In A Moment
IN A MOMENT While Sigmund Freud denied assertions that psychoanalysis was particularly Jewish and disavowed any belief in the Jewish faith, he recognized that his Jewish-ness was a vital part of...
...A Holocaust survivor, Fackenheim was a professor1 at the University of Toronto until he retired and made aliyah in 1983...
...Salkowitz is the executive director of the National Capital Region of the American Jewish Congress...
...The intriguing history of this elusive artifact, now on display in the Israel Museum, is unraveled by MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks in "Pomegranate: Sole Relic from Solomon's Temple, Smuggled Out of Israel, Now Recovered" (p...
...Today's young people are taught that they can have it all: marriage, children and career...
...Still, most soldiers are rising to the challenge and feel frustrated that world opinion does not recognize their efforts, writes Abraham Rabinovich in "Tohar haNeshek—The Intifada Challenges the Israeli Army's Moral Code" (p...
...Roth is adjunct professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and editor of the Penguin Books series, "Writers from the Other Europe...
...Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and a trained psychoanalyst, was born in Berlin in 1923 and came to the United States in 1941...
...These standards are proving more difficult than ever to uphold as the army struggles to keep order among an angry civilian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...44), Peter Gay examines the relationship between Freud's Jewish identity and his work...
...Subsequent novels veered away from Jewish life...
...This book earned Roth the National Book Award, and, in spite of angry responses from the Jewish public, the Daroff Award from the Jewish Book Council...
...She also serves as national vice president for the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights and is on the board of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns...
...In "A Religious Renaissance—Can It Happen in Israel...
...IN A MOMENT While Sigmund Freud denied assertions that psychoanalysis was particularly Jewish and disavowed any belief in the Jewish faith, he recognized that his Jewish-ness was a vital part of him and believed that being a Jew uniquely prepared him to be a trailblazer...
...In 1959, Roth gained national attention with the publication of Goodbye, Columbus (Houghton Mifflin, 1959), a novella that many took to be anti-Semitic, about a summer romance between a young Jewish librarian from Newark, N.J., and a rich Jewish Radcliffe undergraduate from the suburbs...
...In Portnoy's Complaint (Cape, 1969) 10 years later, Roth probed the fantasies of Alexander Portnoy, a successful youngjewish lawyer...
...20), Philip Roth vividly captures his dreams and his family's dynamics at this pivotal point in his life— leaving his New Jersey Jewish home for the "gentile" atmosphere of Bucknell University...
...see his MOMENT article, "The Boats of October—How a Missile Battle with Syria Changed Naval Warfare," September 1988...
...He recently wrote What Is Judaism...
...Salkowitz is a field instructor for the University of Maryland graduate school of social work and the Hebrew Union College/University of Southern California Public Administration Program...
...Norton, 1988) and .4 Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism and the Making of Psychoanalysis (Yale University Press with Hebrew Union College, 1988...
...Today, however, there is a growing eagerness among non-observant Israelis to learn more about Jewish religious tradition...
...In "Did Freud Invent a Jewish Science...
...The world's most vibrant center of Torah learning is fertile ground for a positive religious outburst, he asserts, but without the help of grassroots movements and Diaspora Jewry, the opportunity will be lost...
...In "Philip Roth Enters the Gentile World—An Autobiographical Vignette" (p...
...The article printed here is an excerpt from his most recent book, The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988...
...The author of Goodbye, Columbus and Port-noy's Complaint dreamed of going away to college, where he hoped to develop the "poise and savoir faire" of adulthood, and to avoid the family confrontation he saw as inevitable if he stayed at home...
...An Interpretation for the Present Age (Summit Books, 1987...
...Tohar haneshek, "purity of arms," is a code of moral standards that has always guided the Israeli army...
...Peli was friend and disciple to both Heschel and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik...
...But his recent works chronicling the life of Nathan Zuckerman, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ghost Writer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979), have returned to Jewish characters and themes...
...He is the author of numerous books, including The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (Knopf, 1966) which won the 1967 National Book Award, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volumes I and II (Oxford University Press, 1984 and 1986), Freud: A Life for Our Time (W.W...
...Rabinovich is a foreign correspondent and a senior feature writer for the Jerusalem Post...
...Tracy Salkowitz turns the tragedy of infertility into a personal success...
...A Jerusalem-born rabbi, essayist, poet and scholar, Peli is known for his pluralistic approach to divisions in Judaism...
...She earned her master's degree in social work from Yeshiva University and a bachelor's from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles in human growth and development...
...He holds the Blechner Chair in Jewish Values at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and is co-founder of the Foundation for Jewish Values in California...
...Distinguished philosopher of Judaism Emil L. Fackenheim tries to integrate the blessings and tensions of life in Israel into his religous consciousness in On My Mind (p...
...He is the author of The Boats of Cherbourg (Henry Holt, 1988...
...He stayed in Jerusalem to write The Battle for Jerusalem (Jewish Publication Society, 1972) and eventually made aliyah...
...Born in New York City, Rabinovich first went to Israel to cover the 1967 Six-Day War for a New York newspaper...
...But some couples, no matter how hard-working, intelligent and caring they are, find they are not able to have children...
...Mystery surrounds the discovery, disappearance and re-appearance of the only known relic that may have come from Solomon's Temple, a thumb-sized, inscribed ivory pomegranate...
...Hannah Cried . . . But I Got Hormone Shots" (p...
...Israelis today may speak in the holy tongue and live in the Holy Land, but many remain unfamiliar with Judaism's holiest ideas...
...Two of our articles relate to Israel's unique role as a Jewish state...
...26), Pinchas H. Peli reports that official Israeli religious organizations are not prepared to reach the average secular citizen...
...32) is a frank and sometimes flip account of one woman's struggle to conceive...
...The author of a Jerusalem Post column on the weekly Torah portion, Peli has written 12 books, including Torah Today (B'nai B'rith Books, 1987), and Abraham Joshua Heschel: An Intellectual Biography (New York University Press, forthcoming...
Vol. 13 • December 1988 • No. 9
