In A Moment
IN A MOMENT The intifada has moved beyond throwing rocks and harassing Israeli troops. It has become a politically sophisticated movement aimed at building a Palestinian state, says Joel Greenberg...
...He has written extensively on Holocaust literature including Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana, 1988...
...To the surprise of his peers and fellow citizens, Toscanini rejected Mussolini, the Third Reich and its allies, and became a strong friend to Israel...
...Rabbi Irving Greenberg describes the power struggle that ended with a secular body—Israel's Knesset— creating a Jewish holy day in "The Struggle Over a Date for Yom haShoah" (p...
...18), some of the emigres are interviewed by Lynne Reaves, a freelance reporter stationed in Rome...
...Before he was appointed to his position by Ronald Reagan, Schifter served as deputy U.S...
...Schulweis is rabbi at Temple Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California...
...For the future, Schulweis says, we need to find a theology that binds us to all humankind as well as to one another...
...In "When Toscanini Went to Palestine" (p...
...see review, p. 51...
...Greenberg is the president and a founder ofCLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, an organization that promotes Jewish education and unity...
...After completing his army service he came to the United States for college, and completed an M.A...
...Holocaust memorials in Germany make the events of the Holocaust seem antiseptic and abstract, while memorials in Poland downplay the extermination of the Jews and emphasize the destruction of Poland, says James E. Young in "Memory and Myth: Holocaust Memorials Mix History with National Ideals" (p...
...It has become a politically sophisticated movement aimed at building a Palestinian state, says Joel Greenberg in "Where Is the Intifada Heading...
...For the past several years Golinkin has attended the public observance of Yom haShoah at the Capitol in Washington, D.C...
...asks Steven Feldman, a former writer for Time-Life Books, who finds that the immigrants' Jewish identities become stronger the longer they live in the United States (p...
...representative on the UN Human Rights Commission...
...government or the Jewish community expected when they pressed the Soviets to let the Jews out, says Richard Schifter in "Soviet Jewish Emigration: The Next Stage" (p...
...44), Harvey Sachs reveals a little-known side to Arturo Toscanini: the man of principles who would not support Fascism's racist attitudes...
...One year, moved by the sea of tulips blooming in the park outside the building, he decided that planting tulips, especially yellow tulips, would be an appropriate symbol of hope on Yom haShoah...
...Born in Philadelphia, Greenberg emigrated to Israel with his family in 1970...
...W. W. Norton, 1988...
...Young compares Holocaust memorials in Germany, Poland, the United States and Israel and analyzes how history is created as well as reflected in Holocaust memorials...
...Boycotts oflsraeli products and talks with Israeli politicians are on the Palestinian agenda as the intifada poses new kinds of challenges to Israel...
...In "Now We Have American Refuseniks" (p...
...Arlington, Virginia and Columbia, Maryland...
...The choice of a date for Yom haShoah set off a heated controversy in the Jewish world...
...representative in the UN Security Council, and as U.S...
...in Middle East history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...Yom haShoah is one of the newest observances in the Jewish calendar and is commemorated in public ceremonies throughout the world, yet we have no ceremony for observing Yom haShoah in our homes, writes Rabbi Noah Golinkin...
...Under the patronage of the president of Italy, Sachs organized the exhibition, "Arturo Toscanini from 1915 to 1946: Art in the Shadow of Politics," which was shown in New York, Tel Aviv and Budapest in 1987...
...Originator of the National Hebrew Literacy Campaign sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, Golinkin founded Hebrew Literacy Publications, Inc...
...Soviet Jews who waited for years to get out of the USSR find themselves waiting again in Ladispoli, outside Rome...
...Young is in Israel, on leave from his position as assistant professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to complete work on his second book, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning in Europe, Israel and America...
...Sachs, himself a conductor, is director of the newly established Arturo Toscanini Documentation Center and Historic Archive of Conducting in Parma, Italy...
...He has written on various aspects of Toscanini's political commitment, including a biography, Toscanini (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978...
...He is also the author of several Hebrew textbooks, including While Standing on One Foot (HLP 1986), which teaches adults to read Hebrew in a single day, and Shalom Aleichem (HLP, 1978...
...And the United States may be unwilling to let all of them into this country as refugees...
...Polish-born Golinkin, a student at the Jewish Theological Seminary during the Holocaust, organized a committee at the time to save European Jewry and convened two interseminary conferences to mobilize both rabbinical and Christian seminary students...
...With greater numbers of Soviet Jews permitted to leave the Soviet Union, and the majority of them choosing to come to the United States, the expense of absorbing them may become a bigger burden than the U.S...
...A Jerusalem Post West Bank correspondent for the past three years, Greenberg gives an insider's view of the Palestinian uprising...
...Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Sachs has conducted orchestras in Canada and in Italy, where he now resides...
...Golinkin has served as the rabbi to congregations in Knoxville, Tennessee...
...He wrote the script Tor the PBS television documentary, "Toscanini, the Maestro," which was televised in the United States in January 1989, and is scheduled to be shown this year throughout Europe and Asia...
...The time has come when Jews must go beyond the concept of the Holocaust to bring us together, says Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis in ' 'The Holocaust No Longer the Foundation of Our Unity" (p...
...How Jewish Are Soviet Immigrants...
...As assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs for the past four years, Schifter monitors human rights around the world and presents Congress with an influential annual report evaluating human rights practices...
...Harper & Row, 1988), which was translated into eight languages, and Music in Fatcist Italy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987...
...He proposes remembering the heroism as well as the tragedy in his step-by-step guide, "How Should We Commemorate the Shoah in Our Homes...
Vol. 14 • June 1989 • No. 4
