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Vol. 032 Issue 002 (April 1 2007)
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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 Young people are deeply concerned about Darfur. I can see it in their idealistic eyes—which so clearly perceive the world's problems—and I know they are hungry for...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Michael Barach (“Driving My Mother’s Car, I Find An Unlabeled Cassette”) was Moment's assistant poetry editor. Glenn Frankel (“Linda Gradstein: NPR’s Voice from Jerusalem”) is...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS “In Britain, shrill anti-Israeli sentiment has taken hold in academia, the press and cultural institutions. The sad truth is that, as in much of Western Europe, Jews who want to be part of...
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BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE
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Guttman, Nathan
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OPINION NATHAN GUTTMAN Between Iraq and a Hard Place Why is America's strongest faith-based bloc that opposes the war—the Jewish community— sitting this conflict out? From the front lines of...
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WHO DARES CRITICIZE ISRAEL?
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POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
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OPINION LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN Who Dares Criticize Israel? It is no surprise Alvin Rosenfeld's article a furor. The casualties of his onslaughts are rational dissent and language itself. If you’re...
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IT'S THE ECONOMY, AHMADINEJAD!
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Javedanfar, Meir
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OPINION MEIR JAVEDANFAR It’s the Economy, Ahmadinejad! The photogenic Iranian president may be mugging for the world's cameras— his smile has become ubiquitous—but he has much to frown about back...
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WHICH IS MORE AMERICAN? THE BIBLE OR THE KORAN?
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PRAGER, DENNIS
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OPINION DENNIS PRAGER Which is More American? The Bible or the Koran? America derives its moral values from the Bible... If the Bible ceases to be regarded as the central text of American life,...
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JEWISH HOMELANDS GALORE
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MOMENT COUNTDOWN Jewish Homelands Galore Argentina: In 1891, wealthy German landowner Baron Hirsch proposed an autonomous Jewish state in Argentina. Claiming he had government approval, he gave a...
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FAST FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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FILM WATCH Fast Food for Thought If someone were to make a “mockumu-sical” about 9/11, it might be called Fiddler on the Roof of the World Trade Center. Complete with singing terrorists, dancing...
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A NINCOMPOOP BY ANY OTHER NAME
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JEWISH WORD A Nincompoop By Any Other Name A classic Yiddish anecdote: A shmen-drick is being knocked around by his domineering wife. In desperation he crawls under the bed. “Come out of there!”...
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A DORM WITH A VIEW… OR TWO
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JEWISH ENTERPRISE A Dorm With A View... Or Two At first glance, the hallway of the Middle East Coexistence House at Rutgers University looks like one in any other dorm: painted exposed pipes,...
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WHY ARE JEWS CALLED THE "CHOSEN PEOPLE?"
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ASK THE RABBIS Why are Jews called the “Chosen People?” Sephardic About 3,300 years ago, a tiny, beleaguered group of nomads became the trustees of a set of revolutionary ideas that, unbeknownst...
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LINDA GRADSTEIN: NPR'S VOICE FROM JERUSALEM
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Frankel, Glenn
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A JEWISH LIFE Linda Gradstein: NPR’s Voice from Jerusalem Glenn Frankel On a wet, gray January morning, Linda Gradstein was fighting a cold and the urge to go back to bed. Still, National Public...
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POEM
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Barach, Michael
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Driving My Mother’s Car, I Find An Unlabeled Cassette A voice without conviction sings, trembles between keys as one who’s prodded with a gun might pause at the threshold of a dark room. It takes...
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ON THE "ROAD" WITH THE KU KLUX KLAN
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ANNALS OF COUCH POTATO On the “Road” with the Ku Klux Klan Anonymous In my former life as an intrepid reporter, preparation for writing about America’s abundance of hate groups would have gone as...
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GALLERY
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GALLERY Rainbow Shabbat Judy Chicago's stained-glass mural, Rainbow Shabbat, depicts a diverse group of people linked around a Shabbat table. This 1992 piece, energized by her love of family and...
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MOMENT'S HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST
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Moment’s HIGH SCHOOL* Essav Contest Genocide did not die with the Holocaust, and the world's cry of "Never Again" continues to ring hollow. The truth is, the world has turned its back on victims...
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WAS EINSTEIN A JEWISH SAINT?
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Katz, Mandy
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WAS EINSTEIN A JEWISH SAINT? by Mandy Katz As usual, Albert Einstein hadn't dressed for the occasion. Most of the 40 or so young men waiting for him that Friday night in January at Princeton’s...
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IS ONE OF THE LOST TRIBES
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Prusher, Ilene R.
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Scouting for stories in Afghanistan's hinterlands, a Jewish American reporter and her Muslim Pashtun interpreter, discover they may have ancestors in common... IS ONE OF THE LOST TRIBES llene R....
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GIVING GUIDE
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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION G* * 1 J * | ivinn /Uide It's bold and it's strange: If we want to say in Hebrew "to fix a chair" or "to fix the world," we use the same word: letaken. Those of us who...
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HANNAH ARENDT'S FORGOTTEN JEWISH SOUL
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Bernstein, Richard J.
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BOOK ESSAY Hannah Arendt’s Forgotten Jewish Soul Richard J. Bernstein The Jewish Writings of Hannah Arendt Edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron H. Feldman Schocken Books March, 2007, $35, pp....
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FRANCE: EUROPE'S "MUSLIM" POWER
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Bernstein, Richard
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BOOK REVIEW France: Europe’s “Muslim” Power? Richard Bernstein Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews David Price-Jones Encounter Books 2006, $23.95, pp. 171 The French so often make it so...
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A MOMENT WITH… MICHAEL OREN
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A Moment With... Michael Oren Author of Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present Since the days of the Barbary pirates, the Middle East has loomed large in...
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