In A Moment
IN A MOMENT What do green bagels strung from the ceiling and generous squirts of shmaltz on garlic-smothered chops have in common' At Famous Sammy's Roumanian Steak House on Manhattan's Lower East...
...She lectures on bereavement counseling and Jewish pastoral care and has written widely on Jewish feminist issues, Jewish biomedical ethics and Jewish and psychological approaches to the life cycle...
...How do Christians respond to Boro-witz's challenge...
...Klein discovered several versions of this 1,600-year-old poem on fragments preserved in the Cairo Genizah, the world's largest source of ancient and medieval Jewish writings...
...Eilberg, assistant rabbi at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, was the first woman ordained as...
...The Church, however, has seen this intimacy as distinguishing Jesus' religion from Judaism...
...His book, The Mask Jews Wear-Self-Deceplions of American Jewry (Simon and Schuster, 1973), received the National Jewish Book Award in the field of Jewish thought in 1974...
...His most recent article for MOMENT, "Why Jews Vote Their Values, Not Their Economic Interests: A Defense of Liberalism," appeared in October 1988 Fein is back in Boston this year, where he is working on a new book Photographer Neil Folberg captures the majesty of the Sinai Desert in "Desert Geometry...
...reviewed in MOMENT in December 1988) The founder of Mazon, an organization committed to a worldwide effort to combat hunger, Fein is a consultant to the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism...
...Jesus felt an intimacy with God that is thoroughly Jewish and was typical of the Jews of his day, says Borowitz...
...Kugelmass tells us what makes Sammy's a success in "Green Bagels: How Sammy's Roumanian Steak House Blends Jewish Food and Nostalgia Into a Generic Ethnic Stew" (p...
...Fein challenges us to abandon the old Zionist ideals that encourage unquestioning support of Israel in "A New Zionism" (p 48...
...An accomplished amateur cantor, Eilberg also served as Jewish chaplain at Methodist Hospital of Indiana...
...The Inner Life of America's Jews (Harper and Row, 1988...
...a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS...
...34), Eilberg tells of her inner awakening to spiritual dimensions she had been taught to repress...
...All the months vied to include Passover, according to a recently discovered Aramaic poem that was chanted in ancient synagogues on the sabbath before the first of Nisan Michael L. Klein treats us to excerpts from the poem in "Months Compete for Passover Honor Targumic Fragments Reveal How Hebrew Months Vied for Pesach" (p...
...He wondered why the Aramaic version sometimes differed slightly from the Hebrew...
...In "Encountering a Feminine God" (p...
...Kugelmass is the author of The Miracle of Intervale Avenue (Schocken Books, 1986), a book that grew out of a 1983 MOMENT article, "Maybe It's Brodsky" (May 1983), about a struggling mmyan of elderly Jews in the South Bronx...
...Klein is dean of the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is a professor of Bible and targumic literature there Klein's interest in targumic writings—Aramaic translations or paraphrases of Hebrew texts—began in childhood, when he observed a talmudic dictum that one should study the weekly Torah portion twice in Hebrew and once in targum...
...Photographing Sinai" (p 28) Following a route from the Egyptian pyramids to the walls of Jerusalem, Folberg reveals the peacefulness of the vast desert landscape...
...A past associate dean, faculty member and student at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, Kugelmass is working on a photo exhibition, to open at YIVO in June 1989, called "Going Home," which features photos taken by American Jewish immigrants when they visited their native countries...
...How Is the Church to Confront Jesus' Jewishness...
...In response, MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks says Fein paints a picture filled with half-truths, in "Leonard Fein's New Zionism: An Inspiring Vision or a Flawed Argument'" (p...
...Despite the carnival atmosphere at Sammy's, some customers go there to celebrate Jewish holidays...
...Eugene J. Fisher, executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, accepts Borowitz's premise but differs with some of Borowitz's interpretations of Christian doctrine...
...Borowitz challenges the Church to recognize more fully Jesus' Jewish origins...
...Rabbi Amy Eilberg worshipped a God of judgment and law, then discovered a God of nurturing and creativity through the experience of giving birth...
...The George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, Charlesworth is the editor of the two-volume Old Testament Pseudepi-grapha (Doubleday, 1983, 1985...
...Klein has published four books and numerous articles on targumic writings...
...American Jews are distancing themselves from Israel today in a "revolution of collapsing expectations," says MOMENT founder Leonard Fein...
...40), asks Eugene B. Borowitz, a leading theologian of liberal Judaism...
...Protestant James H. Charlesworth feels that Borowitz unfairly characterizes the Church...
...A Reform rabbi, Borowitz is the editor ofSh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, a periodical devoted to social ethics, and is a professor of education and Jewish religious thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...
...He is editor of Between Two Worlds: Ethnographic Essays on American Jewry (Cornell University Press, 1988) and author of From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (Schocken Books, 1983...
...He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Hebrew University on the notion that the targum shies away from the anthropomorphic language applied to God in the Torah...
...Eilberg has taught at JTS's College of Jewish Studies in New York and earned a master's degree in Talmud from JTS as well as a master's degree in social work from Smith College...
...MOMENT publishes responses from two Christian thinkers...
...A student and colleague of the late photographer Ansel Adams, Folberg has hiked and photographed extensively in the High Sierra mountains, in Norway's Rondane Mountains and in Yugoslav Macedonia, in addition to the Middle East Raised in the U S Midwest, Folberg now makes his home in Israel In spring, a Jew's thoughts turn to matzah, but why in spring, in the Hebrew month of Nisan...
...4) Fein is the author of Where Are We...
...Kugelmass is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Jewish anthropology and folklore...
...IN A MOMENT What do green bagels strung from the ceiling and generous squirts of shmaltz on garlic-smothered chops have in common' At Famous Sammy's Roumanian Steak House on Manhattan's Lower East Side, they are part of an experience that turns ethnic Jewishness into a parody of itself, according to sociologist Jack Kugelmass...
Vol. 14 • April 1989 • No. 3
