Notes & News
NOTES & NEWS Dull, Dull, Dull The AJS (Association of Jewish Studies) blew it. The Association held its 20th anniversary meeting in Boston December 18-20. Never again will it have a 20th...
...Me'or David has four 350-megawatt units, and Ashkelon will have two 550-megawatt units...
...None of these people gave a scholarly paper...
...Coal is cheaper than oil...
...For more information, call the museum at (617) 495-2123...
...Never again will it have a 20th anniversary and the opportunity for scholarly celebration such an occasion affords...
...Also, prices for coal are generally more stable than for oil, making it easier to plan long-term budgets...
...But they came mostly to shmooze with old friends and perhaps listen to one of their students read a chapter from a projected dissertation...
...And the more introverted and coercive it becomes, the greater the alienation...
...Israel plans to import nearly twice as much coal by 1991...
...that they chair sessions for the honor, rather than read substantive papers...
...The Israelis have found uses for the by-product—half the ash so far produced has been sold for cement manufacture...
...The national definition of Jewishness in a Jewish state has concealed the catastrophic failure of Orthodoxy to expose some 80 percent of Israeli society to even a modicum of religious vocabulary, study and observance...
...Would Israelis Be Religious...
...How many Jews would be left in the open society of Canada or the United States if Orthodoxy were the only religious option...
...A third coal-burning power plant is being planned for Haifa...
...The Me'or David power station near Hadera is already fueled by coal, and when a second coal-fueled power station in Ashkelon begins operation this year, Israel will be producing 90 percent of its electricity from coal, according to Simon Griver of the World Zionist Press Service...
...Coal is not controlled by Arab interests but may be bought from nations friendly to Israel...
...They came but they remained silent...
...During 1986, Israel imported 3.1 million tons of coal...
...For the most part it was dull, dull, dull...
...The fault lay with the senior scholars...
...Ruth Wisse, Nahum Sarna, Daniel Elazar, Herbert Paper, Egon Mayer, Marshall Sklare, Nathan Glazer, Edward Greenstein, Reuven Kimelman, Ernest Frerichs, James Young, Martin Cohen—they were all there...
...The introduction of genuine religious pluralism is vital not only to improve Israel-Diaspora relations, but also to reconnect Israelis to Judaism...
...The following is an excerpt from a talk by Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary: The vast majority of Israelis have been religiously disenfranchised, severed from their spiritual roots...
...Of course graduate students and young scholars need an opportunity to show off their wares...
...To be sure, they are secular by choice, but also in part by lack of choice...
...Researchers are devising ways to utilize the rest in construction and other industries...
...Of course there were some remarkable papers and occasional flashes of brilliance...
...Where were the plenary sessions in which senior scholars present major syntheses...
...it burns 50 percent more efficiently than oil, saving S25 per ton...
...But overall, there is a problem— perhaps symbolized by the fact that Robert Chazan's "presidential address" was not a scholarly presentation, but a call to train future scholars and an insider's plaint about unnecessary sniping within the association...
...AlPAC's Head-ln-The-Sand Department An editorial in the December 5, 1988 Near East Report, a newsletter associated with AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), states: Just as the uprising by Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip began without the PLO, so will any eventual settlement between them and Israel...
...Between 10 and 15 percent of coal is left as ash, another environmental challenge...
...South Africa provided more than 60 percent of that amount, with 20 percent coming from Australia, and the remainder from the United States, Colombia, Britain and elsewhere...
...Correction The opening date of the exhibit of Hebrew manuscripts from the Vatican at the Harvard Semitic Museum (see "Theirs or Ours...
...A Defense of the Vatican Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts," November 1988), will be April 24, 1989...
...Where were the broadly based discussions of Jewish sociology, political science, historical periods, biblical studies...
...AIPAC must have its head in the sand if it thinks a settlement can be reached in the near term without the participation of the PLO...
...that they are assumed to be wise, rather than sharing their wisdom.—H.S...
...There is a danger that the hallmark of senior scholars will be that they hover over the meetings, rather than participate...
...Of course important scholarship is in the details...
...Coal Power Lights Israel The Israeli government is determined to reduce the country's dependence on oil, so Israel has turned to coal for electricity...
Vol. 14 • March 1989 • No. 2
