In A Moment

IN A MOMENT "Missiles in the Middle East—Will They Upset the Military Balance?" (p. 14), asks W. Seth Carus, visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Carus analyzes the new...

...Carus analyzes the new generation of tactical ballistic missiles—20 times less costly and nearly five times faster than Israel's F-16s...
...He accuses Fein of moral posturing, which he says has no place in the debate about Jewish ideals...
...32) during his recent visit to Washington...
...MOMENT founder Leonard Fein asserts that Judaism inspires liberal thought and action...
...Two opposing political thinkers take aim in ' 'Why Jews Vote Their Values, Not Their Economic Interests" (p...
...Have we remained liberal in our ideals and voting patterns, or has there been a shift to the right...
...MOMENT editors Hershel Shanks and Charlotte Anker, and author David Epstein (Torch With Love [Prentice-Hall, 1986]), interviewed Talmud scholar Adin Stein-saltz (p...
...I have never written about things as they happened," Appelfeld has said...
...He is co-author of The Future Battlefield and the Arab-Israel Conflict (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, forthcoming) and author of many articles on the military in Israel and the United States...
...The 19871988 Visiting Scholar at the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, Fein is the author of several books including the recently published Where Are We...
...Fein is also the founder of Mazon, an organization committed to the worldwide campaign against hunger...
...Most recently, she wrote "Partners in Illusion," a movie script for an independent filmmaker...
...What are Jews likely to be concerned about in the upcoming presidential elections...
...This type of program, he believes, is essential to the future of the Jewish community...
...His monumental work is a translation into modern Hebrew, with commentary, of both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds...
...Adas Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Washington, D.C., is "Turning Singles into Spouses" (p...
...Is the Jewish community taking care of its singles...
...Carus is a former senior military analyst at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies...
...20) says Rabbi Stephen Chaim list-field, who founded a singles program there nearly a decade ago...
...Thou Shalt Get Married (Already...
...All my works are indeed chapters from my most personal experience, but nevertheless they are not 'the story of my life.' " Appelfeld is the author of several novels including the highly acclaimed To the Land of the Cattails (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986) and Badenheim 1939 (Godine, 1980), as well as The Immortal Bartfuss (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), his most recent novel, from which this piece is adapted...
...How does it feel to attend a synagogue singles event...
...Appelfeld's characters are infused with the vitality of his own experiences...
...Steinsaltz, who grew up in a non-religious home, is the director of the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and the head o{ two yeshivot in Jerusalem...
...44), Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld creates a spiritual portrait of a man who survived the Holocaust but is now so deeply engrossed in his inner being 2 MOMENT•OCTOBER 1988 that he is unable to connect with those around him...
...Jacobs told MOMENT that her favorite part of the week is Sunday morning, when she "turns youngsters on to Judaism" at a Manhattan Hebrew school...
...Lincoln Square Synagogue is often referred to as "wink 'n stare" in the singles world...
...His Babylonian Talmud will soon be translated into English...
...Two friends experience an evening of angst and find a new self-awareness while "Checking Out the Singles Scene at Shul" (p...
...A 1974 graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Listfield is currently rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Engle-wood, New Jersey...
...In the shadchen program, married congregants act as matchmakers for the area's singles...
...He is the national chair of the United Synagogue of America Commission on Singles and a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson School at Yale University specializing in Chinese language and literature...
...In 1946, at the age of 14, he landed on the beaches of Tel Aviv...
...Our cover stories trace the pressures and frustrations—nagging parents, awkward blind dates, feelings of inferiority and worthlessness—faced by Jewish men and women in their search for spouses...
...In "The Immortal Bartfuss" (p...
...Kristol is a former managing editor of Commentary magazine and co-founder and editor oi Encounter magazine...
...Kristol's most recent books are Two Cheers for Capitalism (Basic, 1978) and Reflections of a Neo-Conservative (Basic, 1983...
...A resident of New York, the Jewish singles mecca on the East Coast, Jacobs is a freelance writer of fiction and non-fiction and a former teacher and educator...
...At the age of eight, Appelfeld escaped from a Nazi work camp, wandering the forests of the Ukraine until the end of the war...
...He is the author of numerous publications including avolume on Jewish mysticism, The Thirteen-Petaled Rose (Basic, 1985), and Teshuva: A Guide For the Newly Observant (The Free Press, 1987...
...p. 26, is Betty S. Jacobs' poignant account of the disappointments and successes of the shadchen program at New York's Lincoln Square Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue that has been a magnet for unmarried Jews...
...Ten Middle Eastern nations are acquiring these missiles following their effective use in the Iran-Iraq war...
...In his article, Carus suggests measures Israel can take to counteract the resulting threat...
...There are only two issues of public policy that concern American Jews as Jews, responds Irving Kris-tol, a leading neo-conservative as well as co-editor of the journal The Public Interest, and publisher of The National Interest...
...The Inner Lip of Americas Jews (Harper and Row, 1988...
...These pieces describe the differing approaches of two urban synagogues—one Conservative, one Orthodox—to help singles find mates...

Vol. 13 • October 1988 • No. 7


 
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