In A Moment
IN A MOMENT From Flatbush to Fresno, from Brighton Beach to Miami Beach—what happens to our communities when we move away from established Jewish population centers? Jews are turning up more and...
...Teller studies at the famed Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem and teaches at numerous seminaries for women in Israel...
...p. 24, demographer Sidney Goldstein scrutinizes Jewish population shifts in the United States and concludes that drastic reeducation of our community leaders and reorganization of communal resources are necessary to meet the needs of a migrating Jewish community...
...Even those who qualify as Jews halachically are completely uninformed Jewishly...
...How do we maintain our links...
...Ringler serves as executive director of Friends of Labor Israel and directs program development for Givat Haviva Institute, an educational organization that conducts progressive absorption programs for Soviet Jews...
...In 1930 only 12 percent of the American Jewish population lived in the South or the West, while almost 70 percent of American Jews lived in the Northeast...
...Even after the sexual revolution, many people don't talk about what goes on behind closed bedroom doors...
...Rabbi Fackenheim lives in Jersualem and is the author of Encounters Between Judaism and Philosophy (Schocken, 1973) and, most recently, The Jewish Bible After the Holocaust: A Rereading (Indiana Univ., 1991...
...Today nearly 40 percent of American Jews reside in the South and the West and only slighdy more than half of American Jews still live in the Northeast Do we need new national institutions to serve the needs of newly dispersed Jews...
...The rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Tamarac, Florida, Gold pursued graduate studies in mathematics before deciding to study for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was ordained in 1979...
...Goldstein recendy helped oversee the National Jewish Population Survey, the most comprehensive study of the Jewish population in the United States ever undertaken...
...He is an award-winning author of 11 books, including his most recent collection of stories, Hey, Taxi...
...Since joining the New York Times in 1973, he has covered education, suburban life, transportation, state government and religion...
...Much of this rabbinic advice Is surprisingly frank...
...Goldstein is the George Hazard Crooker Professor of Sociology at Brown University...
...In "Jews on the Move: Are We a Local or a National Community...
...He has researched and written extensively on aspects of the population of the United States, Denmark, Thailand and China...
...Odenheimer graduated from Yale University and received his Orthodox rabbinical ordination from Mestiva Tiferet Yerushalayim...
...Stanley A. Ringler, chairperson of the Soviet Jewry Committee of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis (Reform), offers Israel's Reform movement as one of the best bets for reaching Soviet Jews who for 70 years were denied both their faith and its practice...
...He and his wife, Shira Dicker, live in New Rochelle, New York, with their two children, Adam and Emma...
...According to Israel's Law of Return, many Soviet Jews who are not hala-chically Jewish qualify to immigrate...
...Hanoch Teller recounts the extraordinary 36-hour effort of a few ordinary students committed to giving the little girl a chance to survive in "Tamar's Race for Life," p. 42...
...Odenheimer lives in Jerusalem...
...Rabbi Teller is a storyteller who uses this ancient art form to teach Torah, philosophy and moral values to adults and children on five continents...
...Little Tamar Amnon lay in Tel Hasho-mer Hospital in Tel Aviv, close to death...
...p. 46...
...Goldman is a graduate of Yeshiva University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism...
...In "God in the Bedroom," p. 36, Michael Gold discovers that rabbis recommend fewer sexual taboos between wife and husband than you might guess...
...He wrote And Hannah Wept: Infertility, Adoption, and the Jewish Couple (JPS, 1988) and, for MOMENT, "Family Purity—A Fresh Look at the Mikvah" (March 1989...
...For the Council of Jewish Federations Dr...
...His translation of Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira's A Student's Obligation, a Chasidic book on the spiritual education of children, will be published this fall by Jason Aronson...
...In "My Search for God at Harvard," p. 30, he probes the intensely personal discoveries that he makes about himself and his Judaism...
...he has been covering the exodus of the Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa for nearly a year...
...An Orthodox Jew, Goldman quickly took to heart his professor's admonition that "if you know only one religion, you don't know any...
...His first book for children, The Best of Storylines, will be published this fall...
...Once they arrive in Israel, who will introduce them to Judaism...
...In searing words, Emil L. Fackenheim gives voice to this regenerative moment in Jewish history in "Was Addis Ababa Kept Open One Day Longer...
...His reflections on "The Russians at Rosh Hasha-nah," appeared in MOMENT in April...
...Only a liver transplant—never successfully carried out in Israel—could save her young life...
...Ari L. Goldman requested and received an unprecedented sabbatical from his job as religion correspondent for the New York Times to enroll in Harvard Divinity School...
...Can the Israeli and American Reform movements take up the challenge of resettling and educating thousands of Soviet Jews, asks Rabbi Ringler in "Will Soviet Otim Become Reform Jews...
...Micha Odenheimer, reporting from Addis Ababa in The Ethiopian Airlift— Radically Redefining Jewish History," p. 21, looks to the day when the children of Ethiopian Jews will marry our children, when together our future will be one...
...Yet in the Talmudic era rabbis had a great deal to say about sexual relations between husband and wife...
...His articles have appeared in the Jerusalem Report, the Jerusalem Post and the London Times and he has reported for UPI from Ethiopia...
...p, 20...
...New York City Pub., 1991...
...Jews are turning up more and more in unexpected corners of the United States...
...When 14,197 Ethiopian Jews descended to the Ben Gurion Airport tarmac during 30 miraculous hours, Zionism was reborn...
Vol. 16 • August 1991 • No. 4
