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Vol. 033 Issue 004 (July 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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FROM THE EDTITOR
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Epstein, Nadine
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FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN Many Americans and Israelis agree with writer Amos Oz that the only path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is through a two-state solution. Others take a...
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INTHEMOMENT
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inthemoment Home Issue Google Chef Todd Koenigsberg Moment is proud to announce the debut of inthemoment, a blog in which editor Nadine Epstein and other members of the Moment family will recount...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Nadine Epstein (“Anita Diamant: A Mikveh of Her Own”) is Moment's editor and executive publisher. She is the co-author of Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Traditions firm Around...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS “The wrong question is whether the rogue’s gallery of anti-Israel individuals who have associated themselves with Senator Obama are his advisors. The right question is what do these people...
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SCANDAL IN THE RABBINATE
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Gorenberg, Gershom
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OPINION GERSHOM GORENBERG Scandal in the Rabbinate Israel's Supreme Rabbinic Court effectively accepted a radical stance that conversions can be retroactively annulled. The decision is a...
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THE FAILURE OF RELIGIOUS ZIONISM
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Breger, Marshall
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OPINION MARSHALL BREGER The Failure of Religious Zionism The goal of [Israel's] rabbinate should be to serve the needs of the entire population, not merely already committed Orthodox Jews. A...
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WE ARE NOT ONE
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Alterman, Eric
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OPINION ERIC ALTERMAN We Are Not One Jews are perhaps the world's most famously disputatious people. How is it possible, then, that on what is perhaps the most contentious issue of all—the shape...
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A SPIRITUAL MOMENT
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A SPIRITUAL MOMENT There’s a line in the Psalms that says, “'Today, if you could only listen to God today!” Imagine what today would be like if we could only hear God’s voice. Imagine what this...
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WYATT EARP AND HIS JEWISH WIFE
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HISTORY SOX Wyatt Earp and his Jewish Wife Everyone else called her Josie. He called her Sadie. Josephine Sarah Marcus was a showgirl from a prosperous San Francisco German-Jewish family. He was...
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THE CITY AT THE END OF THE SEA
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FILM WATCH The City at the End of the Sea There are many reasons to see Jellyfish, which won the 2007 Camera d’Or at Cannes, but a straightforward one is to watch a movie from Israel about...
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A SHTICKL ON SHTICK
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JEWISH WORD A Shtickl on Shtick Jack Benny’s shtick was that he would forever remain 39 and stingy. Lewis Black screams and Jerry Seinfeld “yada-yadas.” Sarah Silverman is charmingly and...
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WHEN MONEY GROWS ON JEWISH TREES
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 08 When Money Grows on Jewish Trees No matter how much they emphasize their differences from one another on the campaign trail, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama...
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WHO CARES WHAT WOMEN WEAR (OR DON'T WEAR)?
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ASK THE RABBIS Who Cares What Women Wear (Or Don’t Wear)? Sephardi Modesty is one of the most fundamental of Jewish values, but is widely misunderstood and frequently dismissed as provincial,...
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ANITA DIAMANT: A MIKVEH OF HER OWN
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Epstein, Nadine
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Anita Diamant A MIKVEH OF HER OWN The queen of Jewish lifecycle BOOKS AND AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING The Red Tent is the FOUNDER OF THE WORLD S FIRST FREESTANDING PLURALISTIC MIKVEH. BY NADINE...
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POEM
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Katzel, Amy
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Absence To the man who sat alone in Covent Garden, wispy white hair, drooping eyes, slice of walnut pie, I do not know why I was drawn to you and your worn-out wooden cane, your blue...
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GALLERY
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GALLERY Temple Mount, Jerusalem 1998 Photographer Neil Folberg seeks to combine both the earthly and the celestial. The expanse of the Temple Mount and its proximity to the night sky obscures the...
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IF NOT PEACE NOW, WHAT
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If Not Peace Now, WHAT? I Israel has to take defensive action, perhaps preemptive, perhaps even nuclear, a sizeable chunk of the world is likely to go up in flames. oaaooooooaB Qoaaoaoaool ~ ¦...
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GANGSTERS GENES GUNS & GAMBLERS
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Orlins, Susan Fishman
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by Susan Fishman Orlins Gangsters genes guns & [gamblers I These days, it’s almost cool to be related to a (dead) Jewish mobster. “My mother had told me he died in an automobile accident going to...
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MEYER LANSKY'S STEP-GRANDDAUGHTER SPEAKS…
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Meyer Lansky’s step-granddaughter speaks ... Cynthia Duncan grew up enjoying regular sleepovers at the Miami Beach apartment of Meyer Lansky. She was close to her grandmother, Thelma, known as...
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THE MUSIC GUIDE
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THE GIVING GUIDE
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theGIVINGguide NATIONAL GAUCHFR FrUNITATICF fl e national Ga jc >er Foundai on iNoF)vaset:ab she I in 1‘8; as a r mpi ft argan 'a >i Jedi-c> :ec tj supi onin j atic promotiru lesear:h into the...
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THE BOOK GUIDE
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the BOOKguide Please order oooks by using th!f • -! nation beiov. ¦ ,1; o< oniin> WE ONLY KNOW MEN The Rescue of Jews in France duming the Holocaust Patrick Henry For the first time in the...
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FRANZ KAFKA AND BRUNO SCHULZ: COCKROACHES AND CROCODILES
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Kuryluk, Ewa
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BOOK ESSAY Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz: Cockroaches and Crocodiles Ewa Kuryluk The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories By Bruno Schulz Penguin Classics (New edition) 2008, $15.00, pp....
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MOMENT BOOK CLUB
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MOMENT BOOK CLUB JULY*AUGUST 2008 People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks Viking Press, 2008 People of the Book masterfully combines history and contem-porary science with historical tales of 500...
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THE DEATH OF JEWISH LODZ
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Kaufman, Michael T.
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BOOK REVIEWS The Death of Jewish Lodz Michael T. Kaufman Ghettostadt, Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City By Gordon J. Horwitz Belknap Press 2008, $29.95, pp. 416 This is a remarkable book. With...
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HE WHO DOES NOT RISE AGAIN
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Solomon, Barbara P.
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He Who Does Not Rise Again Barbara Probst Solomon The Lazarus Project By Aleksandar Hemon Riverhead Books 2008, $24.95, pp. 304 From Cervantes to Proust to Joyce, long before the clatter of...
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BACKSTABBING IN THE IVORY TOWER
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Goldberger, Leo
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Backstabbing in the Ivory Tower Leo Goldberger History Lesson: A Race Odyssey By Mary Lefkowitz Yale University Press 2008, $25.00, pp. 208 This short but important book is the personal account...
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