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Vol. 030 Issue 004 (August 1 2005)
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FROM THE EDITOR
FROM The EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN When my son Noah became a Bar Mitzvah in June, I had good reason to be proud. He chanted his parsha with understanding and clarity, and wrote and delivered a powerful...
CONTRIBUTORS
CONTRIBUTORS Nadine Epstein ("Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Spiritual Biography") is Moments Editor. Rebecca Frankel ("Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Spiritual Biography") is Momenfs Managing...
OPINION
Fein, Leonard
OPINION LEONARD FEIN The Good News Telegram We've a plethora of amazing young Jews Dark clouds are the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches of our people. See the silver lining? That means...
OPINION
Singer, Suzanne
OPINION SUZANNE F. SINGER Beyond Birthright A new one-year program brings young Jews to Israel If Birthright is the tantalizing appetizer, Masa— a program sponsored by the Jewish Agency to bring...
OPINION
Glickman, Henry
OPINION HENRY GLICKMAN A Retirement Plan for God Have we outgrown our relationship with Him or Her? It's time for God to step down. I mean no disrespect. Monotheism was a very good idea at the...
OPINION
PRAGER, DENNIS
OPINION DENNIS PRAGER The Divine Text For Jews to be Jews Torah cannot be man-made I have argued in Moment and elsewhere that unless a Jew regards the Torah as a divine text, Judaism dissolves...
OPINION
SHANKS, HERSHEL
OPINION HERSHEL SHANKS The Meaning of Beshert A chance encounter and a man of many hats While studying at Yale for her Ph.D. in Jewish studies (specializing in Talmud), my daughter Elizabeth...
LETTERS
LETTERS "Liberalism is based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race-Conservatism stands for the "status quo." There have always been Jews who supported the "status quo" in...
IN THE MOMENT 5765 / 2005
IN THE MOMENT 5765 THE MOMENT CALENDAR August 13,14, 16 Now in its 11th season, the Washington National Opera's Opera Camp far Kids offers free performances of Hans Krasa's Brundibar at the Round...
The Harmony & Dissonance of Daniel Barenboim
ROTHENBERG, JENNIE
OLAM THE JEWISH WORLD The Harmony & Dissonance of Daniel Barenboim Jennie Rothenberg When Daniel Barenboim strides onstage to thunderous applause at Carnegie Hall, I am struck by a profound...
Poem
Kushner, Aviya
Music Like a lyre my head moans for the girls who are taken, the young wives—and I cannot decide if I too want to be a wife, bound and also protected. or if I would rather be a lone yeller in...
It's Only the Wind:Journey to Gaza
RAGEN, NAOMI
It's Only the Wind: Journey to Gaza Naomi Ragen My husband and I are on our way from Jerusalem to Netzer Chazani, a Jewish settlement on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, to meet Roz and Paul...
Gallery
MOMENT GALLERY Teresa Serra Vasco is caretaker of the synagogue in Tornar, a small, historic town north of Lisbon. The synagogue was built between 1430 and 1460, and was closed in 1497, shortly...
Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Spiritual Biography
Epstein, Nadine
THE UNAUTHORIZED SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY BY NAD1NE EPSTEIN AN I? REBECCA ERANKEL BOB BYLAN In the early 1960s,Bob Dylan performed at tiny Greenwich Village folk clubs, acoustic guitar strapped...
The Anti-Zionists
LEIBOVITZ, LIEL
The Anti-Zionists Outraged secular and religious Jews are among Israel's fiercest opponents. Lie/ Leibovitz T 1993, when I was 17 years old, I J_lidrove my grandmother to a wedding in Jerusalem....
Berenstein's Plague
LAMBERT, JOSH
Berenstein's Plague Josh Lambert Our people were starving. Not dying yet, but suffering all the same. Ringworm seized the poultry swiftly, and the least hearty of the cattle fell to rinderpest...
BOOKS:OUR FLAWED HERO
Kampeas, Ron
BOOK REVIEWS OUR FLAWED HERO The Case for Democracy By Natan Sharansky Public Affairs, 303pp., $16.9$, 2004 Ron Kampeas Late in his surprise bestseller, Natan Sharansky takes us back briefly...
THE CONSERVATIVE REFORMER
RIEMER, JACK
THE CONSERVATIVE REFORMER Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Ktav Publishing, 352 pp., $23.60, 2005 Jack Riemer Even before...
Spice Box
SPICE BOX Hell "savior" teeth SUBMITTED BY NATHAN HELLES FROM AMBLER, PA Potato pancake parking SUBMITTED BY L.IZ21 FACHLER FROM Ii AN JOSE, COSTA RICA Need a visa for bubbe? Call...
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