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Vol. 026 Issue 002 (April 1 2001)
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Perspectives
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SHANKS, HERSHEL
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PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint We came to an unmanned Israeli checkpoint. Simply a blockade of large concrete cubes. No one there. No way to get through. The View From Nablus What's it like...
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What matters?
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SINGER, SUZANNE F.
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PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint Now is the time to ask what Israel should be. What Mattere? Sometimes a moment comes in the life of an individual or a country when events occur that make it...
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Forum
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FORUM Readers React Some rabbis refuse to convert people who are married to non-Jews on the grounds that it creates an intermarriage. That rationale is elitist and exclusionary. Leading...
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Fifty Seven Sixty-One A JEWISH YEAR HAYSTACKS Nazi Loot Goes Online Efforts to restore plundered art to its rightful owners—a needle-in-a-haystack challenge before the computer age— received a...
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Survey Says Intermarriage Is Okay
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Klagsbrun, Francine
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Francine Klagsbrun Survey Says Intermarriage Is Okay Most American Jews don \ really care if their children marry non-Jews. The American Jewish Committee's 2000 survey of opinions among AmERican...
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Ending Hebrew School as W e Know It
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ABRAMOWTTZ, YOSEF I.
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Yosef T. Abramowitz Ending Hebrew School as We Know It When Britney, /j, and W Sync are part of Sunday School core courses, teens will do their Jewish homework. The American Jewish community has...
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Survey
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SURVEY What do YOU? Should the press have mentioned a rabbi's name, reexposing a sexual impropriety that had been admitted eight years earlier? In connection with coverage of Rabbi Sheldon...
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Family Matters
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BIRKNER, GABRIELLE
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Family Matters AVIVA BOCK AND FERN REISS Explaining 'Freedom' to Your Children A fifth question for your seder: How are the rules parents set for their children like Gods covenant with...
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Jewish Lives
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TENZER, HEATHER
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O L A M The Jewish World Identity Catharsis HEATHER TENZER Her family escaped pogroms in Kiev and survived African slavery; now the daughter of a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Moment of Truth
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MOSKOWITZ, RICHARD
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Moment of Truth Shoemaker's Shabbat Grandpa was a shoemaker. Born in 1875, he worked his way across Europe, to America, pry-ipg the trade he had learned as a boy in Austria-Hungary, During his...
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Blessing the Tam Tams
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BERGER, JOSEPH
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Blessing the Tam Tarns JOSEPH BERGER Every Friday, a different mother was invited to bring the Shabbat provisions to school. Joseph Berger, an education editor at the New York Times, came to...
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Waters of Life
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GOLDSTEIN, NILES ELLIOT
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Waters of Life NILES ELLIOT GOLDSTEIN In the mikvah, I felt God palpably. Mitzvot, the command-ments, can inspire and elevate us. Sometimes they can bring us face to face with the...
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A Different Education
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SAGAN, MIRIAM
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Luxury Matzah WILLIAM MILES The bread of affliction is the perfect food for long treks through the African hinterlands. As a political anthropologist specializing in Third World countries, I...
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Hooking Jews on Jesus
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SHANKS, HERSHEL
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hooking Jews on Jesus Evangelical Christians are embracing Messianic Jews to convert us to Christianity. IN A MUCH-DISCUSSED and much-praised article in the October 2000 issue of the Atlantic...
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The Gay Orthodox Underground
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Grossman, Naomi
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The GAY ORTHODOX UNDERGROUND With support groups proliferpting and a New Film DOCUMENTING THEIR HaRDSHIPS, OBSERVANT Homosexuals SENDING A SIMPLE MESSAGE: It's OK TO BE ORTHODOX AND GAY. NAOMI...
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Gallery
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The Textbook Report
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LEVINE, SUSANNAH
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the text BOOK REPORT Have Palestinian schoolbooks gotten any better? SUSANNAH LEVINE Palestinian textbooks have become a flash-point in the Middle East. When seven years of peace talks ended...
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Authentic Judaism
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Epstein, Jerome M.
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We have been accused of OrTHOdox bashing. Now, we are being accused, even more vociferously, of Conservative bashing. In February, Moment published "The Conservative Lie" by Avi Shafran, accusing...
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Also Speak These Words to Your Children
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REIMER, JACK
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REVIEWS Books, Music & Video Also Speak These Words to Your Children Haggadah for the Yom haShoah Seder Avi Weiss, editor New York: Amcha and Jonas Publishing, 2000. 50 pp., $5 The Holocaust...
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If It's So Good, Why Is It So Bad?
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REIMER, JACK
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If It's So Good, Why Is It So Bad? The Conservative Movement in Judaism-Dilemmas and Opportunities Daniel J. Elazar and Rela Mintz Geffen Albany, NY: State Unh/ersrty of New York Press, 2000. 238...
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Jewish Possibilities
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Dennis, Warren
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Jewish Possibilities Finding a Spiritual Home—Horn a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue Rabbi Sidney Schwarz San Francisco: JosseyBass, 2000. 336 pp., hardcover...
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Notable Books
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notable books Living with Loss, Healing with Hope—A Jewish Perspective Rabbi Earl A. Grollmart [Boston: Beacon Press, 2000) A non-Jewish friend of the author once told him, "If I wanted the...
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Contributors
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CONTRIBUTORS Joseph Berger ("Blessing the Tam Tams") is the deputy education editor at the New York Times. Before that, he was a Times reporter for 15 years, writing on topics including religion...
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Spice Box
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SPICE BOX He Speaks From Heaven About All the Tolerance Anyone Can Tolerate Rosh HaHanukkah Combination Ceremony We Didn't Know Frank Sinatra Was Born...
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