In A Moment
IN A MOMENT An alarm is ringing, but few hear it yet. Although Jewish federations raised over $1 billion last year, Gerald Bubis contends in "Jewish Dollars Drying Up" (page 28) that Jewish giving...
...Although Jewish federations raised over $1 billion last year, Gerald Bubis contends in "Jewish Dollars Drying Up" (page 28) that Jewish giving is not only down, but is set to decline even further...
...Riskin is a leading voice for modern Orthodoxy, and has been instrumental in building bridges between the religious and the secular, Israel and the Diaspora, and Jews and Arabs...
...While Bubis breaks much bad news, he does highlight the growth of foundations as the only bright light on the giving horizon...
...Chanukah's message to American Jews evolves as American society changes, according to Avis Miller in "A Chanukah Message for the '90s" page 24...
...Gerald Bubis is founding director of the School of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and adjunct professor of social work at the University of Southern California...
...tax dollars recently underwrote new textbooks in Nicaragua containing religious education, writes Emily Gurnon in "Catholic Textbooks in Nicaragua—Courtesy of U.S...
...Ruth Calderon Ben-Shahar, secular Israeli and co-founder of the Elul beil midrash (page 42...
...He recommends serious investment in long-range planning and consulting creative Jews normally locked out of the federation process to chart a different course...
...Avis Miller is associate rabbi at Congregation Adas Israel in Washington, D.C...
...Jewish cooking connoisseurs Helen Nash and Lise Stern announce winners of moment's Ultimate Challah Contest (page 52...
...The bottom-line question for American Jews living in a world of choice...
...Her book reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, American Bookseller and the Forward...
...He is a former vice-president of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation Council...
...By AID using American taxpayer money to pay for the revised Nicaraguan textbooks, the government appears to have violated the First Amendment's separation of church and state...
...Irving Greenberg, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) and author of The Jewish Way (page 49...
...Emily Gurnon edited Nicaragua Update, a newsletter of the Northern California Ecumenical Council, and is currently in a double master's program in journalism and Latin American studies at the University of California, Berkeley...
...Israel must examine shifting Syrian attitudes during peace negotiations, cautions Dore Gold in "Gambling on the Golan" (page 34...
...Gold directs the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University...
...Yosef I. Abramowitz, Wexner Fellow and associate editor of moment (page 46...
...Agency for International Development (AID) support for textbooks to replace those containing Sandinista political messages...
...Hershel Shanks, editor of moment and Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls (page 48...
...The new Nicaraguan government sought U.S...
...Nine people responded—individuals for whom Jewishness takes many shapes and reasons: Samuel Heilman, social anthropologist and author of Defenders of the Faith (page 37...
...Writer, activist and teacher Rabbi Shlomo Riskin debuts as a columnist (page 17...
...and was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College...
...Jewish children's books are more abundant than ever and more beautifully illustrated, writes Sandee Brawarski in her overview of this year's offerings (page 54...
...Jennifer M. Green, young mother and fiction writer (page 39...
...moment asks "Why Be Jewish...
...While there is optimism about the possibility for a breakthrough with the Syrians, Israel will have to weigh the value of the Golan's strategic advantage and water resources against the uncertainty that Syria's aggressive intentions will change...
...Sandee Brawarski, a writer and consultant living in New York City, was formerly associate publisher of Times Books/Random House...
...Once depicted as a clear struggle of good guys versus bad guys, Chanukah today could represent a modern commitment to discovering what is worth appropriating and making Jewish from American life...
...and Hillel Halkin, American-born Israeli translator and author of Letters to an American Jewish Friend (page 51...
...Lawrence Kushner, author of God was in this place and I, i did not know (page 44...
...Taxpayers" (page 27...
...David Epstein, Washington lawyer and co-author of Torah With Love (page 41...
...U.S...
...Brawarski reviews 25 of the books parents .may want to consider for Chanukah gifts, but she laments the dearth of books on contemporary American Jewish life and on Israel...
Vol. 17 • December 1992 • No. 6
