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Vol. 026 Issue 006 (December 1 2001)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Task Ahead
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SHANKS, HERSHEL
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PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint In many parts of the world, they are raising a whole new generation of terrorists, beginning with 6-year-olds and younger. The Task Ahead It is two days after...
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The Diameter of the Bomb
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SINGER, SUZANNE F.
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PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint Now the 'Great American Satan' and the 'Little Israeli Satan' are in it together. The Diameter of the Bomb My year was bracketed by two Rosh Hashanahs. Six months...
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Forum
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FORUM Reader's React Most Jews who choose cremation are depressed or angry—at their families, themselves, or at Cod. The Love Drug Defaming the Jewish Star I object to your portrayal of the Star...
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Fifty Seven Sixty-Two A Jewish Year TRAVEL Chai Altitudes It's winter in the Rockies, and vacationers are flocking to Aspen, Colorado, to socialize and ski. They might even drop by the local...
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Collective Calamity
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Klagsbrun, Francine
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Francine Klagsbrun Collective Calamity Memory helps as assimilate the unintelligible. Its at the very heart of Jewish tradition. I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER EXACTLY WHERE I was when terrorists struck...
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Vouchers and Jews
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Breger, Marshall
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Marshall Breger Vouchers and Jews Government action that assists religion is not necessarily theocratic. The moment of truth for those opposing school vouchers has finally arrived. In late...
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How We Can Win
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ABRAMOWITZ, YOSEF L.
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Yosef L. Abramowitz How We Can Win We must seize momentum on college campuses, the greenhouses for anti-Israel activism.. When it comes to the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans and of...
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Survey
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SURVEY What do YOU think? Does faith help in the face of terrorism? What are your thoughts after the tragedy of Sept. 11? What comfort, solace, or wisdom can we draw from Judaism? Will Americans...
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Jewish Lives
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Joravsky, Ben
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OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD Day School Dreamer BEN JORAVSKY On the top floor of a sleek high-rise office building overlooking Chicago's central business district, George Hanus sits at his conference...
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Moment of Truth
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MOMENT OF TRUTH Titanic Journey On March 22nd, 1912, my mother embarked from Libau, a port on the Baltic Sea, for America. She left behind all her relatives in Poltava, Ukraine, and headed to...
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A Candle For Kerala
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Dorfman, Ariel
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A Candle For Kerala ARIEL DORFMAN Mac waited for an angel to free his tongue, but not a word came out. You say you wouldn't know how to pray for a miracle anymore, not in this day and age,...
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Pressing Business
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Rosen, Nancy
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Pressing Business NANCY ROSEN Use extra-virgin olive oil in the menorah. It's closer to the real thing. When Shaul Eger looks DUt his window toward Nazareth, he is looking at a birthplace of...
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Poem
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The Jewish Museum of Valparaiso Here arc my grandparents scaled by fate and precarious history. In this photograph I recognize them. I imagine the breadth of their despair, the slow passing of the...
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Sweeter Than Sweet
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MILES, WILLIAM F. S.
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Sweeter than Sweet WILLIAM F. S. MILES How do you provide a single satisfactory answer to sweeping questions about customs and religion in Ameriyka? Ayear after my father's death I...
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The Jerusalem Bomb Squad
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Katz, Samuel M.
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ON DUTY with Jerusalem's BOMB SQUADS SAMUEL M. KATZ Jerusalem's ability to function like a normal town comes at the expense of the men and women sworn to keep it safe. It all starts with...
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Why I Wrote My Torah Commentary
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FRIEDMAN, RICHARD ELLIOTT
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What light can the Torah shed on overpopulation, the changing status of women, and shifting attitudes toward homosexuality? Why I Wrote My Torah Commentary RICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN For many...
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When Children Go Frum
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When Children go FRUM Disenchanted with secular Judaism, thousands of young adults are turning to Orthodoxy. Many parents feel the sting of rejection. GABRIELLE BIRKNER FRIDAY EVENINGS...
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Gallery
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Yes, the Exodus Really Happened
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Wolpe, David
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WOLPE: I'M NO BIBLE-BASHER We Were Slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt' DAVID WOLPE I have long admired Hershel Shanks's work in bringing awareness of Judaism, both ancient and modern, to a large...
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Portrait of a People
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SACHAR, HOWARD M.
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Portrait of a People The Jews in the Twentieth Century— An Illustrated History Martin Gilbert New York: Schocken, 2001. 376 pp., hardcover S50 REVIEWED BY HOWARD M. SACHAR Over the last decade,...
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A Habitable Bubble
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MILGROM, JACOB
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A Habitable Bubble Commentary on the Torah Richard Elliott Friedman Harper San Francisco, 2001. 681 pp., hardcover S50 REVIEWED BY JACOB MILGROM I have spent many joyful days reading and...
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Notable Books
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Notable Books Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter—Creating Jewish Ways to HWcoon Baby Girls into the Covenant— New and Traditional Ceremonies Debra Nussbaum Cohen (Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights...
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The World's Memory
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Trachtenberg, Stanley
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The World's Memory Old Men at Midnight Chaim Potok New York: Knopf, 2001. 304 pp., S23 REVIEWED BY STANLEY TRACHTENBERG "Who needs stories of yet another Jew?" asks a character in the three...
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Passageless Rites
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Epstein, David
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Passageless Rites Finding Each Other in Judaism— Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortality Harold M. Schulweis New York, NY: UAHC Press, 2001. 118 pp., paperback...
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A Soldier's Dilemma
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MOTRO, HELEN SCHARY
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A Soldier's Dilemma Martyr's Crossing Amy Wilentz New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 311 pp., hardcover $24 REVIEWED BY HELEN SCHARY MOTRO Rooted in the thick of the Israeli-Palestinian...
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The Jewish Afterlife
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RIEMER, JACK
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The Jewish Afterlife TTie Great Poems of the Bible—A Reader's Companion with New Translations James L. Kugel New York: The Free Press, 1999. 352 pp., S23 REVIEWED BY JACK RIEMER Wonders never...
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The Little Peace Engine That Could
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Troy, Gil
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The Little Peace Engine That Could His Brother's Keeper—Israel and Diaspora Jewry in the Twenty-First Century Yossi Beilin New York: Schocken Books, 2000. 232 pp., hardcover S24 REVIEWED BY ...
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One Smart Rebbitzen
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RIEMER, JACK
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One Smart Rebbitzen Don't Cry For Me, Hot Pastrami Sharon Kahn New York: Scribner, 2001. 298 pp., S24 REVIEWED BY JACK RIEMER Ruby, the widowed rebbitzen (a rabbi's wife), has done it...
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Contributors
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Contributors Marjorie Agosin ("The Jewish Museum of Valparaiso"), professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, is a Chilean poet and human rights activist. Her latest book is Women, Gendei; and Human...
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Spice Box
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SPICE BOX Available in Lemon, Lime, and Etrog It's really more of a gentle cantor. Religious Profiling is Unconstitutional Godly Hair Care Nuff...
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