inter-
faith prayers after Pope Benedict XVI offended Moslems in 2006 by quoting a Byzantine emper- or as saying some of the proph- et Mohammed’s teachings were “evil and inhuman.” That time, rather than crit-
icize Benedict directly, Bergo- glio let a lower-ranking priest lead a service in which he him- self did not participate. But lead- ers of other religions were im- pressed nonetheless. This dialogue between reli-
gions “isn’t just a photo op,” Omar Abboud of the Islamic Center of the Argentine Republic said then. “It’s a genuine and well- reasoned commitment under construction, because we know that we cannot get by without this dialogue.” Guillermo Borger, president
of the Argentine-Israelite Mu- tual Association, said Bergo- glio came often to the associa- tion’s headquarters, which was rebuilt on the site of Argenti- na’s worst terrorist attack, the still-unsolved 1994 bombing that killed 85 people. “We’re sure that given the sensitivity that Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, had here, I real- ly believe that he’ll continue to support us. “We’ve spoken often about
this idea of the power of work- ing together, and we expect that he’ll continue to do it this way as pope, this way of acknowl- edging the past so that final- ly we might achieve justice. . . . We’ve had long talks about this and we’re absolutely on the same page.” One rabbi who is particular-
ly close to Francis is Abraham Skorka, whose friendly debates over religion, politics and social issues with the archbishop be- came so enjoyable that they de- cided to invite a writer with a tape recorder along. Their dia- logues were published in 2010 as On Heaven and Earth. Then, the two men kept it up on a pro- gram each Friday on the Arch- diocesan TV channel. “Is it true that Argentines
don’t want dialogue?” Bergoglio asks in the book. “I wouldn’t say so. Rather, I think we succumb as victims of attitudes that don’t permit us to have dialogue: ar- rogance, not knowing how to lis- ten, hostility in our speech, at- tacking the messenger and so many others. Dialogue is born from an attitude of respect to- ward the other person, from a conviction that the other has something good to say.” —With Debora Rey and Michael Warren
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running on an annual budget of less than $500,000, much of it coming from its officers. “It was started with the idea
that there was a natural, won- derful relationship between in- dependent oil and gas produc- ers who want America to be in- dependent and those of us who believe it is in America’s inter- ests for Israel to be strong and secure,” said Eisenstat, a former vice president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. David Harris, director of the
American Jewish Committee, a group that pioneered Jewish energy-independence advocacy in the 1970s, said he was vague- ly aware of the new group and expressed wariness of any “sil- ver bullet” strategy for weaning the United States from a reli- ance on foreign oil. “Our strategy, developed
through a staff team and a com- mittee of experts, has always tried to take a balanced approach that says there’s not one silver bullet, but there is a collection of bul- lets that can lead us to the inde- pendence that every president since Nixon promised,” he said. Hoenlein said the council’s
aim was to address a broad range of alternatives to Mid- dle Eastern oil. “We have people looking into
alternatives,” he said. “The whole point is to make it as broad as possible.” Neil Goldstein, another coun-
cil director and a former exec- utive director of the American Jewish Congress, is now involved in researching alternative en- ergies through two non-profits, including one called the Israel Energy Partnership. Nonethe- less, the council’s website clear- ly emphasizes fossil fuels. Six of eight articles on its recommend- ed reading page are defenses of domestic drilling and fracking. The other two are about Israel. Martin Frost, a former Dem-
ocratic congressman from Tex- as who, like Hoenlein, is listed as a director of the council, said the emphasis made sense con- sidering current realities. “The primary focus is on oil
and gas because that’s what will be available for the foreseeable future,” said Frost, who now lobbies for the Domestic Ener- gy Producers Alliance. “There is a potential that you can have North American self-sufficien- cy in the not-too-distant future. That’s good for our balance-of-
payments situation, and it’s good for the United States and for Is- rael in terms of foreign policy.” Oil companies have sought
to make common cause with American Jewish groups in the past. In the 1990s, multination- al oil companies made overtures to AIPAC after the lobby’s suc- cessful push for Iran sanctions forced the companies to alter their business practices. Morrie Am- itay, a former AIPAC executive director and still an influential figure in the pro-Israel commu- nity, has lobbied for the Ameri- can Petroleum Institute. Keith Weissman, a former
Iran analyst with AIPAC, was the lobby’s liaison with multina- tional oil companies in the 1990s. Weissman said he figured out soon enough that there was not a lot that oil companies, domestic or foreign, had in common with the Jewish community. “We never got into domes-
tic drilling,” Weissman said of AIPAC. “We knew as American Jews we couldn’t touch envi- ronmental issues and have any credibility with our communi- ty. American Jews don’t want to destroy Alaska to import a few barrels less from Angola.” Eisenstat said he expected
to face some Jewish opposition to the council and emphasized that he was not seeking to co- opt the community to the oil in- dustry’s needs. Instead, he saw it as a project of mutual educa- tion: Jews learn about the ben- efits of domestic fossil-fuel pro- duction and a key American in- dustry becomes more sensitive to Israel’s security needs. “We took 15 people over to
Israel, many of whom [are] not Jewish, who have never been to Israel,” he said. Among them was Hamm,
who appeared to get the pro-Is- rael message. “America will not have to
kowtow to countries just due to the fact that they have oil pro- duction in the future,” Hamm said in an interview during the tour.
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