1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2000
2001
February
Vol. 026 Issue 001 (February 1 2001)
••Cover Page••
••Contents••
Perspective
SHANKS, HERSHEL
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint What comes after Arafat may be a period of Palestinian instability, but it could hardly be worse than the current oppressive dictatorship. A Poor Investment I...
Perspective
SINGER, SUZANNE F.
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint The reality is different from what you see on TV. You can avoid the confrontation in Israel. Now is the time to come—for a week or a month or a summer. Come— It...
Forum
FORUM Readers React Outreach that is not explicitly conversion-oriented raises hopes but weakens Judaism-leading to children who think a Christmas tree is normal for a Jewish home. Leading...
5761
Fifty Seven Sixty-One A JEWISH YEAR COINCIDENCES The Other Lieberman Like many other American Jews, mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky was galvanized by Joseph Lieberman's nomination for vice...
Land Versus Life
POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
Letty Cottin Pogrebin Land Versus Life The curse of the settlements is the greatest impediment to peace. Clashing ideologies. Competing vic-timhoods. Stones. Bullets. Brutality. Violations of...
GOP Jews
PRAGER, DENNIS
Dennis Prager COP Jews Why is it Jews can oppose medical research on animals and identify as atheists or Buddhists without drawing criticism— but Jews who vote Republican are traitors? A FEW...
Survey
SURVEY What do you think? Does Judaism Prohibit Intermarriage? Should it? During the presidential election, Joe Lieberman told radio host Don I mus that there is nothing in Judaism that...
Jewish Lives
LIPKIN, LISA
O L A M The Jewish World The Still-Happy Hooker A Penthouse columnist and former madam turns Jewish "ambassador" in Amsterdam LISA LIPKIN At 56, the Happy Hooker still likes to seduce...
Moment of Truth
NYLIN, LAWRENCE A.
Moment of Truth Discovery at the Beit Din I decided to comert to Judaism the day my father-irv4aw, Max, was buried. It didn't matter that I had been raised a Methodist or that I was married to a...
Yiddishe Kopf
GINSBERG, ALLEN
Yiddishe Kopf I'm Jewish because love my family and matzoh ball soup. I'm Jewish because my fathers mothers uncles grandmothers said "Jewish," all the way back to 'Vitebsk & Kaminetz-Podolska...
Forced Conversion
STREICKER, JOEL
Forced Conversion Why I made my daughter become a Jew JOEL STREICKER Like so many important conversations with my daughter, this one took place in the car, rushing her from the JCC after-school...
The Beloved Country Cries Again
SINGER, SUZANNE F.
The Beloved Country Cries again APARTHEID IS DISMANTLED, THE EVIL DAYS OF "THE STRUGGLE" ARE PAST, YET YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN JEWS ARE JOINING THE FLOOD OF WHITE BRAIN DRAIN. SUZANNE F. ...
The Conservative Lie
SHAFRAN, AVI
THE CONSERVATIVE LIE Proclaiming fealty to Jewish law, Conservative leaders have trampled it. AVI S H A F R A N Sincere and dedicated conservative Jews need to face an uncomfortable feet Their...
Hunting for Suicide Bombers
Katz, Samuel M.
HUNTING FOR SUICIDE BOMBERS ISRAEL'S ELITE UNDERCOVER UNITS TAKE FIRE FROM HUMAN RICHTS CROUPS. BUT WHERE WOULD ISRAEL BE WITHOUT THEM? SAMUEL M. KATZ WORD OF THE SUICIDE bombing at the...
Gallery
...
Hate Unleashed
ROLNICK, JOSH
HATE UNLEASHED The "Rosh Hashanah riots" spurred an outbreak of anti-Semitic attacks from Rome to Riverdale. JOSH ROLNICK FIRE trucks sped past Rabbi Irving Beigel's house in Syracuse, New...
Undying Rage
NIR, YEHUDA
Undying Rage The Reluctant Return—A Survivor's Journey into an Austrian Town David W. Weiss Bloomington, IN: Indians Unwersity Press, 1999. 192 pp., hardcover $20 REVIEWED BY YEHUDA ...
The People Eaters
COHEN, LESLIE
The People Eaters The Hyena People—Ethiopian Jews in Christian Ethiopia Hagar Salamon Berkeley: Unwersity of California Press, 1999. 124 pp., hardcover $48, paperback $17.95 REVIEWED BY ...
Cutting Criticism
GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
Cutting Criticism Circumcision—A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery David L. Gollaher New York: Basic Books, 2000. 253 pp., hardcover S26 REVIEWED BY LAWRENCE GROSSMAN Of all...
Leadership 101-Let Moses Be Your Mentor
ZITO, CHARLES A.
Leadership 101—Let Moses Be Your Mentor Moses on Management David Baron, with Lynette Padwa New York: Pocket Books, 2000. 298 pp., paperback S12.95 REVIEWED BY CHARLES A. ZITO What can we learn...
Notable Books
Notable Books The Congressional Minyan— The Jews or Capitol Hill Kurt F. Stone (Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing, 2000) Joe I.iebcrman's nomination for vice president was a first But so was David...
Contributors
Contributors Allen Ginsberg's ("Yiddishe Kopf) signal poem "Howl," one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century, was published in 1956. A member of the American Academy of Arts...
Spice Box
SPICE BOX Don't Look Back, But Another Town 1$ Headed for Ruin Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It Don't Worry, We'll Keep It Short Posing the Question Once Again of who Is a Jewish...
April
June
August
October
December
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010s
2020s
Kanda Software, Inc.