In A Moment
IN A MOMENT So many complex and seemingly intractable problems face Jews today and require our attention that the difficulties threaten to crowd out the bright spots. We are so concerned with the...
...Can Israeli Culture Survive the American Challenge...
...at Brown University...
...Reporter Carl Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal, probes the story of his own family's persecution during the McCarthy era in "My Parents Belonged to the Communist Party" (p...
...She found that "Arafat and the other PLO leaders had a lot more self-confidence and sense of purpose" than when she covered them as a reporter in the early 1980s...
...But the Palestinians want assurances from Israel at the outset that they will ultimately have some form of sovereignty...
...In a recent speech to the national convention of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Steven M. Cohen revealed the results of his latest opinion polls surveying American Jews' opinions on the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...Two days later he called back...
...One of the judges called us early in the process to say that he was terribly sorry, but that he was going to have to withdraw...
...Understanding the rabbis' assumptions about language helps us comprehend the apparent word-play in Torah and commentary and enriches our understanding of the rabbinic tradition...
...Shaked is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the foremost scholars in the field of literary criticism...
...American born, Alpher emigrated to Israel in 1964...
...The rabbis believed that Hebrew pre-existed the world, and they felt one could learn more about God by studying the meanings of the words, the shapes of the letters and the sound one makes when pronouncing them...
...Could he, he wanted to know, be reinstated as a judge...
...We hope in reading the award announcements you will feel some of the excitement the judges felt, and get some sense of the uplifting, giving, caring projects that permeate our communities, often without our being aware of them...
...He also served in the prime minister's office for 12 years, including three years working as the senior department head specializing in Third World affairs...
...42), based on interviews with the Ethiopian high priest and his son—an Orthodox rabbi—and talks with the community's new leaders...
...He has edited the 1988-89 Bazak Guide to Israel (Harper and Row, 1988) and the 1989-90 Bazak Guide to Israel (Harper and Row, 1989...
...A group of strategists from the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies—an Israeli think tank—recently evaluated Israel's options for resolving the problems in the West Bank and Gaza...
...American-born Rebibo now resides in Israel and is a member of the Jerusalem Post editorial staff...
...Despite the religious turmoil, Ethiopians are assimilating quickly and making it economically in Israel...
...Alpher edited the Encyclopedia of Jewish History (Facts on File, 1986) and jValionalism and Modernity: A Mediterranean Perspective (Praeger, 1986...
...Two hours later he was still reading...
...Bernstein remembers his anguish when his parents were blacklisted...
...The ancient rabbis analyzed the structure of the Hebrew language to gain insights into the divine structure of creation, explains Howard Eilberg-Schwartz in "What Happens When God Invents Language...
...This Israeli position must be accommodated by any feasible peace proposal, Alpher argues in "Why Israel Won't Promise Palestinian Sovereignty: A Reply" (p...
...Clashes between their traditional religious leaders, who want to be at peace with Israel's religious establishment, and new, younger leaders of the Ethiopian-Israeli community, who are defying the religious establishment, have resulted in a rift in the community, says Joel Rebibo in "A Long Way From Gondar" (p...
...and ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Eilberg-Schwartz completed a Ph.D...
...The Palestinians would be willing to trade off aspects of sovereignty — economic and military, for example—in order to have a state, suggests political strategist Helena Cobban in "If Arafat Utters the 1-Word, Should Israel Say the S-Word...
...That's why it's a special pleasure to announce in this issue the first segment of MOMENT's Community Service Awards, "Valued Above Rubies: Women and Men of Valor Win MOMENT's Community Service Awards" (p...
...After receiving both his M.A...
...We expressed our regret and asked him to return the box of nominations and supporting materials that had apparently frightened him away...
...Bernstein's coverage of the Watergate scandal with co-author Bob Woodward for The Washington Post exposed high level corruption in the Nixon Administration and ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon...
...He had just too much else on his plate...
...Cobban has built on the many interviews she has conducted with Palestinians to write The Palestinian Liberation Organization: People, Power and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1984...
...He had gone to repack the box, he said, and then started to read the nominations...
...the question we should ask is what kind of sovereignty, Cobban says...
...The answer was yes...
...Eilberg-Schwartz is assistant professor of religion at Temple University...
...While_many American Jews are demonstrating that they can have strong Jewish identities in the Diaspora, Israelis seem increasingly attracted to American culture, says Israeli scholar and literary critic Gershon Shaked...
...Amoral Zionists, Moralizing Univer-salists and Conditional Doves" (p...
...56), adapted from his speech, reports on his findings in this month's On" My Mind...
...The Israelis will not consider Palestinian sovereignty without proof that the Israelis and Palestinians can coexist in peace for an extended transition period, responds Joseph Alpher, who coordinated the Jaffee Center's project...
...For 35 years the FBI kept a file on his parents—some 2,500 pages long— reporting on activities such as the Bernsteins' weekly card game and Carl Bernstein's bar mitzvah...
...Bernstein and Woodward won a Pulitzer Prize for their work in 1973...
...Alpher has been deputy head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University since 1986...
...asks Shaked (p...
...They concluded that it was not feasible to expect Israel to commit itself to Palestinian sovereignty in any peace settlement at this time...
...He is co-author of All the President's Men (Simon and Schuster, 1974), which chronicles the Watergate investigation, and The Final Days (Simon and Schuster, 1976), which follows the last days of the Nixon Administration...
...He was awarded a research fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities for a study on logic and revelation in Judaism...
...Last February Cobban was part of a six-person group of American researchers who went to Tunis to explore the thinking of PLO chairman Yasir Arafat and his colleagues on current peace moves in the Middle East...
...After leaving the Post in 1977, Bernstein served as Washington bureau chief and senior correspondent for ABC news from 1980 to 1984...
...The second segment will follow in the next issue...
...Winner of the 1986 Bialik Literary Prize in Israel, Shaked has lectured at numerous universities around the world and written more than 20 books of criticism in several languages...
...He is the author of The Human^ Will in Judaism: The Mishnah's Phitosophy of Intention (Scholars Press, 1986...
...Cohen is professor of sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, and a leading expert on American Jewish identity, family and politics...
...A member of the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies, Cobban is currently a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where she is analyzing the Palestinian and Israeli debates on the utility of violence...
...Loyalties: A Son's Memoirs (Simon and Schuster, 1989), from which this article is adapted, is his most recent work...
...We are so concerned with the problems, we forget about the wonderful things that are also happening...
...Operation Moses brought 7,000 Ethiopians Jews to Israel, but when the Ethiopians arrived they faced a new set of challenges...
Vol. 14 • August 1989 • No. 5
