In A MOMENT

IN A MOMENT "Seminal alterations, not administrative tinkering"—that's what is called for in a deep probe of the United Jewish Appeal by the executive director who stood at its helm for 20 years....

...He argues that the U.S...
...This curiosity with connections propelled him into eight years of research regarding Columbus' true identity...
...Reflecting on that time, Waskow has thought ahead to his own final days and has written a living will to direct his caregivers how to treat him when treatment may prolong his life without hope for cure...
...Then more Germans would know that they are "implicated in the outrage that has been perpetrated against the Jewish people...
...For Debra Nussbaum Cohen, who lives within two miles of where the August disturbances between blacks and Chasidim occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the drama unfolding on her doorstep was more than any reporter could resist...
...44), Rendtorff writes that if more Jews lived in Germany, German Christians would see Judaism as a vital, living religion with a centuries-old history in their nation...
...Facing this excruciating ethical nightmare, they decided, "Three days, tops...
...Among his many books, Seasons of Our Joy (Bantam, 1982...
...During Friedman's years at UJA, longer than any other UJA executive director, he developed the Young Leadership Cabinet and the Israel Education Fund and initiated the popular missions to Israel...
...Now retired from Heidelberg University, where he served as a professor and rector, Rendtorff lectures throughout Europe, the U.S., Israel and South Africa...
...Cohen, a reporter for the JTA, writes about religion, business and women's issues and Jewish life in America...
...In "Was the Discoverer of America Jewish...
...Currently president of the Leslie Wexner Heritage Foundation, Rabbi Friedman writes frequently on Jewish needs and Israel's growth and development...
...Beacon, 1990) is widely used as a guide to the Jewish holidays and the life cycle...
...She enjoys spending time with her Lubavitcher in-laws...
...He also wrote about economic reform in Israel in this fall's issue of Policy Review, the journal of the Heritage Foundation...
...48), Cohen describes her fears as black activists dogged her movements and the police refused to act...
...It was Newton Frohlich's legal training that put him on the trail of Christopher Columbus...
...From 1982 to 1989, he taught students at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College how to work with congregations in applying Jewish tradition to present-day life issues...
...In "Why Germany Needs More Jews" (p...
...Martins, 1991), is the result of his search for the Columbus behind the legends...
...Frohlich traveled to Spain, Italy, Jerusalem, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he pored over archival documents in pursuit of clues to the mystery of whether Christopher Columbus was Jewish...
...Were the expulsion and the voyage connected...
...Donning press badge and camera, she attempted to cover the events for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), only to be singled out and harassed by blacks as a Jewish spy and criticized by Jews as insufficiently observant...
...34) Frohlich shares his findings...
...An activist and author, Waskow directs the Shalom Center, a national resource and organizing center for Jewish thought and action based in Philadelphia...
...Advocating a reading of scripture that repudiates the idea that Christianity superseded Judaism, Rendtorff exhorts the Christian community to see itself as having been added to the Jewish people, forming a new chapter in God's history with humankind...
...Following Rendtorff s first visit to Israel in 1963, Jewish-Christian and German-Jewish relations became his critical concerns...
...Prepared to face the "horrible irony" of his words, Rolf Rendtorff, a German theologian campaigning for increased Christian-Jewish dialogue in his country, says most Germans know litde or nothing about Judaism outside the traditional New Testament interpretation...
...Rosenberg is currently on staff with the Heritage Foundation, a research center based in Washington, D.C...
...In "Caught in the Cross Fire of the Crown Heights Crisis" (p...
...24), Herbert A. Friedman suggests ways to streamline the pipeline into which UJA dollars flow to Israel, to develop educational programs to inspire potential givers and to make opportunities for direct giving to meet particular needs...
...Israel wastes so much money now that another $10 billion in loans would almost surely be wasted," writes Joel C. Rosenberg...
...In "The Fringe of Life and Death" (p...
...Instead, in "Israel Needs American Pressure to Adopt Economic Reforms" (p...
...In "UJA—Exploring New Paths" (p...
...An expert in legal negotiations, Frohlich practiced in Washington, D.C., until making aliyah (immigrating to Israel) in 1976...
...and American Jews are doing Israel no favors by continuing to support the country's stagnant and bloated economy...
...50), Waskow, a leading teacher in the Jewish renewal movement, considers the religious ramifications and the modern high tech medical advances he reconciled in this will...
...After acquiring a volume of Columbus' legal papers, Froh-lich was struck by the events leading to the explorer's 1492 voyage: On March 31, 1492, a royal edict expelling the Jews from Spain was signed...
...on April 17 articles of agreement sanctioning the voyage were signed and then on April 30 Columbus received his naval commission...
...Arthur Waskow's mother pleaded with her family from her hospital bed to let her die...
...Accompanying Waskow's piece is a box on where to write for samples of living wills and for information from the Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Orthodox movements...
...He has contributed to and written several books, including The Theology of the Churches and the Jewish People: Statements by the World Council of Churches and Its Member Churches (Geneva, 1988...
...His first novel, 1492 (St...
...30), Rosenberg advocates a complete and immediate overhaul of Israel's economy in order to achieve a free market system, warning that without change the hundreds of thousands of immigrants flooding the Jewish state will not be successfully absorbed into their new country...
...While living in Israel, Rosenberg studied at Tel Aviv University and produced a documentary for the American Embassy in Israel...
...A former Washington insider, Frohlich remarked, "It had been my experience that important people—and Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, certainly were—don't do too many major things at the same time, and here in the course of a month they signed two important decrees...

Vol. 16 • December 1991 • No. 6


 
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