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Vol. 028 Issue 005 (October 1 2003)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Perspectives: Hershel Shanks
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PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint If we negotiate with the supervisors of the Al-Aksa Brigade, should we offer to make a deal with Hamas and Islamic Jihad? ^¦j Is It Time for the I...
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Perspectives:Suzane F. Singer
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PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint A reality check for what's possible in Jewish life came from Shabbat in a century-old lakeshore synagogue. r —in start with Life I I just experienced a I...
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FORUM
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FORUM Readers React When the literal meaning no longer makes sense, this is traditionally a sign that one is ready to go either broader or deeper. Send your views to: FORUM EDITOR Moment 4710...
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5764:Columnists
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Fifty Seven Sixty-Four A JEWISH YEAR Calendar ? Through November 9 Women of Ravensbmck: Portraits of Courage tells the story ot women in the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Houston Holocaust...
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Is God into control?
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POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin Whose Reputation Is This? Yours, Mine, Ours Its common for us to feel collectively sullied when a Jew does wrong. Why should we he surprised if outsiders make the same...
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The GOP has its eye on the Jewish community
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Breger, Marshall
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Marshall Breger Jews and Republicans The GOP is making a public and focused effort to reach out to the Jewish community. Since the early 1980's Jewish Republicans have had premonitions of their...
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Survey
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SURVEY What do YOU think? With so many branches within Judaism today-Orthodox. Conservative, Reform. Reconstruction ist, Humanistic, many not halnchic despite some claims to the contrary, most...
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Black Fire on White Paper
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EICHLER, LEAH
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OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD Black Fire on White Paper LEAH EICHLER JEWISH LIVES Even now despite her commission, Aviel must rely on her male mentor to buy her materials since no one in the Orthodox...
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Moment of Truth
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MOMENT OF TRUTH In Flanders Fields Uncle Ernst, my mother's oldest brother, was a strong, forceful man who loved his famiy. He survived both world wars, finally settling on a kibbutz in Israel....
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Having the Final Say
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ALMON, RUTH
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Having the Final Say RUTH ALMON Ihave never laughed at a funeral. Yet. I may, however, crack up during kaddish at the next one. And I refuse to accept all the blame. My friend Judie's the one who...
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Poem
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Roots It's all in the roots how he liked the quiet in my family, I [iked the noise in his. How, twenty-five years later, the balance shifts, and as I take turns with my sisters-in-law, hosting...
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Quiz
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What Are You Waiting For? BY RONALD ROTH 1. Jewish days begin when the sun sets. This is because: a. the general Jewish tendency is to do things backward b. in ancient times no one could be sure...
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Saddam's Secret Jewish Archives
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SECRET (Top) Rescued books are dried out belore being put into trucks lor storage. (Near right) Baghdad i Jewish names list probably from Ihe early 1940s. (Center) Title page of Eden BaGan...
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Healing Waters
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Alexander, Elizabeth Shanks
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HEALIMG WATERS Turning to Jewish-Ritual ELIZABETH SHANKS ALEXANDER As a university professor, I tend to mark time according to the academic calendar, I will always remember '01-'02 by the...
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Does the Great American Synagogue Still Have a Prayer?
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FRIED, STEPHEN
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Does the Great American Synagogue Still Have a Prayer? It's growing tougher for congregations and rabbis to form a lasting bond. STEPHEN FRIED For much of my life, I was a six-day-a-year...
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No Rest for the Middleman
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SCHWARSCHILD, EDWARD
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no Rest for the Middleman EDWARD SCHWARZSCHILD Mom ent Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Story Contest FIRST PLACE WINNER My mother tells me stories at bed-rime. I tell myself stories after she...
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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Story Contest
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SCHWARZSCHILD, EDWARD
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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Story Contest EDWARD SCHWARZSCHILD teaches at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the English...
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Saving the Faith
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GOLIN, PAUL
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Saving the Faith PAUL GOLIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN U.S. HISTORY, THE NUMBER OF JEWS IS DECLINING. WELCOMING INTERMARRIED COUPLES CAN REVERSE THE TREND. Recently released statistics from the...
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Gallery
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Gallery OCTOBER 2003 / MOMENT ...
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ASSOCIATES
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ASSOCIATES Up to $100 Marilyn & Melvin Moskowitz J. J. Mueller Abraham Muhlbaum Richard Newman Frederick Nisenholtz Marilynn Norinsky Mr. & Mrs. Novick Claire Oliver D. Orent Rebecca Oshlag...
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Books:How Can We Explain the Success of Chabad?
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RIEMER, JACK
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REVIEwS Books, "Music & Video How Can We Explain the Success of Chabad? The Rebbe's Army: inside the World of Chabad-Lubavrtcfi by Sue Fishkoff New York, N.Y. Sctocken Bonks, 352 pp.,...
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Where Three Movements Stand Today
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RIEMER, JACK
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Where Three Movements Stand Today American Reform Judaism; An Introduction by Dana Evan Kaplan Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 2003. 300 pp., $22-00. Or Hadasft: A Commentary on...
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Contributors
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Contributors Elizabeth Shanks Alexander ("Healing Waters") teaches in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia. Her teaching and scholarly interests focus on rabbinic...
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Spice Box
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SPICE BOX Send us newspaper clippings, notes, curiosities, and photographs—anything you'd like to share. If your material is printed, we'll send you three Moment gift subscriptions. Mail your...
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