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Vol. 033 Issue 006 (November 1 2008)
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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 The ancient river of Jewish thought that flows through the human subconscious touches all of us, even those of us who don't spend much time thinking about Judaism....
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Andi Arnovitz (“Three Dreams”) is the second place winner of the 2007 Moment Magazine-Karma Short Fiction Contest. Arnovitz lives in Jerusalem, where she maintains a full-time art...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS "Rather than act as a unifying force, religion often is divisive, and has demonstrably become the determining factor on important social and constitutional issues. Thus, it is no longer...
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LATKES AND CAVIAR, DOUGHNUTS WITH CHAMPAGNE!
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Frum, David
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OPINION DAVID FRUM Latkes and Caviar, Doughnuts with Champagne! Instead of making our kids "feel Jewish" by requiring them to glumly sit out the biggest holiday extravaganza of the year—or, worse,...
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HOW ISRAEL FAILED ITS ARAB MINORITY
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Alterman, Eric
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OPINION ERIC ALTERMAN How Israel Failed Its Arab Minority Wouldn't it have made sense to show the world that Jews could rise above the treatment they had received themselves? Wouldn't a thriving...
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A NEW MEANING FOR "WHO BY FIRE"
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Gorenberg, Gershom
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OPINION GERSHOM GORENBERG A New Meaning for “Who By Fire” When we arrived home from shulr we found two cops with flashlights standing in puddles of water and soot in our dark, smoke-filled...
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MIDDLE ISRAEL: MAINSTREAM, POWERFUL, UNKNOWN
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Oz-Salzberger, Fania
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OPINION FANIA O Z -SALZBERGER Middle Israel: Mainstream, Powerful, Unknown Middle Israel is happy to test all things new and exciting, from sushi and Facebook to J.K. Rowling and Quentin...
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THE MADRID CONFERENCE? A GOOD BEGINNING
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Breger, Marshall
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OPINION MARSHALL BREGER That Madrid Conference? A Good Beginning Many Muslims approached me—in the hallway, in the elevator, in the dining room—with one request: "May we talk to you? We have...
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THE GREAT JEWISH QUARTERBACK
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Friedman, Benny
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HISTORY BOX The Great Jewish Quarterback In the 1920s, when pro football occupied a lowly place in the American sports universe, the National Football League’s New York Giants were money losers...
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DAUGHTER OF EVIL
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FILM WATCH Daughter of Evil Thank God evil is not hereditary, even evil perpetrated by those who commanded the Third Reich’s death camps. Inheritance, which airs on PBS on December 10 and is...
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WILL THE REAL SHREK PLEASE STAND UP?
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JEWISH WORD Will the Real Shrek Please Stand Up? Children love Shrek, the sweet green ogre and beloved cartoon character who starred, thanks to DreamWorks, in “his” first flick in 2001. What most...
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STANDING UP FOR TRUTH
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Standing Up For Truth Asra Nomani and Daniel Pearl first met as young Wall Street Journal reporters in Washington during the summer of 1993. Pearl was Jewish, the child of Israeli immigrants;...
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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JEWISH BOOK (OTHER THAN THE LORAH AND THE TALMUD)?
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ASK THE RABBIS What is Your Favorite Jewish Book (other than the Torah and the Talmud)? Chabad Words from the heart may be lofty and inspiring, but they are emotions (regesh). Then there is soul,...
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MEET JONATHAN STUART LEIBOWITZ (AKA JON STEWART)
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Gillick, Jeremy; Gorilovsakaya, Nonna
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Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka Jon Stewart) the wildly zeitgeisty Daily Show host By Jeremy Gillick and Nonna Goldovskaya On January 11, 1999, a nervous 37-year-old comedian who could...
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POEM
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Sklarew, Myra
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Moses As you approach your mountain bed do you dream of Egypt? Or seek traces of your long journey in these moments before God lays you down like Isaac at Moriah and takes away your breathing? Do...
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NOBLE BOOKS
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Noble Books Nine Nobel laureates reflect on their favorite classic and contemporary Jewish books “I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps...
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HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE YOUR TENTS, O JACOB
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Kraus, Joe
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MOMENT MAG AZIN E-KARMA FOUNDATION FICTION Joe Kraus How Beautiful Are Your Tents, O Jacob We, the children, gather. We return to this house more suddenly than we could have imagined those few...
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THREE DREAMS
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Arnovitz, Andi
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MOMENT MAGAZINE-KARMA FOUNDATION FICTION Andi Arnovitz Three Dreams For a long time Keren wasn’t aware that she was dreaming certain dreams over and over. Her days were so intense, her work...
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YIDDISH LAND
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Sullivan, Ellen Davis
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MOMENT MAGAZINE-KARMA FOUNDATION FICTION Ellen Davis Sullivan Yiddish Land For 67 years Ruben Gedalia Petrofsky went by the name of Rudolf G. Peters because he thought it would make his life...
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THE HIGHER LEARNING GUIDE
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THE HIGHER LEARNING GUIDE SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION THE AMERICAN SEMI NAK¥ FOR CONTEMPORARY J'UD,\ISM The American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism is a traditional seminary, which offers...
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THE GIVING GUIDE
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MOMENT MAGAZINE theGl\/lNGguide A SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM American Friends of Magen David Adom is celebrating its 68th year as the authorized...
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THE ISRAEL GUIDE
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MOMENT MAGAZINE the ISRAELguide A SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION YOUNG JUDAEA ISRAEL PROGRAMS Youngjudaea’s Israel Programs stir things up again this year with new programs for ages 15 - 35. On our...
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THE BOOK GUIDE
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THE BOOK GUIDE YOGA AND JUDAISM Steven J. Gold Did sons of Abraham go to India and propagate meditation there? What precious stones from India were placed in the breastplate of the High Priest?...
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THE TUMULTUOUS LIFE OF THE SECOND MOSES
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Nadler, Allan
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BOOK REVIEWS The Tumultuous Life of the Second Moses Allan Nadler Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds By Joel Kraemer Doubleday 2008, $35, pp. 640 No figure...
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DESCENT INTO CORPORATE DARKNESS
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Stock, Robert W.
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BOOK REVIEW Descent into Corporate Darkness Robert W. Stock Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine By Diarmuid Jeffreys Metropolitan Books 2008, $32, pp. 496 One of the...
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A BOILED BREAD
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Nathan, Joan
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BOOK REVIEW The Life and Times of a Boiled Bread Joan Nathan The Bagel By Maria Balinska Yale University Press 2008, $25, pp. 288 A few weeks ago, my daughter’s friend called to talk about the...
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A PARALLEL UNIVERSE OF PAIN
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Benjamin, Ross
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A Parallel Universe of Pain Ross Benjamin The Journey By H.G. Adler Translated by Peter Filkins Random House 2008, $26, pp. 320 H.G. Adler’s The Journey is a Holocaust novel that contains no...
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TO STALIN OR NOT TO STALIN?
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Kanfer, Stefan
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BOOK REVIEWS To Stalin or Not to Stalin? Stefan Kanfer Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theater Survived Adversity Through Satire By Joel Schechter Temple University Press 2008, $39.50,...
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