In A Moment

IN A MOMENT Rabbis and intermarriage In this issue, MOMENT looks at some of the conflicts in three articles. "Rabbis Who Perform Intermarriages—Who They Are and Why They Do It," p 14, by MOMENT...

...Since 1972, he has been an active combatant in the war against religious cults, especially the Unification Church...
...She plays piano with a chamber group, strictly for pleasure...
...The unusual pictures taken inside the memorial are by Richard Nowitz, one of Israel's most famous photographers...
...Her personal aesthetic interest, however, is in music...
...She is currently working on a novel that follows three generations of a Jewish family from shtetl life in the 1890s to the United States today...
...Marjorie Schonhaut Hirshan approaches intermarriage from a personal perspective, as the mother of a young woman married to a non-Jew, in "Night of Awe—A Mother at Kol Nidre," p 22...
...Hirshan's shtetl roots and knowledge of Yiddish lore provide the background as she relates what she felt sitting beside her daughter and son-in-law during a Kol Nidre service of mostly intermarried couples...
...Furstenberg, who has lived in Jerusalem for more than twenty years, is an editor of Kol Emunah, a publication of the Israeli branch of Emunah Women, an Orthodox women's organization...
...A retired teacher, Hirshan is both a writer and craftsperson...
...His most recent book is The Holy Land From The Air (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), available through the MOMENT Bookstore, p 39...
...During his tenure as senior rabbi, Davis also served as a professor of Jewish studies at Manhattan College...
...Eizenstat is a partner in the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, in Washington, D C , and an adjunct lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
...Davis is rabbi emeritus of the Jewish Community Center of White Plains, New York...
...Her studies of Israeli bureaucracy led to her book, Pulling Strings Biculturahsm in Isiaeli Bureaucracy (SUNY Press, in press...
...In a short story entitled "A Dancer," p. 40, David H, Lynn creates a sensitive portrait of a young Jewish boy growing up in a small U.S...
...Danet has also conducted research on collectors and collecting...
...Her articles have appeared in the Jerusalem Post and many magazines...
...Our cover story, ''We Are Still One," p. 32, by Stuart E. Eizenstat, is an open letter from Eizenstat to an Israeli friend, in which he explores the causes of misunderstandings between the Jewish communities in Israel and the United States...
...But they often place conditions on their willingness to do so, and their motivations vary The other half of Reform rabbis refuse to perform intermarriages...
...She has taught Yiddish and banking to adults, and translated the poetry of Bessie Thoma-show from Yiddish to English...
...town during the 1950s, who confronts the Holocaust in an unusual way...
...Rabbi Maurice Davis explains his painful decision in "Why I Won't Perform an Intermarriage: A Reform Rabbi Responds," p. 20...
...He served as the assistant to President Jimmy Carter for domestic affairs and policy and as the executive director of Carter's domestic policy staff An extraordinarily creative new memorial dedicated to the children killed in the Holocaust is both disturbing and comforting, as it should be, reports Rochelle Furstenberg in the photo-essay "Infinite Light: A Memorial to Children who Died in the Holocaust," p. 26...
...Martin Press...
...Rabbis Who Perform Intermarriages—Who They Are and Why They Do It," p 14, by MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks, reports that half of the Reform rabbis in the United States have officiated at interfaith marriages...
...Lynn is the editor of Basic Education, a national monthly journal of educational reform that advocates a liberal arts education for all children...
...Furstenberg, an American editor and writer n'ow living in Israel, describes her emotions on visiting the unique children's memorial that recently opened at Yad Vashem, Israel's national center for the study and commemoration of the Holocaust...
...Davis founded the first national protest group against cults, Citizens Engaged in Reuniting Families, and has personally helped 187 young people return from cults to their families...
...Sun Myung Moon has said: "Rabbi Davis is the number one Satan in America...
...Correction In a Notes and News item on p. 12 of our December 1987 issue, MOMENT misspelled the name of the U S. ambassador to Austria, Ronald S Lauder We regret the error...
...You have to know someone who knows someone if you want to get anything done by the Israeli bureaucracy, it is often said, and sociologist Brenda Danet explores the reasons why protektzia has come to be used routinely in Israeli society, in her article "The Two Faces of Protektzia" p. 10...
...Optimistic and practical, Eizenstat outlines an agenda for narrowing our differences...
...He also writes a weekly column for the National Jewish Post and Opinion and is a visiting lecturer at the Academy of Jewish Religion in New York City...
...Danet, an associate professor of sociology and communications at Hebrew University, contends that humanizing bureaucracy in an immigrant society helps newcomers feel personal ties to their new government A resident of Baka, Jerusalem, Danet grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts but moved to Israel in 1960...
...He is currently writing his first novel, In My Brother's House, and will soon publish a book of literary criticism, The Hero's Tale: Narrators in the Early Modem Novel (St...

Vol. 12 • January 1988 • No. 10


 
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