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IN A MOMENT Jewish museums should present Judaism as a living, vibrant culture, rather than display Jewish artifacts in glass cases as if Judaism were a thing of the past, says museum aficionada...
...IN A MOMENT Jewish museums should present Judaism as a living, vibrant culture, rather than display Jewish artifacts in glass cases as if Judaism were a thing of the past, says museum aficionada Wendy Leibowitz in "Why Arc Jewish Museums So Boring...
...He was a war correspondent for The London Daily Telegraph during the 1967 and 1973 wars in the Middle East, and between the wars he wrote The Face ' of Defeat: Palestinian Refugees and Guerrillas (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), about the origins of the PLO...
...He has written a popular series of religious books: Once Upon a .Soul (New York City Publishing, 1984), Soul Surnvois (NYC Publishing, 1985) and Souled (NYC Publishing, 1986...
...Now a U.S...
...It was my favorite umbrella," she says...
...He was born in Palestine and educated in the United Slates...
...Leibowitz has a point, even though she may be unfairly lumping together all Jewish museums in her assessment, replies museum administrator Tom L. Freudenheim in "Thank You, Wendy Leibowitz...
...From 1984 to 1988 he was the Times bureau chief in Jerusalem, and from 1982 to 1984 he was bureau chief in Beirut...
...Pryce-Jones is a novelist and journalist living in London...
...See also "Valued Above Rubies: Women and Men of Valor Win moment's Community Service Awards, Part I" in the August 1989 issue of moment for the winners of the Volunteer Service, Social Service, Education and Scholarship awards...
...Until recently, the Soviet Jew who studied or taught Hebrew was often rewarded %vith a prison sentence...
...Such is the English temperament that we tended to admire those who resisted us...
...Fluent in Hebrew and Arabic, Leibowitz lived in Israel for four years and worked for the Ford Foundation on health projects in Arab villages...
...A political scientist, Hallaj has taught at Birzeit University, the University of Jordan and Jacksonville University...
...Freudenheim is assistant secretary for museums of the Smithsonian Institution...
...Fackenheim shares his observations in "Christmas in the Sukkah," an On My Mind on p. 66...
...He has been director of the Institute of Arab Studies in Belmont, Massachusetts...
...Those who think Judaism is a dying religion should visit Jerusalem during Sukkot, according to Emil L. Facken-heim...
...A rescue mission for priceless Yiddish books has accumulated 900,000 volumes...
...Friedman is chief diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times in Washington, D.C...
...Friedman won two Pulitzer Prizes during that period, one for his coverage of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the other for his work on Israel...
...Rabbi Teller teaches his own blend of Torah, midrash, philosophy and moral guidance at numerous women's colleges in Jerusalem...
...Winners of the 1989 moment Community Service Awards for Literature and the Arts, Religion, and Charitable Fundraising are announced in "Valued Above Rubies: Women and Men of Valor Win moment's Community Service Awards, Part II" (p...
...She also worked as a freelance writer for moment, Present Tense, and numerous Jewish newspapers...
...As a schoolboy he romanticized anti-colonial Arab leaders...
...The remarkable story of how an unlikely coalition—a savvy talmudic scholar, a high-placed Italian diplomat and a prestigious Soviet scientist— created the Soviet Union's first government-supported yeshiva is told by Hanoch Teller in' 'The Possible Dream" (p...
...10), a critique of several Jewish museums in the United States and abroad...
...Director of the Palestine Research and Education Center, Hallaj is also the editor of the magazine Palestine Perspectives...
...An Interpretation for the Present Age (Summit Books, 1987...
...He was consulting editor of American Museum Guides: Fine Arts (Mac-millan, 1983), and co-author of Spiritual Resistance (Jewish Publication Society, 1981...
...Prycc-Jones has taught writing at Iowa Slate University and the University of California, Berkeley, and has published eight novels, the latest of which is Afternoon Sun (VVeiden-feld and Nicolson, 1986...
...The charismatic teacher has also made his reputation as a storyteller and tours Israel and North America teaching with his stories...
...citizen, Hallaj lived and taught on the West Bank before emigrating...
...Pryce-Jones's attempt to prove that Arabs are more violent and less civilized than the West displays his biased vision of the Arab world, responds Palestinian political scientist Muhammed Hallaj in "Understanding Pryce-Jones: 'A Racist Manifesto...
...He is a retired professor at the University of Toronto...
...An art historian and museum administrator, Freudenheim has been director of the Worcester Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, curator ofThe Jewish Museum in New York and assistant director of the University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley...
...and childhood anxieties are conquered by producing an award-winning film...
...It is amazing that Israel has managed to hold together as a country despite Israelis' deep disagreements about what kind of Jewish life a Jewish state should embody, writes New York Times correspondent Thomas L. Friedman in "Whose Country Is, This, Anyway...
...He has contributed to several books, including Palestinian Agenda for the West Bank and Gaza (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, 1980), Blaming the Victims (Verso, 1988) and Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial (Madina, 1982...
...During the past decade, he has traveled to nearly every Arab country...
...But new Jewish museums are using innovative techniques to engage audiences, and established Jewish museums have shown spectacular exhibits that Leibowitz missed, he says in his analysis of the special challenges of Jewish museums...
...Every stone thrown during the intifada is a stone thrown against democracy, writes journalist David Pryce-Jones...
...Now he/she can attend a yeshiva in Moscow...
...It would be a mistake to create a Palestine out of a culture where dissenters are assassinated, he writes...
...He spent part of his childhood in Morocco where "the Arab world meant . . . safety, food, color...
...He returned to the Middle East in 1962 and wrote a book Next Generation (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965), sketching Israeli incidents and personalities and showing the hopeless position of the Arab minority...
...As director of the Museum Program for the National Endowment for the Arts, Freudenheim administered major grant funding to museums, which broadened his perspective of the museum field...
...Fackenheim, one of the world's leading Jewish philosophers, made aliyah in 1983...
...Since gaining 'their independence in 1945, the Arabs, instead of creating pluralistic democracies, have been reverting to tribal and kinship structures, he says, in "Understanding the Arabs: 'Self-Imposed Despotism...
...The Closed Circle, from which this article is adapted, is his ninth work of non-fiction...
...After earning a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, she won a grant from Columbia to visit Germany and write...
...Friedman takes us on a brilliant tour of the varieties of Jewish life in Israel, from rock'n'roll Zionist to fundamentalist West Bank settlers...
...and vice president for academic affairs at Birzeit University on the West Bank...
...She reminds the museum establishment that Jews are hungry for interesting exhibits, writes Freudenheim...
...director of the Council for Higher Education in the West Bank and Gaza...
...an Orthodox woman furthers the cause of feminism in Israel...
...His latest book is What Is Judaism...
...Leibowitz, a law student at Stanford University, grew up in Washington, D.C., and visited the Smithsonian museums "every time it rained...
...Both authors make strong statements, and we leave our readers to judge whether or not Pryce-Jones's descriptions and characterization of Arab society are justified or whether, as Hallaj says, Pryce-Jones over-generalizes, lacks understanding of the grass roots nature of the contemporary Palestinian nationalist movement and applies a Eurocentric standard to Arab society...
...He drew on his years of observing the Middle East scene to write From Beirut to Jitusalem (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989), from which his article is adapted...
Vol. 14 • October 1989 • No. 6
