In a Moment
IN A MOMENT If you were like me, you didn't read much during Desert Shield and Desert Storm; even the daily paper was too slow to meet the pace of fast-changing news. Only television seemed to meet...
...In the Bush administration, however, Jews fill many of the policy positions...
...Yet their very coming is, as Fackenheim tells us in "The Russians at Rosh Hashanah," p. 28, an act of faith...
...The rest you'll have to explore yourself...
...49-52) disagree with Rabbi David Golinkin's first column, in which he concluded that an unmarried woman should not become pregnant by artificial insemination...
...Now Rabbi Golinkin takes on a wrenchingly difficult question that more and more Jews must face (p...
...In "Of Theology and the Red Sox," p. 40, a moving memorial tribute to baseball commissioner and Yale University president Bart Giamatti, Dobrusin explains how his own love of baseball helps him in the pulpit...
...Yet there is a dark side to this Jewish effort to prove that we, too, can "play ball," as John Hoberman explains in "Why Jews Play Sports," p. 34...
...Now that the Persian Gulf war is over, we can return to a more reflective stance...
...In a guest column (p...
...Eric Rozenman explains why in "Jewish Arabists at the State Department," p. 24...
...In a more ruminative mood, renowned philosopher Emil Fackenheim talks about religious aspects of what is, as everyone knows, a very secular aliyah...
...In a companion piece, Rabbi Robert Dobrusin finds spiritual meaning in baseball...
...Several fascinating letters (pp...
...For many Jews, sports have been the ticket of admission into "real" American society...
...Is it an impossible dream...
...Arab fears at this development have proved unfounded...
...The State Department used to be known as a den of Arabists...
...Failure to reform may lead to the country's greatest yeridah (emigration) yet In "Israel's Economy May Doom Soviet Aliyah," p. 30, Bainerman identifies the looming obstacles and suggests some innovative remedies...
...20), journalist David Prycejones examines the Arab code of honor and shame that dominated the war and asks whether that will continue to be a mainstay of Arab thinking as we begin the search for peace and stability...
...18) dreams of a Palestinian democracy...
...It cannot replace the need for Israel to guarantee its own security, but it is interesting to think about conditioning a settlement of the Palestinian issue—whatever its other provisions—on the creation and maintenance of a truly democratic Palestinian government...
...That's only part of what you'll discover in this issue...
...In the end, it will fail, predicts Joel Bainerman, unless Israel reforms its economy to use the enormously valuable skills Soviet Jews are bringing with them...
...Our new Responsa column has aroused enormous interest...
...Another long-term issue concerns the miracle of Soviet aliyah (immigration to Israel...
...unfortunately all the old issues are still there—many, however, with a new twist...
...Interestingly, both Prycejones and Halkin enlist as a possible analogy the post-World War II Japanese experience in converting a basically traditional, nondemocratic country into a working democracy...
...Only television seemed to meet the need for minute-to-minute coverage...
...Here is an opportunity, he says, if only the Arabs will seize it Somewhat the same thought inspires another guest columnist, the Israeli writer Hillel Halkin, who (p...
Vol. 16 • April 1991 • No. 2
