Writers' Block
WRITERS' BLOCK Yehuda Litani ("Will the Intifada Cross the Green Line," p. 32) reports on Jewish-Arab relations within Israel and developments in the occupied territories for the Tel Aviv daily...
...Judith Pearl has a background in journalism and has held executive posts in Jewish communal organizations...
...He was a member of the executive board of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington and a vice-president of Seaboard Region of United Synagogue of America...
...A member of the commission that produced Emel Ve-Emunah: The Statement of the Principles of Conservative Judaism (Jewish Theological Seminary, 1988), his most recent book is Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern few (Jewish Publication Society, 1990...
...Husband and wife team Jonathan and Judith Pearl, ("As Others See Us—Jews On TV," p. 38) have been studying, writing, lecturing and teaching about the images of Jews, Judaism and Israel on popular television for many years...
...Neil Gillman ("Why You Can't Pray and What You Can Do About It," p. 48) is Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America...
...A guest professor at George Washington National Law Center, Driesen has written articles for legal and Jewish interest journals, including "Jonas Phillips and the American Constitution" (The Reconstructionist, Jan./Feb...
...He also worked as political correspondent and West Bank and Gaza Strip correspondent for the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz...
...Sarna is married to Rabbi Ruth Langer and they look forward to sharing The Adventures of K'tonton with their two-year-old son, Aaron...
...1990...
...He was formerly Middle East Affairs Editor of the Jerusalem Post...
...During 1972-73, Litani was spokesman for the military government in the West Bank...
...A partner in the law firm of Zwerdling, Paul, Leibig, Kahn & Thompson, George Driesen ("How God Gets In the Way of Praying," p. 50) is a member of the Board of Governors of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the Board of Advisors of the American Family Foundation...
...from New York University's Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies...
...Special counsel in the Washington, D.C...
...He recently assumed the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professorship in American Jewish History at Brandeis University...
...p. 22) is active in the American Jewish Congress and B'nai B'rith and has been president of local chapters of both organizations...
...A member of the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund, she has written numerous articles about historic preservation and urban revitalization...
...For the past decade his vignettes and anecdotal stories under the tides "No Man's Land" and "Crossroads" have described daily life of Jews and Arabs in Israel and the territories for readers of Ha'aretz, the Jerusalem Post and Hadashol...
...They founded and direct the Jewish Televimages Resource Center to increase awareness of Jewish images on TV...
...Planner and consultant Phyllis Myers (The Old Shuls in Eastern Europe: Are They Worth Saving...
...Jonathan Pearl received a Ph.D...
...WRITERS' BLOCK Yehuda Litani ("Will the Intifada Cross the Green Line," p. 32) reports on Jewish-Arab relations within Israel and developments in the occupied territories for the Tel Aviv daily Hadashol...
...Jonathan D. Sarna ("From K'tonton to the Torah," p. 44) taught at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati from 1979-1990, where he became director of the Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience...
...office of Rosenman & Colin, Jerold L. Jacobs ("Is It Time For a Jewish Justice...
...p. 28) is president of State Resource Strategies, which advises government and private groups about preservation of natural and historic sites...
...Sarna has also taught at the University of Cincinnati and Yale University, where he obtained his doctorate...
...He was dean of the seminary's Rabbinical School and associate provost responsible for the seminary's outreach program...
...He has written or edited eight books including The American Jewish Experience (Holmes & Meier, 1986) and JPS: The Americanization of Jewish Culture (Jewish Publication Society, 1989...
Vol. 15 • October 1990 • No. 5
