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Vol. 026 Issue 005 (October 1 2001)
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PERSPECTIVE
SHANKS, HERSHEL
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint Nuff Said I SIMPLY STOP LISTENING TO MY FAVORITE nonprofit, classical ::: music radio stations I during their so-called "marathons," when they spend, it seems,...
Jewish Ghosts
SINGER, SUZANNE F.
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint Jewish Ghosts JEWS TRAVEL THE WORLD LOOKING FOR Jewish ghosts. That's true even for Jews who hardly care a whit for synagogues or Jewish holidays when they're...
FORUM
FORUM Reader's Act Leading Off Bloated Religious Nonsense Please convey my guffawing congratulations to the artist of the June cover, which spoofs the Holy Land theme park. It's truly glorious....
FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY TWO
FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY TWO L A S H E S F a m i l y F e ud A Brandeis professor's report on intermarriage has sparked a community feud that is likely to be a hot topic at next month's General Assembly...
Reform's Cowardice
PRAGER, DENNIS
Reform's Cowardice If you want to know what the Reform ynovement believes, don't read the Torah, read the New York Times editorial page Dennis Prager THE DECISION OF THE REFORM MOVEment to...
How Could a Jew Do That?
POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
How Could a Jew Do That? Israel's sadistic treatment of Palestinians seems to be proliferating Letty Cottin Pogrebin THIS IS A COLUMN ABOUT SHAME, AN emotion I don't usually feel in relation to...
What do you think?
SURVEY What do you think? Is wanting to share a Jewish partner's religious commitment a sufficient basis for conversion? In a move toward traditionalism, the Reform movement's Central Conference...
Family Matters
Rose, Gail
Family Matters Gail Rose The Spouse Who Drank Too Much Learning to cope, Jewishly, with a loved one's drinking YEARS AGO I WAS MADLY IN LOVE AND suffering. The man I would eventually marry...
The Jewish Rainmaker
LEVINE, SUSANNAH
OLAM The Jewish Rainmaker SUSANNAH LEVINE RABBI NILES GOLDSTEIN stands in front of the Torah ark in an upstairs room Df a Greenwich Village church. Hbout 40 congregants— fcuthors, musicians,...
Dreaming in English
WINNER, SUE
Dreaming in English For some people, it is enough to have been born Jewish—or to have been brought up that way. For some, "being" Jewish comes as naturally as breathing. I had to be blindsided by...
Love of Lending
WISEMON, TAMAR
Love of Lending TAMAR WISEMON w HEN MOSHE RlTTERman moved into his home in Lakewood, N.J., he found a collection of work tools in a corner of the garage, discarded by the previous owners. Among...
Gunslinger's Grave
TRITTEN, LARRY
Gunslinger's Grave LARRY TRITTEN WHEN I HEARD that Wyatt Earp, the legendary lawman, gunfighter, and gambler, was buried in the quiet town of Colma, Calif., outside San Francisco, I decided to...
Fool on the Hill
STRUBBE, BILL
Kaddish in Odd Places for my brother Brushes in a jar wait to dive into ponds of rose and blue, to dance over vast, white paper. I paint with both hands. A quorum of fingers extol God's...
A Legacy of Blood
BIRNBAUM, BEN
A Legacy of Blood Can Christianity Be Purged Anti-Semitism Without Changing he Gospels BEN BIRNBAUM NE EVENING a few years ago, I attended a forum on anti-Judaism in the text of Bach's "St...
Assassination
Katz, Samuel M.
Assassination Samuel M. Katz WHEN KARIM MUHED HEARD THE EXPLOSION, HE pushed his brother to the ground and hit the deck. It was just before noon on Nov. 9 in the West Bank town of Beit Sahur,...
The Way Things Were
The Way Things Were... The anchored missile boat rocked slowly in the black waters of the Mediterranean, as the mission commander scanned the Tunisian coastline through high-powered field...
Did the Exodus Really Happen?
SHANKS, HERSHEL
Did the Exodus Really Happen? HERSHEL SHANKS PASSOVER, RABBI DAVID WOLPE of Sinai Temple, a Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles, delivered a sermon that made him famous. According to the...
Help Wanted
SOMMER, ALLISON KAPLAN
Help Wanted ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER A NATIONAL J E W I SH P E R S O N N E L CRISIS HAS FORCED DRASTIC A C T I O N — F R O M HIRING N O N - J E W I S H DAYSCHOOL DIRECTORS TO ' P O A C H I N G '...
Berkeh's Story
Lax, Leah
Berkeh's Story Leah Lax Th e y o u n g m e n stood shivering on the front stoop. They huddled together with towels rolled under their arms, waiting for the school bus that picked them up at...
A Dark Legacy
HOHMAN, JENNIFER
REVIEWS Books, Music & Video A Dark Legacy My Father's Keeper—Children of Nazi Leaders—An Intimate History of Damage and Denial Stephan and Norbert Lebert, translated by Julian Evans. New York:...
Auschwitz Angst
ASHKINAZE, CAROLE
Auschwitz Angst Allies Have Attempted It? Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum, editors New York: St. Martin's Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000,...
Notable Books
Notable Books Scrolls of Testimony Abba Kovner, translated by Dr. Edward Levenston (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2001) Abba Kovner—commander of Jewish partisans in the Vilna...
Deepening the Dialogue
FREDRIKSEN, PAULA
Deepening the Dialogue Christianity in Jewish Terms Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, and Michael A. Signer, editors Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000, 438...
Music and Worship,Re-examined
WALDOKS, MOSHE
Music and Worship,Re-examined The Lord's Song in a Strange Land—Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship Jeffrey A. Summit. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 203 pp.,...
Writer's Spark
RIEMER, JACK
Writer's Spark More Stories from My Father's Court Isaac Basheuis Singer, translated by Curt Leviant New York: Farrar, Straus and GiroiK, 2001, 216 pp., hardcover S23 REVIEWED BY JACK...
Jewish Tales for Tots
RIEMER, JACK
Jewish Tales for Tots Seven Delightful Stories For Everyday Dov Peretz Elkins Seven Animals With Their Tales Howard and Mary Bogot The Hebrew Letters Tell Their Story Reudor The Rooster...
Contributors
Contributors Ben Birnbaum ("A Legacy of Blood") is the editor of Boston College Magazine. He chairs the Jesuit Institute Seminar on Jewish-Christian Dialogue at Boston College, where he also...
SPICE BOX
SPICE BOX For hemorrhoids, t r y o u r m a t z a h suppository. From the Napervfe Sun. Submitted by Cindy Etfron of NapervtBe, H. Treif Haven For the Frum Gambler 11 n>n Violators will b e...
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