In A Moment

IN A MOMENT Our cover story, "Lovesong: Becoming a Jew," p. 32, is adapted from Julius Lester's moving autobiography (to be published by Henry Holt and Company in January 1988), in which he...

...His articles have appeared in the Mew York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Jerusalem Post and other publications In "Rekindling Contemporary Judaica" (p 28), Israeli and American creators of handcrafted menorot help us experience a spirit of rededication as we celebrate Chanukah this year...
...In a reversal of commonly held notions and with a historian's eye for trends, Sachar explains how the 1967 Six-Day War contained the seeds of tragedy and the 1973 Yom Kippur War the seeds of compromise Sachar also analyzes the situation on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, the impact of Soviet immigration to Israel, and the prospects for working relationships between Israel and her neighbors Professor of modern history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Sachar is also a consultant and lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs for numerous government organizations...
...In 1986 he was selected as the Massachusetts State Professor of the Year Lester also hosted and produced a radio program of interviews and music for eight years and hosted a live television talk show for two years...
...The photo credit "Mark Hanauer/Onyx" was inadvertently omitted m last month's issue, on the picture of chef Barbara Tropp in the opening spread of "Jewish Superstar Chefs" (p.41...
...Singer's latest book, Passage to a Human World- The Dynamics of Creating Global Wealth has just been published by the Hudson Institute...
...Author Miriam S. Cohen is MOMENT staff editor...
...Children's books for Jewish readers are improving in quality and increasing in number, according to Naomi S. Morse, head children's librarian at the White Oak branch of the Montgomery County Public Library in Silver Spring, Maryland...
...Soviet emigrants who give up on the West and return to the USSR are front page news in the Soviet press, Stefani Hoffman tells us in "Soviet Presswatch—Israel as Portrayed by Soviet Emigrants Who Return to the Motherland" (p 46...
...IN A MOMENT Our cover story, "Lovesong: Becoming a Jew," p. 32, is adapted from Julius Lester's moving autobiography (to be published by Henry Holt and Company in January 1988), in which he describes his 1982 conversion to Judaism Lester's insights into what it means to be Jewish enable those of us who take our religion for granted to see it with the eyes of someone exploring Judaism lovingly for the first time...
...He is an accomplished singer and has recorded two albums of original and traditional songs A major figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, much of Lester's writing has reflected his concerns as a civil rights activist Tensions among Jewish groups threaten Israel's survival more than conflicts with the Arabs, says Howard M. Sachar, historian of modern Israel and author of a two-volume History of Israel (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979 and Oxford University Press, 1987), in a MOMENT interview with editor Hershel Shanks (p 14...
...Her office, which has implemented measures designed to help victims of crime, achieved the highest conviction rate in New York City in 1983 and 1984...
...She was also instrumental in pressuring the Justice Department to begin investigating suspected war criminals living in the United States and she wrote the law authorizing their deportation from the country Now district attorney in Kings County, New York, Holtzman helped revolutionize the treatment of child sex abuse cases in New York state...
...Singer foresees the possibility of a world with 500 million Jews, as an increasing number of converts are drawn to a Jewish way of life and to Jewish values A lawyer and the president of The Potomac Organization, Singer con-mqa suits and writes on corporate and military strategy and on public policy questions like the conflict in Central America, arms control and environmental issues He helped found the Hudson Institute in 1961 and served as its president for eight years...
...Morse, who has written articles about the positive values imparted to children by the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, suggests that all of the books she reviews here provide worthwhile reading for Jewish children...
...Morse reviews 14 recently published books in ' 'New Books for Jewish Children" (p...
...Hoffman edits a monthly summary and analysis of the Soviet press called The Soviet Union and the Middle East (published by Hebrew University), which includes translations of Soviet media interviews with returned emigrants and the accounts they give of dreadful living conditions in Israel and the United States Hoffman lives in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and works as a Russian-English translator She is currently completing a translation of the memoirs of Soviet emigre Natan Sharansky In "A Futurist Looks at the Jewish Future" (p 24), Max Singer explains how major global changes now occurring will provide a window of opportunity for Judaism in the next 100 or 200 years...
...He is also the author (with Aaron Wildavsky) of Beyond Containment (ICS, 1983...
...He has taught modern European, Jewish and Middle Eastern history Sachar has served as the director of Brandeis University's Jacob Hiatt Institute in Jerusalem, and has written ten books including Diaspora, Egypt and Israel, Aliyah and From the Ends of the Earth The U.S government should create a special commission to examine its role in allowing Nazi war criminals to immigrate to and live in the United States, Elizabeth Holtzman advocates in "Investigating America's Postwar Complicity With Nazi War Criminals" (p...
...Thereafter, he directed the World Institute, a strategy advisory organization based in Jerusalem...
...Currently a member of the department of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Lester also serves on the faculty of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Program...
...42) Holtzman was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, where she served from 1973 to 1981 She was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon...
...Lester has written six books of non-fiction, six of fiction including children's literature, a volume of poetry, and more than a hundred essays and reviews in a variety of learned journals and popular magazines Among his literary awards are the New York Times Outstanding Book Award, the Newberry Honor Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award...

Vol. 12 • December 1987 • No. 9


 
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