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Vol. 029 Issue 003 (June 1 2004)
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Perspectives
SHANKS, HERSHEL
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint The Passion could have been a wonderful opportunity to tell the public what scholars now know about Jesus. Beyond The Passion To say that Mel Gibson, director of...
Perspectives
SINGER, SUZANNE F.
PERSPECTIVE Editor's Viewpoint "Mechinot" an "injecting" fresh Zionist ideals into the Israeli Army. A Quiet Revolution Winding through the sensuous hills of Samaria, reminded again of the...
Forum
FORUM Readers React Had Nimoy wished to make a serious attempt to expand the roles of women in Jewish religious life, his overly perfect models would have been told to keep their clothes...
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Fifty Seven Sixty-Four A JEWISH YEAR Calendar ? June 9 World-renowned cantors sing alang with the Yuval Choir in honor of Holocaust survivors at Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem....
Columnists
POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
Letty Cottin Pogrebin All in a Name Jew or Jewish? It matters what others call us— and what we call ourselves. When you ase asked to identify yourself ethnically or religiously, do you say, "I'm...
Columnists
REGER, MARSHALL B
Marshall Breger A Passion to Understand Jewish groups need to comprehend different religious perspectives—in both Christianity and Judaism. One thing I learned from the Gibson imbroglio is mat...
SURVEY
SURVEY What do You think? Between the two presidential candidates running in the 2004 election, /Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush, who would be a better ally for...
A RABBI IN THE RANKS
BRUNO, DEBRA
OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD a Rabbi in the Ranks DEBRA BRUNO The United States Army has a single multi-purpose word used by every soldier, from the lowly private to the highest commander. Hooah. It...
MOMENT OF TRUTH
MOMENT OF TRUTH The Bar Mitzvah Lesson In Lower Meriori, Pennsylvania, where gossip moves through the Jewish community with more urgency than an ambulance, Bar Mitzvah parties serve as...
The Old Man from Freiburg
GUTMANN, LUD
The Old Man from Freiburg LUD GUTMANN Iwas ambivalent about making my first trip to Germany. I remembered my mother's admonition. She said—without a doubt or qualification—that even though German...
POEM:Transparent
Transparent Tayyib studies literature at Tel Aviv University. He has a knapsack with a grammar book and a composition about Mahmoud Darwish. The knapsack is transparent because this summer with...
Jewish Again
KLUG, LISA ALCALAY
JEWISH AGAIN Five hundred years after the Inquisition, the descendants of forced converts return to their roots LISA ALCALAY KLUG I even years ago Karrie Melendrez went to sleep trnrddng she was...
The Elephant & The Flea
GLICK, CAROLINE
the ELEPHANT & the FLEA India ?r Israel Forge a New Strategic Alliance CAROLINE B. GLICK When then-Israeli Foreign Ministry Deputy Director Moshe Yegar arrived in New Delhi in June of 1991,...
Jewish Souls Inside Out
ROTHENBERG, JENNIE
Jewish Souls Insiae Out The Photographic Journey of Frederic Brenner JENNIE ROTHENBERG Driven by his quest to portray the world's Jews, Frederic Brenner has crisscrossed the planet, lugging...
Gallery
Gallery Bill Aron captured this fleeting moment at the Breed Street Shul, Los Angeles' first Orthodox synagogue, located in Boyle Heights in 1990—a time when the building was in a state of...
Israel's Family Feud
RIEMER, JACK
Books, music & Video BOOK Israel's Family Feud Real Jews: Secular Versus Ultra-Orthodox: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel Noah J. Efron New York: Basic Books, 2003. 284 pp.,...
Brooklyn Bound
Lax, Leah
Brooklyn Bound Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls Stephanie Wellen Levine New York: New York University Press, 2003. 255pp., $26.95 LEAH LAX At 15,...
Contributors
Contributors Diana Bryer ("Fiddler on the Adobe") paints the history of northern New Mexico from her studio in the Espa?ola Valley. Currendy she is illustrating a children's book by Rabbi Sandy...
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