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Vol. 031 Issue 004 (August 1 2006)
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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 On the block where I grew up, there were both Jewish and non-Jewish families and no fences between backyards. We children raced throughout the neighborhood, chasing...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Evan R. Goldstein ("Is the Iraq War Good for Jews and Israel?") is a Washington, DC based writer and a contributing editor to Moment. Nonna Gorilovskaya ("Stranded in...
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OPINION
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SHANKS, HERSHEL
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OPINION HERSHEL SHANKS Rediscovering the Lost Judaisms Piecing together the puzzle of our ancient past Lost Christianities are hot. Write a book about them and there's a good chance you will...
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OPINION
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SINGER, SUZANNE F.
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OPINION SUZANNE F.SINGER An Inheritance of Words How to decide what to leave behind Lately, I've been thinking about words—my words—those that may be a piece of me worth leaving behind for my...
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OPINION
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POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
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OPINION LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN A New (Old) Wise Woman Why is it that we rarely hear of the deeds of Serach bat Asher? Have you ever heard of Serach bat Asher? Until I read about her in Rabbi...
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OPNION
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PRAGER, DENNIS
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OPNION DENNIS PRAGER The New Kosher Crisis Is our way of killing animals still the most humane? In more than 30 years of lecturing and writing about Jewish life, I have helped bring many Jews to...
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OPINION
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Klinghoffer, David
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OPINION DAVID KLINGHOFFER In Defense of Intelligent Design Why Maimonides would not have sided with Darwin Jewish tradition prides itself on rationality, emphasizing knowledge of God over mere...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS AIPAC & Israel Time for Change I found Nathan Gunman's June 2006 "AIPAC & Israel" illuminating and troubling. My family and I supported AIPAC in the past, and I believe that AIPAC has...
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THE MOMENT TEN
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THE MOMENT TEN TEN MUSICIANS WITH JEWISH ROOTS(OR SO RUMOR HAS IT...) Few know that Lou Reed—the man behind "Walk on the Wild Side" and the legendary Velvet Underground who defined avant-garde...
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FILM WATCH
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FILM WATCH The personal essay film must be one of the most difficult cinematic genres to execute. Along with its slim financial rewards, those who make such films may be accused of indulging in...
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THE JEWISH WORD
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THE JEWISH WORD Dancing the Hasbara It might just be one of the most popular euphemisms in today's Jewish-American English. Hasbara (haz-ba-rah), Hebrew for "to explain," has become the...
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JEWISH ENTERPRISE
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JEWISH ENTERPRISE Remembrance of a House Past As a psychoanalyst, Ron Balamuth is used to coming to terms with the past. In this case, the past is a house on 7 Koscielna [Church] Street, near...
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ASK THE RABBIS
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ASK THE RABBIS Humanist Politicians, we well know, are specialists at avoiding responsibility for their actions gone awry and their insensitive misstatements that bring hurt "If I happened to...
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Talking Jewish With Deborah Tannen
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Orlins, Susan Fishman
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Talking Jewish With Deborah Tannen Susan Fishman Orlins It was Thanksgiving 1978 in Berkeley. Some guests brought cranberry sauce, some brought sweet potato pie; Deborah Tannen—who was analyzing...
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The Origins of Jewish Speak
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The Origins of Jewish Speak How did the Jews of Eastern Europe come by their "high-involvement" conversational traits? There's no one opinion on the matter, but several scholars believe they...
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Encounter With My Mother, Eight Years After Her Death
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ROSENSAFT, MENACHEM
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Encounter With My Mother, Eight Years After Her Death Menachem Rosensaft When my mother died in 1997 at the age of 85,1 thought I knew everything there was to know about her. Born Hadassah, or...
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Trying to Pray
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Trying to Pray New Year and this synagogue is a packed ship, The air is water with thick language paddling up through it towards the Holy One. The old prayer book, its frayed black covers, the...
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MOMENT GALLERY
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MOMENT GALLERY New York by Ben Shahn, New York, 1947 One of the most famous of the artists known as Social Realists, Benjamin Zwi Shahn emigrated with his Orthodox family from Lithuania to...
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Courting Conversos
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Courting Conversos Mexican descendants of forced converts to Christianity return to Judaism Congregacion Hebrea de Baja California sits in a hilly well-to-do neighborhood of La Mesa in the...
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Mexico and its Jews
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Mexico and its Jews Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity during the Inquisition fled to what was then called Nueva Espana (New Spain) to avoid persecution. Yet, seven years after...
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BEHIND THE BEATLES
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Epstein, Brian
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BEHIND THE BEATLES Brian Epstein Brian Epstein, the man who discovered the Beatles and shaped them into the biggest music sensation of the 20th century, died 40 years ago at age 32. The pivotal...
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The Iraq War: Is it Good for the Jews- and Israel?
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The Iraq War: Is it Good for the Jews— and Israel? In the debate about the Iraq war, the role of Israel and, more broadly, of Jews has been, in the words of journalist Michael Kinsley, the...
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Notes on Jewish Beauty
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Leung, Isaac
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Notes on Jewish Beauty (or; Tamara Herschel) Isaac Leung 1often go to the Travis Perkins lumberyard on the roundabout off Harrow Road to get wood cut. It's a good place to get a piece of lumber...
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2006 Guide to Jewish Music
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2006 Guide to Jewish Music Jewish music is an integral part of our lives. Not only is music the centerpiece of our celebrations, holidays and special community events, it's also an essential key...
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Books of Jewish Interest
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Books of Jewish Interest A review of current books selected by advertisers for readers to enjoy. Contemplate: The International Journal of Cultural Jewish Thought Contemplate gathers the best...
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Stranded in Absurdistan
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Gorilovskaya, Nonna
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Stranded in Absurdistan Nonna Gorilovskaya There are two major theories on why Russian jokes became less funny after the collapse of the Soviet Union. First, communism provided an inexhaustible...
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A Window into the Jewish Mind
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RIEMER, JACK
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A Window into the Jewish Mind Jack Riemer The four greatest commentators of the Middle Ages were Rashi, the outstanding Ashkenazic scholar; Ibn Ezra, the leading Sephardic scholar; Ramban, who...
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The Indefinable Jewish Play
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Merwin, Edward
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The Indefinable Jewish Play Edward Merwin What is Jewish theater? In their new anthology, 9 Contemporary Jewish Plays, editors Ellen Schiff and Michael Posnick offer up a smorgasbord of plays...
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A Moment With Avner Mandelman
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A Moment With Avner Mandelman Author of Talking to the Enemy For a Stanford MBA grad who runs a money management firm in Toronto and writes only half an hour a day, Avner Mandelman has an...
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A Moment With Kofi Annan
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A Moment With Kofi Annan Author of Confronting Anti-Semitism Since Israel joined the United Nations in 1949, its membership has been at once a sign of the world community's acceptance of the...
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SPICE BOX
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SPICE BOX The greatest band ever SUBMITTED BY EVA CROPP. GIRARD OHIO AS SEEN ON JAMAICA The price is right SUBMITTED Br DEBORAH KAILER, CAMARILLO CA Sing along to Hav O'Nagila SUBMITTED BY...
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