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Vol. 033 Issue 002 (March 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 Olmert countered that throughout most of his adult life he had "sifted through the range of facts,"choosing those that convinced him that compromise was...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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RIBUTORS Jody Bolz ("Mutanabi Street") is the author of A Lesson in Narrative Time. Her poems have appeared in The American Scholar and Ploughshares. She edits America's oldest poetry journal,...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS The Bible never commands followers to subdue or kill infidels now and forever. By contrast, the Koran does so repeatedly. For example, Sura 8:12: "I will cast terror into the hearts of...
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OUR PRAYER, OUR PROBLEM
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Gorenberg, Gershom
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OPINION GERSHOM GORENBERG Our Prayer, Our Problem Historically, perhaps it's understandable that Jews responded to slaughter with hope for a "vengeful redemption." Nine hundred years later,...
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THE PALESTINIAN IN THE BACK SEAT
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RAGEN, NAOMI
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OPINION NAOMI RAGEN The Palestinian in the Back seat One by one the cars pulled into the army checkpoint to be inspected. I tensed. How, exactly, were we going to explain the presence of a...
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HEALING THE WORLD ISN'T JUST A LIBERAL THING
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Breger, Marshall
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OPINION MARSHALL BREGER Healing the World Isn't Just a Liberal Thing Unfortunately, tikkun olam "liberal style" seemingly ignores social action towards the Jewish poor and the welfare of Israel...
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A SPIRITUAL MOMENT
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A SPIRITUAL MOMENT It's past midnight. I'm alone in a cemetery in Queens. I'm not literally alone; hundreds of people come and go all night. But I'm alone with my reflections, trying to compose my...
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THE JEW THAT HITLER SAVED
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HISTORY BOX The Jew That Hitler Saved The darkest question hanging over recent history is perhaps one for which there may never be a satisfactory answer: What drove Adolf Hider's desire to...
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WHAT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN WOMAN WANT
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FILM WATCH What Israeli Palestinian Women Want "Men feel most comfortable when their women sit at home and think only about cooking, clothes, how much money they will bring, how much they can get...
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THE POWER SCHMOOZE
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JEWISH WORD The Power Schmooze My first move to Washington, 18 years ago, was an introduction to schmoozing. Israelis didn't really schmooze back then. Israelis talked, argued, vented. But when...
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A MIDDLE EAST MARSHALL PLAN
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JEWISH ENTERPRISE A Middle East Marshall Plan As it did for many, the September 2001 terrorist attacks got Ron Bruder thinking. Not about developing new shopping malls, his profession, but about...
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WHAT DOES JUDAISM SAY ABOUT BULLYING?
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ASK THE RABBIS What does Judaism say about bullying? Sephardi Bullies are typically motivated by a need to address their own insecurities and feelings of weakness or incompetence. They seek out...
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A CRUSADER RISING
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Miller, Sue Katz
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A Crusader Rising by Sue Katz Miller As a young girl, Devra Lee Davis, her brother Sam and her parents would sit out in lawn chairs on warm summer evenings to watch the fiery spray of sparking...
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POEM
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Bolz, Judy
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Mutanabi Street In March 2007, a car bomb exploded in the heart of Baghdad's centuries-old literary center, igniting bookstores and stationery shops. Pages flit above the ruined bookstalls: blank...
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GALLERY
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GALLERY When the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E., the rabbis had to find a new way to celebrate Passover, until then a pilgrimage festival centered around eating lamb roasted...
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DO WE DIVIDE THE HOLIEST HOLY CITY?
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Katz, Mandy
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DO WE DIVIDE THE HOLIEST HOLY CITY? Meir Shalev HlLLEL HALKIN Amos Elon Etgar Keret Naomi Ragen Amos Oz Ali Qleibo Ali Khalili Sayed Kashua Ghassan Khatib Elias Zananiri "JERUSALEM contains...
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HOW JEWS GOT THEIR LAST NAMES
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Zax, David
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How Jews Got Their Last NAMES BY DAVID ZAX On the boat to America, a fellow steerage passenger tells him his name sounds too Jewish and suggests that he choose a new one before he arrives in New...
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ARE YOU THERE JUDY?
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Tanabe, Karin
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ARE YOU THERE JUDY? JUDY BLUME, one of our most beloved English language children's authors, is now an icon: the sage whose novels answered everything you wanted to know when you were growing up...
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GUIDE TO CAMPUS & SUMMER PROGRAMS
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ADVERTISING SECTION Momf.ni' Magazine's Guide to Camps & Summer Programs FOR INFORMATION ON ADVERTISING IN MOMENT EMAIL: MARKETING@MOMENTMAG.COM OR GO TO WWW.MOMENTMAG.COM EAGERLY ANTICIPATING...
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HIGHER LEARNING GUIDE
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ADVERTISING SECTION Moment Magazine’s Higher Learning Guide THE FIRST KNOWN PLAN to establish a school of higher learning for American Jews promised every graduate a reward. “Each Scholar,”...
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ISRAEL GUIDE
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FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN Olmert countered that throughout most of his adult life he had "sifted through the range of facts,"choosing those that convinced him that compromise was "forbidden...
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THE BOOK GUIDE
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the BOOK guide A REVIEW OF CURRENT BOOKS !..-; ., :J |»0 BY ADVEK >Ml F'Jk READERS FO ENj... BONDAGE OF THE MIND R.D. Gold Bondage of the Mind is "the most important book of its kind in the...
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HAIL TO THE PASTOR IN CHIEF
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Haberman, Clyde
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BOOK REVIEWS Hail to the Pastor in Chief Clyde Haberman God in the White House: A History 1960-2004 By Randall Balmer, Harper One 2007, $24.95, pp. 240 John Kennedy's victory in the 1960...
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THE JEW WHO READ AMERICA
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Schechmer, Mark
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The Jew Who Read America Mark Schechner Alfred Kazin: A Biography By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press 2007, $35, pp. 452 Any account of American intellectual history in the last century is...
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THAT HILARIOUS OLD SWASTIKA
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Heller, Steven
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That Hilarious Old Swastika Steven Heller We Have Ways of Making You Laugh: 120 Funny Swastika Cartoons By Sam Gross Simon & Schuster March 2008, $20, pp. 128 The swastika is not inherently...
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THE LAST TEMPTATION
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GAY, PETER
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The Last Temptation Peter Gay How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin By Deborah Hertz Yale University Press, 2007, $38, pp. 276 From the introduction...
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PUBLISH -A-KID
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publish-a-kid Milkweed is an intriguiging story set in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust of World War II. It tells the story of Misha, an 8-year-old orphan who lives with a group of Jewish...
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MOMENT BOOK CLUB
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MOMENT BOOK CLUB MARCH'APRIL 2008 Bee Season By Myla Goldberg Anchor, 2001 From one point of view, ' SH^M^f this debut novel by Myla Goldberg seems familiar. ^^HB^Pf At its center is a...
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