In A Moment
IN A MOMENT On August 6, 1942, Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish teacher, doctor and author, gathered the 192 Jewish orphans in his care and marched them from the Warsaw ghetto to trains that would...
...The annual competition is sponsored by the International Center for Holocaust Studies and the Rome office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...
...The younger generation of would-be political leaders in Israel is often cut off from positions of leadership because of the way Israel's party system is structured...
...Lifton has also written more than a dozen children's books...
...See "The Last March of Janusz Korczak's Children" (p...
...In this month's Perspective column (p...
...it approves of his writings and supports the society...
...Kaufman has been the rabbi of Temple Beth Hillel in North Hollywood, California for 15 years...
...The competition is in its fifth year, and will award two prizes in the fall of 1988, one for fiction or non-fiction books suitable for young adults, the other for books directed to parents and educators on the welfare and nurturing of children...
...Lifton is the only American board member of the International Janusz Korczak Society, headquartered in Warsaw...
...In the March 1988 MOMENT, Goell wrote ' 'Is the Occupation Brutalizing Israel...
...In "Israel's Younger Political Leaders— Who and of What Quality...
...Korczak remained with the children of his orphanage despite having the opportunity to escape by himself...
...Maybe your article will show what's right with it," a friend told Joel Rebibo as he was researching "Growing Up with the State—Prominent Israelis Under 40" (p...
...Lifton's interest in Korczak stems from her own experience as an adopted child...
...Fifty years after his creation, Superman is as popular as ever...
...Lifton has also served as a member of the literary awards committee for the Janusz Korczak Literary Competition...
...An emigrant to Israel from Minneapolis, Minn., Elazar also teaches political science and is director of the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University...
...IN A MOMENT On August 6, 1942, Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish teacher, doctor and author, gathered the 192 Jewish orphans in his care and marched them from the Warsaw ghetto to trains that would take them to Treblinka...
...Founded to promote "humanitarian values in the education of the young generation" and to maintain an international archive of material related to Korczak, the society has chapters in West Germany, Poland and Israel...
...44), author Dennis Dooley explains that much of Superman's appeal lies in the remarkable success of this immigrant from the planet Krypton...
...Recently he edited the 1988-89 Bazak Guide to Israel...
...42) asks James Lee Kaufman...
...He holds a Ph.D...
...He is the editor of Publius, The Journal of Federalism and is a consultant to the United States Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, the National Governor's Association and the Council of State Governments...
...An immigrant who became the ultimate American, Superman was created by two Jewish boys from Cleveland who sold the character for only S130...
...in political science from Columbia University and has taught Israeli politics at Hebrew University...
...He is co-editor of Superman at Fifty—The Persistence of a Legend (Octavia Press, 1987) and author of the award-winning Dashiell Hammett (Frederick Ungar, 1985), a biography of one of America's most famous authors of detective fictions...
...The problem Yosef Goell identifies should be solved by reforming Israel's parliamentary system, asserts Daniel J. Elazar, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs...
...Rebibo interviewed 15 Israelis— Jews and Arabs— under the age of 40, who grew up in Israel and who personify what's "right" with the state...
...Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Rebibo made aliyah in 1983...
...In "Superman—An Immigrant Who Made It" (p...
...He previously served as principal of the Phoenix Hebrew Academy, a Jewish day school...
...58) that American Jewish philanthropic activities 4 remain apolitical...
...In the 40th year of Israel's existence, despite the wars and amidst continuing political turmoil, the participants expressed a commitment to the country of their childhood and an excitement over the process of nation-building that they have lived through...
...The Polish government considers Korczak a martyr...
...Elazar is the Senator N. M. Paterson Professor of Intergovernmental Relations and head of the Institute of Local Government at Bar-Ilan University...
...MOMENT founding editor Leonard Fein recommends in this month's "On My Mind" (p...
...The American-born Goell has lived in Israel since 1948...
...Though there is no such prayer in the siddur, Kaufman finds precedents in Jewish tradition for his idea...
...Betty Jean Lifton recreates a world of horror and sacrifice and fleshes out a figure little known in the West, but as famous in Europe as Anne Frank...
...24), Yosef Goell analyzes the system of political mobility in Israel and describes the patron-protege alliances between current leaders and the aspiring young politicos who cluster around them...
...He has edited and compiled a high holiday prayer book for his congregation...
...Goell is a columnist for The Jerusalem Post...
...Rebibo is a member of the Jerusalem Post editorial staff and a frequent contributor to American Jewish newspapers...
...30) Elazar not only suggests a variety of options, including a system similar to that of the United States, but he also explains how political momentum for changing the system can be created...
...In "How to Achieve Electoral Reform for Israel" (p...
...Last month, the society celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of Korczak's Jewish orphanage...
...Dooley is the community relations officer and director of publications of the Cleveland Foundation, the nation's oldest community federation...
...6), MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks analyzes the issues involved in working toward an Israeli-Palestinian compromise...
...She is the author of Twice Born: Memories of an Adopted Daughter (McGraw-Hill, 1975) and Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience (Dial, 1979), and she has published three books on the Far East, including Children of Vietnam (Atheneum, 1972) which was nominated for a National Book Award and a Newbery Award...
...May We Pray for a Suffering Loved One to Die...
...Everyone talks about what's wrong with Israel...
Vol. 13 • June 1988 • No. 4
