In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Archaeological arguments that women were relegated to balconies in ancient synagogues are not supported by the evidence, says biblical scholar Bernadette J. Brooten in "Were Women and...
...He is the author of Who Was a Jew...
...We may be misinterpreting them when we call their commitment "passive," Feingold explains...
...Tevye, the Bible-quoting dairyman who was one of Sho-lem Aleichem's most endearing characters, is not the bumbler we've been told he was...
...She studied theology at the University of Tubingen, Germany, and Talmud and Jewish history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...He not only knew the Bible and popular commentaries, but deliberately twisted them into clever misquotes through which he commented on the ironies of life, says J. Michael Stern in "Restoring Tevye's Reputation" (p...
...Rabbinic Perspectives on the Jewish-Christian Schism (Ktav, 1985...
...to Iraq...
...Stern, a linguist proficient in Yiddish, Hebrew and several other languages, is a government relations consultant with a Washington, D.C., firm...
...It already designs and fabricates ballistic missiles and manufactures chemicals used for chemical warfare...
...He served as Defense Department negotiator in Moscow for the U.S.-USSR Space Agreement, and as Defense Department senior representative to the International Coordinating Committee (COCOM) in Paris...
...Lawrence H. SchiHrnan tells the story and explains the Orthodox arguments for separate seating in "When Women and Men Sat Together in American Orthodox Synagogues" (p...
...She suggests that their presupposition influenced the interpretation of their findings at the sites of ancient synagogues...
...Bryen was deputy undersecretary of defense for trade and security policy and, before that, director of the Defense Technology Security Administration...
...in a few years it will probably have the bomb, says military analyst W. Seth Carus...
...IN A MOMENT Archaeological arguments that women were relegated to balconies in ancient synagogues are not supported by the evidence, says biblical scholar Bernadette J. Brooten in "Were Women and Men Segregated in Ancient Synagogues...
...The author of articles on the military in Israel and the United States, Carus co-authored The Future Battlefield and the Arab-Israel Conflict (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, forthcoming...
...Archaeologists assumed the existence of women's galleries because of modern-day Orthodox practice, says Brooten...
...He is a former senior military analyst at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
...Fein, a political scientist, was the 1987-1988 Visiting Scholar at the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism...
...Many American Orthodox adopted mixed seating in an effort to attract congregants in the New World...
...The Inner Life of America's Jews (Harper and Row, 1988...
...He is the author of several books including Where Are We...
...Carus is on a leave of absence from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy to analyze proliferation of cruise missiles in the Third World as an Olin Fellow at the Naval War College Foundation in Rhode Island...
...Although in the end the congregation involved built a new synagogue with mixed seating, the momentum the court case provided ultimately led to a reversal of the trend toward mixed seating in Orthodox synagogues...
...In her book Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscrip-lional Evidence and Background Issues (Scholars Press, 1982), Brooten examined ancient inscriptions to discover whether the titles of power inxribed before the names of women were merely honorific, as some scholars suggest, or whether they referred to their actual roles in the community...
...He was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service twice, in 1984 and 1988...
...He is editing a volume of Sholem Aleichem's short stories...
...He is now president of Delta Tech Corporation and a senior consultant tb the office of the secretary of defense...
...The founder and former editor of MOMENT, Fein lectures around the country on current Jewish events...
...A court case led to a definitive Orthodox responsa stating that separate seating was halachically required...
...A former staff director on the U.S...
...From 1980 to 1982, Schiffman directed NYU's program at the archaeological excavations at Dor, Israel...
...bureaucrats allowed Iraq to obtain export licenses for vital supplies and technology to feed its growing military-industrial complex, Stephen D. Bryen charges in "We Are the People Who Let It Happen" (p...
...Senate Finance Committee, he served in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government until 1986, including serving as a program analyst in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...She concluded that women actually held important positions in ancient synagogues...
...When kibbutz blacksmith Myrim Baram lost his 18-year-old son Gavri in the Yom Kippur War, Myrim wanted to do something to keep Gavri's memory alive...
...Brooten has published numerous articles and has lectured around the world...
...While its use of chemical warfare on its own Kurdish population sent warning signals to the world about Iraq's ruthlessness, little has been done to stop the flow of technology and assistance to Iraq from the West, Carus says in "Iraq—A Threatening New Superpower" (p...
...Israelis talk of possible "transfer of population" to avoid facing hard choices, says Fein in "Fantasies of Israeli 'Realists' " (p...
...The organized Jewish community could gain in strength if it learned to mobilize the secular Jews in positions of influence in American society, says historian Henry L. Feingold in "The Importance of Secular Jews," an On My Mind on p. 66...
...The indifference of U.S...
...A professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Feingold is the author of The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust 1938-1945 (Schocken, 1980...
...He began to create Chanukah menorahs as a memorial to Gavri, who was born during Chanukah...
...Nearly every Orthodox synagogue in the United States today has separate seating for men and women, but in the 1940s and 1950s, this was not so...
...To successfully enlist the efforts of secular Jews, we must first understand their relationship to the Jewish community...
...Bryen's own success in halting shipments of military-related equipment to Iraq was not nearly enough to stop the flow, he says...
...The first step is to remove the secrecy restriction on information about supplies that are shipped from the U.S...
...Schiffman, a specialist on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the history of Jewish law, is a professor of Judaic studies at New York University...
...Iraq is well on its way to becoming self-sufficient in the manufacture of its military hardware...
...Brooten is assistant professor of scripture and interpretation at Harvard Divinity School...
...A sampling of Myrim's creative, varied designs—as beautiful as they are meaningful—can be found in "That Gavri's Memory Might Live" (p...
...Israel's "demographic problem"—that Palestinians and Israeli Arabs make up nearly 40 percent of Israel's population—is on the lips and consciousness of Israel's Jews, says Leonard Fein, based on his recent visit to Israel...
Vol. 14 • December 1989 • No. 7
