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Vol. 030 Issue 005 (October 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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From the Editor
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Epstein, Nadine
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FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN While I was taking a walk with my father the other day, he mentioned that public schools didn't teach Hanukah songs when he was a lad in the 1920s. He was, much to...
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Contributors
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CONTRIBUTORS Sam Apple ("Bashy's Door") who grew up in Houston, is a graduate of the creative nonfiction MFA program at Columbia University. His writing has been published in The New York Times,...
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Opinion
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SHANKS, HERSHEL
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OPINION HERSHEL SHANKS A Simple Strategy Peace is better than terrorism, but terrorism is better than war Let me put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in perspective^—not, as is often done, in...
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Opinion
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SINGER, SUZANNE F.
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OPINiON SUZANNE F. SINGER Digging Deep for David's Palace There is now new evidence of the historical Jewish presence in Israel It was Friday afternoon in Jerusalem. The Shab-bat rash filled the...
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Opinion
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Breger, Marshall
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OPINION MARSHALL BREGER Israel's Cross to Bear The Vatican and Israel must heal their troubled relationship Notwithstanding the public controversy over Pope Benedict XVTs failure to list the 2005...
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Opinion
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Felton-Dansky, Miriam
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opinion MIRIAM FELTON-DANSKY Too Square to be Hip Being radical is a Jewish tradition, but Jewish tradition is not radical Drag queens gyrated across the stage, breaking challah and passing...
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Letters
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LETTERS "It does not follow that Torah must be divine because of its brilliance or any other attribute. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was brilliant and eternally relevant, and we celebrate him as a...
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In the Moment
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IN THE MOMENT THE MOMENT CALENDAR October is Breast Career Awareness Month. It is estimated that one out of every 40-50 Ashkenazi Jews carries a mutant gene that greatly increases the risk of...
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Jewish Enterprise: The People of the Book Fairs
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Jewish Enterprise: The People of the Book Fairs Manhattan's Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center is swarming with publishers, authors, publicists, booksellers and literary aspirants of every stripe....
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ASK THE RABBIS
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ASK THE RABBIS Is there ever a time when it's all right to tell a lie? Lubavitch Hasidic Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson Instructor, Rabbinical College Chovevay Torah, Brooklyn Some years ago I was...
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JEWISH LIFE
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BIRKNER, GABRIELLE
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A JEWISH LIFE To Exist in the Heavens: Noah Feldman & the Culture War Gabrielle Birkner From the window of his 19th century farmhouse, Noah Feldman gazes out over the peaceful expanse of...
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Poem
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These These are the Days of Awe, not marked on my calendar. Their covenant with gravity lifts and loosens the leaves, a last warm breeze. I lie down in the grass. Fragments of verse circle me...
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Bashy's Door
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Apple, Sam
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ESSAY Bashy's Door Sam Apple Some of my earliest memories are of my grandmother, Bashy, singing Yiddish lullabies to me as she pushed me along the sidewalks of suburban Houston in an...
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Gallery
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MOMENT GALLERY "I am looking at the sheep in the wadi [riverbed, or oasisl. I see Janjaweed [Arab militia] coming quickly, on horses and camels, with Kalashmkovs shooting and yelling, 'Kill the...
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The Heresy of Nosson Slifkin
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ROTHENBERG, JENNIE
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The Heresy of Nosson Slifkin A young Orthodox rabbi is banned for his views on evolution Jennie Rothenberg It is a story that is making headlines nearly every day. Somewhere in the United States,...
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Darwin's Jewish Defenders
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Darwin's Jewish Defenders For the many American Jews who chouse public education lor their children, the teaching ut creationism and intelligent design is an especially weighty issue. Enter civil...
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A Leisurely Critic: Intelligent Design's David Berlinski
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A Leisurely Critic: Intelligent Design's David Berlinski Unlike the majority of Jewish scientists, David Berlinski, a self-described non-observant Jew, refuses to accept the theory of evolution....
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Salonika: Madre de Israel
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SCHLEIFER, YIGAL
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YIGAL SCHLEIFER DUCKING OUT OF THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON SUN, Rena Molho settles down on a couch in the air-conditioned lobby of the Elektra Palace, a hotel on a wide boulevard that slopes up from...
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THE GREEKS AND THE JEWS
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THE GREEKS AND THE JEWS During World War II, Creek citizens stood by as 66,000 of the country's 77,1X10 Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps. Remembering this, Jews around die world were...
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The Time of the Uprooted
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WIESEL, ELIE
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FICTION NOVEL EXCERPT ELIE WIESEL The Time of the Uprooted Peter, my child," said Ilonka, stroking his hair, "Remember that your name's Peter now. Not Gamaliel, but Peter. Remember this name:...
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AN ANCIENT QUESTION
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Klinghoffer, David
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BOOK REVIEWS AN ANCIENT QUESTION Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History By David Klinghoffer Double/by, 247pp., $24.95, 2005 Jacob Neusner David Klinghoffer's new...
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SHAME! SHAME!
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Leff, Laurel
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SHAME! SHAME! Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper By Laurel Leff Cambridge University Press, 442 pages, 2005, Jack Ri'emer When I read this book, I was...
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THE END OF FAITH:
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Harris, Sam
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THE END OF FAITH: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris W. W. Norton & Company, 336 pp. $24.95, 2005 Sam Harris's The End of Faith, winner of the 2005 PEN Award for nonfiction,...
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The History of Love
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Krauss, Nicole
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The History of Love By Nicole Krauss WW. Norton if Company, 252pp., $23.95, 2005 "Every Israelite holds the honor of his entire people in his hands." So writes Nicole Krauss in her poetic...
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Maneuvering between the An American Lives through the Intifada
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MOTRO, HELEN SCHARY
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Maneuvering between the Headlines: An American Lives through the Intifada By Helen Schary Motro Other Press, 190pp., $20.00, 2005 Maneuvering Between the Headlines delivers a vivid and engaging...
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REVIEWS
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REVIEWS Tova Mirvis, author of The Ladies Auxiliary answers questions for Moment's Book Club. 1.What was it like to grow up Orthodox in the South? As much as being an Orthodox Jew and Southern...
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SPICE BOX
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SPICE BOX is something shellfishy going on? SUBMITTED DV RABBI STEVEN KUSHNER FROM MOhTCLAIR. NJ 22 Tammuz jj7:37PM J Keeping Kosher- a discussion 7-8 PM Shabbat Service 89:15 PM 23 Tamrnuz 6...
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