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Vol. 030 Issue 002 (April 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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FROM THE EDITOR
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FROM THE EDITOR This issue marks the beginning of Moment's 30th anniversary year. We plan to celebrate all year. After all, 30 years is both a milestone and an extraordinary achievement. In the...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Leslie Berger ("Bagels for Passover") is a former staff writer for The Los Angeles Times. She lives in New York with her husband and three children. Ben Birnbaum ("What the Sheik...
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OPINION
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SHANKS, HERSHEL
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OPINION HERSHEL SHANKS Are You a 'Rooter' or a 'Resolver'? When it comes to Israel v. the Palestinians it pays to be a little of both Let me help you identify where you stand regarding the...
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OPINION
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SINGER, SUZANNE F.
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OPINION SUZANNE F. SINGER Necessary Losses—and Gains Moving to Israel, leaving memories but not liberty behind Some 20 years ago, Judith Viorst's bestseller Necessary Losses seemed to me wise...
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OPINION
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Klagsbrun, Francine
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OPINION FRANCINE KLAGSBRUN Bias on the Bima Women rabbis continue to face prejudice and discrimination It's been 20 years since the Jewish Theological Seminary ordained the first Conservative...
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OPINION
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PRAGER, DENNIS
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OPINION DENNIS PRAGER To The ADL: Pack Up and Move Based in Manhattan, the organization can't help but misunderstand American Christians The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) should move to Texas,...
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OPINION
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Fein, Leonard
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OPINION LEONARD FEIN A Pesky Little Matter of Jewish Values Or why Jewish liberals won't be swept into the dustbin of history From all the talk, you'd think the American Jewish community is...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS "Institutionalized Judaism, with its emphasis on social action and a near idolatrous adoration of both the State of Israel and the Shoah, has come up short in helping American Jews to...
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IN THE MOMENT 5765
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IN THE MOMENT 5765 THE MOMENT CALENDAR April 7-17 Schmooze with filmmakers, actors, critics and scholars when the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival returns for its fifth year, showcasing the best of...
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OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD
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Michaelson, Jay
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OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD The Virtues of Dialogue: Halacha and Homosexuality Jay Michaelson When people hear about Rabbi Steve Greenberg, a gay Orthodox rabbi, they hear a contradiction: Gay and...
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POEM:In a thin minute
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In a thin minute We want to be singing, & you won't let us You've got too much to do with your busy We lurk patiently day and night on the ledge We look down from the shelf, we see the clouds Our...
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Guess Who's Coming to Seder?
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KEMP, LOUIE
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Guess Who's Coming to Seder? Louie Kemp It was 1975.1 was sitting on a couch in a dimly lit room in Jack Nicholson's house. I was in Los Angeles on one of my rather frequent visits, when a close...
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What the Sheik Really Said About Jews, Monkeys and Swine
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BIRNBAUM, BEN
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What the Sheik Really Said About Jews, Monkeys and Swine Ben Birnbaum Late last year, The New York Times reported the following: "A statement on a Web ate by a Muslim cleric from Vancouver...
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Ghosts, Artists & Kabbalists the struggle for the soul of Tsfat
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ROTHENBERG, JENNIE
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Ghosts, Artists & Kabbalists the struggle for the soul of Tsfat Jennie Rothenberg As a young man, Rabbi Isaac Luria had a fondness for out-of-body experiences. The fact that his body was in 16th...
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GALLERY
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GALLERY To a kabbalist, the world is more than a collection of rocks, trees and other material objects. It is a matrix of energy patterns: the four letters in God's name, the interlacing triangles...
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Bagels for Passover
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Berger, Leslie
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Bagels for Passover The Whole Holy (and Unholy) Story of Kosher Food Leslie Berger Maybe it's the dusting of white flour or the bright light refracting from the icy windows, but there's a...
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GALLERY
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GALLERY Tashuv-Hey Avraham Lowenthal Like the Chinese ying-yang, these two Hebrew beys represent a coexistence of Opposdtes. The lower bey stands for the need tu receive and the upper hey...
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You Once Knew Everything
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Spechler, Diana
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You Once Knew Everything Diana Spechler Monica and I sit side by side on the edge of my bed, no more than an inch between us, the closest I've come to touching female flesh in over a year. I can...
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BOOK REVIEWS:FIRST IN THEIR CLASS FR?ULEIN
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Klapheck, Elisa
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BOOK REVIEWS FIRST IN THEIR CLASS FR?ULEIN RABBINER JONAS: The Story of the First Woman Rabbi By Elisa Klapheck, Jossey-Boss, 256pp. $24.95, 2004 THE MAIDEN OF LUDMIR: A Jewish Holy Woman and...
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CHRISTIANITY'S MAKER
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Neusrter, Jacob
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CHRISTIANITY'S MAKER Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography By Bruce D. Chilton Dmbkday, 336 pp. $24.95 2004 Jacob Neusrter A preeminent scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, Bruce Chilton...
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NOTABLES The Jewish World: 365 Days
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Berger, Maurice
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NOTABLES The Jewish World: 365 Days From the collection of The Israel Museum Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 744pp., $32.50, 2004 Masterworks of the Jewish Museum By Maurice Berger, Joan Rosenbaum, Norman...
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Six Million Paper Clips
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Schroeder, Peter W
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Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial by Peter W Schroeder & Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand Minneapolis: Kar Ben Publishing 64 pp., $1.95 Whitwell, Tennessee is a...
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Walking the Bible
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Feiler, Bruce
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Walking the Bible: An Illustrated Journey for Kids Through the Greatest Stories Ever Told by Bruce Feiler New York: HarperCollins 108 pp., $16.99 Bruce Feiler does his darnedest to walk like a...
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SPICE BOX
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SPICE BOX The Best Gift of All Firstborns Preferred SUBMITTED BY ILONA SNYDER FROM RED HOOK. NY 'Viednesday, December 8 Chanukah Celebration Menorah lighting at sunset Music, refreshments, a...
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