In A Moment
IN A MOMENT The Lithuanian-born son of a rabbi, Al Jolson was the singing sensation of his generation. His blackface performances and "Mammy" songs rocked the 1920s. But the "mammy" that figured so...
...See "Arms for the Arabs—Should the U.S...
...The U.S...
...should not be party to Arab arms buildups that are likely to drain Israel's resources...
...Being a committed Jew earned him respect in the defense community, recalls Zakheim...
...But parents should not despair...
...The fraudulent insider trading that sent Ivan Boesky to prison is anathema to Judaism, explains Nathan A. Pelcovits...
...Through exquisite illustrations and illuminations, an intriguing 15th-century Jewish medical text at the New York Public Library's exhibition of Hebrew manuscripts gives us a rare glimpse into medical procedures used in the 1400s...
...A Defense of the Vatican Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts" (p...
...top-level meetings were rescheduled to accomodate Zakheim's Shabbat observance...
...He reflects on two recently published books about Jewish business ethics, both of which maintain that Judaism's centuries-old ethical standards can foster profitable but fair business practices...
...14), executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC...
...Before becoming AIPAC's director in 1980, Dine spent 10 years as a Senate foreign policy aide, serving on the staffs of Senators Frank Church, Edmund Muskie and Edward Kennedy...
...No other country that might sell arms to the Arabs is interested in attaching such strings to its sales for Israel's protection...
...He is co-author of The Mine Questions People Ask About Judaism (Simon and Schuster, 1975) and Why the Jews?: The Reason for Anti-Semitism (Simon and Schuster, 1983...
...He is adjunct scholar of the Heritage Foundation, associate of the Center for International and Strategic Studies and recipient of the 1986 Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal...
...He was the primary selector of the material in the exhibition of Judaica from the Vatican Library, authored most of the entries in the book catalogue of the exhibit, and served as guest curator to the exhibit at the Center for the Fine Arts in Miami and co-curator at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Fine Art in Memphis...
...has little real control over the use of arms once they are sold to the Arabs, says Dine...
...Goldman is now at work on a biography of Fanny Brice...
...His Saturday night show is a call-in program which covers a wide variety of topics...
...Chief executive officer and president of System Planning Corporation International, a high technology research and manufacturing firm, Zakheim is a consultant-advisor to the secretary of defense...
...A writer and lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Pelcovits served for 30 years as a career foreign service officer...
...the other, more controversial, presenting Hebrew works owned by the Vatican...
...Miller is librarian of the Brookdale Center, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York...
...22), Herbert G. Goldman tells how the death of young Asa Yoelson's mother, the seminal experience of his life, would shape his personality and his career...
...The Vatican did not confiscate these ancient Hebrew manuscripts from oppressed Jewish communities, as some Jews have alleged, says Philip E. Miller...
...He contends that the U.S...
...Our children are losing their Jewish identities in secular America, writes Dennis Prager...
...Contrary to popular opinion, U.S...
...The Jewish Doctor 600 Years Ago" let blood and collected urine samples, MOMENT discovered (p...
...30), Miller seeks to set the record straight on this traveling exhibition from the' Vatican Library...
...Pelcovits traces his interest in Jewish ethics to his boyhood in Canton, Ohio, where his father, Rabbi Ephraim Pelcovits, was an adherent of the musar movement which stressed an ethical approach to Judaism...
...help is on the way in "Raising a Jewish Child in a Non-Jewish World" (p...
...His Sunday night talk show, ' 'Religion on the Line," features an open forum in which listeners ask questions of a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister...
...Prager is "affirmatively and publicly" Jewish, though his radio show is not...
...He is the author of several books, including Peacekeeping on Arab-Israeli Fronts: Lessons from the Sinai and Lebanon (Johns Hopkins University and West-view Press, 1984...
...Former director of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Prager is a political and social commentator on radio and television in Los Angeles where he hosts two radio shows...
...But the "mammy" that figured so prominently in Jolson's shows was absent in his real world...
...Sell Weapons to Friendly Arab States...
...In "M-M-M-Mammy's Boy," (p...
...In "Theirs or Ours...
...Dov Zakheim is Wrong—On Every Score," says Thomas A. Dine (p...
...Two exhibitions of Hebrew manuscripts opened at the New York Public Library in October, one showing Hebrew books from antiquity to the present...
...Prager is the writer-publisher of Ultimate Issues, a quarterly journal on politics and religion...
...The U.S., for example, can agree to provide necessary training and spare parts for its weapons systems only if they are not positioned so as to threaten Israel...
...See "Insider Trading is Treif" (p...
...arms sales to Arab countries help Israel's security, says Dov S. Zakheim, former deputy under secretary of defense in the Reagan administration...
...A graduate of the School of Performing Arts, New York, and Brooklyn College, Goldman spent 15 years researching Jolson prior to the publication of his book, Al Jolson: The Legend Comes to Life (Oxford University Press, 1988), from which this article is adapted...
Vol. 13 • November 1988 • No. 8
