In A Moment
IN A MOMENT MOMENT looks at the continuing violence on the West Bank and Gaza Strip from three perspectives: those of Israeli Defense Minister Yitzchak Rabin, of Arab merchant Eid Kwasmi, who runs...
...34), Honey Rackman explains how withholding a get (Jewish bill of divorce, plural gittin) can destroy a woman's hopes of remarriage under Jewish law...
...In his interview (p...
...She is a caseworker for G.E.T...
...Epstein is writer-in-residence at Tow-son State University in Baltimore, Maryland...
...He has published articles on modern Jewish philosophy...
...Kwasmi worked as a teacher in an Israeli school, then opened his own store in 1974 where he sells pottery and Hebron glass...
...46), Daniel Mark Epstein shows us that the world's greatest escape artist was a man of mystery and discipline who refused to allow his fabulous escapes to be attributed to the supernatural...
...24), Oz makes an eloquent plea for compromise on both sides...
...In " 'He Raises the Weak from the Dust and Lifts the Poor Out of the Dirt' " (p...
...In remarks made on receiving an honorary doctorate in Jerusalem from the Hebrew Union College on March 10, 1988, Oz addressed the charge that writers give aid to the enemy when they speak out on the current crisis...
...In his interview (p...
...MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks interviewed Rabin and Kwasmi on a recent visit to Israel...
...Epstein has long been captivated by magic, and in particular by Houdini...
...Rabin was Israel's ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973 and Labor party prime minister of Israel from 1974 to 1977...
...A native of Quebec City, Canada, Gillman served as dean of the seminary's rabbinical school until 1981...
...Getting Equitable Treatment), a grassroots support group for women unable to obtain gittin...
...To understand the fundamental divisions that exist between liberal and traditional Jews, we must assess the "Four Basic Religious Issues That Divide Us" (p...
...At the age of 14, Oz moved to Kibbutz Hulda where he lived until 1975...
...Harry Houdini, the Hungarian-born son of a rabbi, succeeded in extraordinary feats of bravado never reproduced.In "Harry Houdini's Escape from Ehrich Weiss" (p...
...Rackman is vice president of G.E.T...
...Rabin is the author of several books and articles, most recently, Israel's Lebanon Policy (Westview, 1984), co-authored with Yuri Lubrani...
...Rackman charges that h'us-bands are exploiting I this for economic gain...
...Nitza Rosovsky, curator for exhibits at the Harvard Semitic Museum and a native of Jerusalem, reviews two recent books of aerial photographs of Israel, in "Israel from the Air" (p...
...He is the author of 11 highly acclaimed works, including In the Land of Israel (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), A Perfect Peace (HBJ, 1985) and his most recent, Black Box (HBJ, 1988), soon to be excerpted in MOMENT...
...MOMENT'S effort to explore the sources of religious controversy among Jews continues this month with an article by Neil Gillman, the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rif-C"-LM*" kind Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary...
...Rabin also served as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War...
...14), Rabin tells of the rationale behind his policy of "force, might and beatings" against Palestinian protestors and explains why Israel was unprepared for the uprisings...
...A retired teacher who has taught in yeshivol and public schools, Rackman is an active participant in social reform organizations, including the League of Women Voters and the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights...
...he escaped from as many locks as could be tangled around his lithe body...
...20), Kwasmi, who considers himself a man of peace, justifies his support for the Palestinian uprising...
...He has also served as labor minister and as a member of the foreign affairs and defense committees in the Knesset...
...Often, the only recourse against a blackmailing husband is for the woman to publicize her plight, despite embarrassment to herself and her religious community...
...Because of his interest in teaching, Gillman is now completing a book on Jewish philosophy for use in undergraduate and adult education courses...
...He is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Spirits (Overlook/The Viking Press, 1987...
...His works have been translated into 18 languages...
...and a member of its speakers bureau...
...IN A MOMENT MOMENT looks at the continuing violence on the West Bank and Gaza Strip from three perspectives: those of Israeli Defense Minister Yitzchak Rabin, of Arab merchant Eid Kwasmi, who runs a shop in the Old City of Jerusalem, and of Israeli novelist Amos Oz...
...He is the head of the Kwasmi family in Jerusalem...
...She is the president of a Brooklyn chapter of Amit Women, and is on the executive board of Techiya USA...
...the family also has branches in Hebron and Amman, Jordan...
...Oz was born in Jerusalem in 1939...
...He took special pleasure in escaping from an effort by the German Imperial Police to lock him up...
...In 1977, he received the Prix de Rome in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1983, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship...
...42), writes Rabbi Gillman...
...The article is accompanied by stunning aerial photographs from the books...
...He made elephants disappear into thin air...
...He is currently researching the ideology of Conservative Judaism and modern approaches to Jewish ritual...
...Rosovsky compares these two handsome, artistic books: The Holy Land from the Air, with text by Amos Elon and photographs by Richard Nowitz, and The Holy Land: Israel from the Air by Baron Wolman...
...two plays and a collection of memoirs and essays, Star of Wonder (Overlook/The Viking Press, 1986...
...In "Getting a Get: How Some Husbands Are Blackmailing Their Wives—And Getting Away with It" (p...
Vol. 13 • May 1988 • No. 3
