In A MOMENT
IN A MOMENT The countdown continues in the Gulf The United States forms new alliances with old enemies while its relationship with Israel fades. Keeping a scorecard on our friends and our foes has...
...reasons for turning off television network news...
...Haim Shaked explores the likely scenarios now that Syria has unquestioned control of Lebanon...
...Heinz Jost seemed to point his lens with a suggestion of compassion Leah Shanks Gordon reviews "A Birthday Tour of Hell," the exhibit of his long-hidden photographs that is touring the U.S., p. 22...
...Fifteen years ago, a young Jew left his birthplace in Kishinev...
...Yonah Alexander considers how Iraq's Saddam Hussein can turn up the terrorist pressure worldwide while appeanng to negotiate...
...See p. 40...
...For a look on the lighter side, enjoy Byron Sherwin's tale of yeshwah study...
...a call to unmask Jewish leaders who hide their liberal views on the Palestinian question Guaranteed to stimulate—perhaps to irritate...
...Most of our photographs of the Shoah come from official German observers whose work was intended for propaganda...
...Who are the outstanding people and organizations that make a difference to the Jewish community5 moment's 21 judges selected 10 recipients from 180 nominees as the 1990 honorees of our Community Service Awards Here are the winners in the Volunteer Service, Education and Scholarship categories, p. 46...
...See p. 18...
...Keeping a scorecard on our friends and our foes has become increasingly difficult...
...Let us know what you think, too...
...Do they identify Jewishly5 How are they responding to outreach programs...
...Closer to home, the rate of interfaith marriages continues to inch—or is it leap?—up In some areas it approaches 70 percent What becomes of the children of these marriages...
...One Nazi soldier, however, in September 1941, walked the teeming streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, recording the Jews' struggle against degradation...
...Join Rabbi Zuckermandel's class in its orientation to Talmud study, p. 28 Columnists Jacob Neusner, Dennis Prager and Letty Cottin Pogrebin brisde with incisive commentaries: Why Jews didn't—and don't—accept Jesus as the messiah...
...Two adult children of such marriages have formed an organization that addresses their special problems Charlotte Anker interviewed them and others to find out about "The Children Our Parents Warned Us About " See p. 34 The Federal Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 stipulated that, to avoid contamination, an animal could not be slaughtered on the ground To comply, butchers hoisted conscious cows and sheep by a chain, suspending them head down...
...Today a Florida rabbi, Leonid Feldman shares some heartrending experiences from his return to Kishinev where he explained why he now believes in God— not Marx, p. 32 Soviet Jewish activist Natan Sharansky captures the biblical dimension of the Russian aliyah and exhorts American Jews to greater involvement, p. 16...
...This issue focuses on Syria and Iraq: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend...
...Since stunning violates the laws of shechilah, kosher slaughtering was exempted from the act...
...Some kosher slaughterhouses still hoist conscious animals Phyllis Klasky Karas asks: "Is Kosher Slaughtering Inhumane...
...Where will Syria turn as Hafez Assad pursues pan-Arabism...
...See p. 26...
...The 1978 Humane Slaughter Act requires the animal to be stunned and unconscious before hoisting...
Vol. 16 • February 1991 • No. 1
