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Vol. 028 Issue 004 (August 1 2003)
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PROGRESSIVE:HERSHEL SHANKS
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint Two tough problems-one well-known, the other not—block the road to peace. Unanswerable I Questions I don't have the I answers. But I do know I what the tough...
PROGRESSIVE:SUZANNE F. SINGER
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint Baghdad and Jerusalem are worlds apart but tied together by the past— and the future. By the Rivers of Babylon My husband is in Baghdad. I sit in Jerusalem. We...
FORUM
FORUM "Readers React Are there organizations that work to make synagogues accessible to the disabled? Defending Lemer Rebuke and Reproach It's a sad commentary on Moment that it seems to be...
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Fifty Seven Sisxty-Three A JEWISH YEAR Calendar »¦ August 10 Celebrate Tu B'Av—The Ancient Jewish Holiday of Love. Performance by The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. Greek Theatre, Los Angeles;...
Francine Klagsbrun
Francine Klagsburn The Perils of Power In Iraq and at home, Jewish teachings can help the U.S. avoid the fate of ancient Rome. Years ago, in another lifetime, I wrote a master's thesis in art...
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager "The Great Hatred" The roots of anti-Semitism reach back to Mt. Sinai. Ever since I first learned about the Holocaust, it has preoccupied me. I cannot explain why, since I am a...
SURVEY:What do YOU think?
SURVEY WHat do YOU think? What will be the ultimate resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict? Will the Intifada go on forever? Jonathan Schanzer, Soref Fellow, Washington Institute for Near...
OLAM:A Jew by Any Other Name
SHANKS, HERSHEL
OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD A Jew by Any Other Name hershel shanks Last February, the world's most eminent sociologist, Robert King Merton, passed away at age 92. Now it can be told: For nearly a...
MOMENT OF TRUTH
MOMENT OF TRUTH God I remember it was a sunny afternoon. There I sat, in front of Esther's grave, talking to the stone. After seven years together, that was the onfy type of conversation we had...
Happy Few Fish
MILES, WILLIAM F.
Happy Jew Fish william f. miles He was an otherwise ordinary teacher of English in China whose work had morphed into mastering Jewish civilization and history. " >V he fish are ...
Los Pisos de arena (Sand Floors)
Los Pisos de arena (Sand Floors) My grandfather and I Would argue Over where we sat In the synagogue Why the dark curtain Kept us apart I wanted to pray at his side Feel his breath While I sang...
The Put Up or Shut Up Generation
Epstein, Jeremy
The Put Up or Shut Up Generation jeremy epstein Those of us who grew up with a strong, Israel-centric identity are faced with a big and growing hypocritical reality about where to make our...
What Did You Do in The War Mommy?
What Did You Do in The War Mommy? The Changing Face of Israel's Female Soldiers SAMUEL M. KATZ H E OPERATOR 5, weighed down by their heavy Kcvlar body armor, moved silendy across the...
Living a Year of Kaddish
Living a year of Kaddish For me, kaddish was as much a chain as a prayer-a chain that continued to connect me tojny parents and will some day connect me to my children. I TURNED FIFTY m...
Terrorism on Trial
HEILMAN, URIEL
TERRORISM ON TRIAL Civil Lawsuits Give Victims and Their Families a New Weapon URIEL HEILMAN ARLY ON THE MORNING of Sunday, April 9, 1995, a young American named Alisa Fla-tow boarded Egged bus...
Gallery
GALLERY This photograph is one of a larger set of pictures of the Western Wall in Jerusalem taken over a period of 15 years since their aliyahby the father-and-son team Sandu anil Dinu...
No, He Had No Banana ...Of Faith and Reason
MAN, RICHARD ELLIOT FRIED
NO, HE HAD NO BANANA of the Faith and Reason IN OUR JUNE 2003 ISSUE we published an article by Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, entitled, "If It Looks Like a Banana ... It May Be a Banana" in which he...
BOOKS:Allies In Arabia
SCHRÄG, CARL
Books, Music & Video BOOKS Allies In Arabia Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism Dore Gold Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2003. 309 pp $27.95 REVIEWED ...
A Guide to the Soul-Doctors of Our People's Past
RIEMER, JACK
A Guide to the Soul-Doctors of Our People's Past Wrapped in a Holy Frame, Teachings and Tales of the Hassidic Masters Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Josseyflass, San Francisco, CA:, 2003., 352...
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
FOGELMAN, EVA
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank Carol Ann Lee New York: William Morrow, 2003 411 pp, hardcover $26.95 REVIEWED BY EVA F0GELMAN The story of Anne FrankTias been rehashed ad infinitum. Versions...
contributors
Contributors Maijorie Agosin ("Los Pisos de arena, Sand Floors") is a poet, human rights activist and professor of Latin American Literature at Wellesley College. She is the author of several books...
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