IN A MOMENT

IN A MOMENT Covering current events for 2 bimonthly like moment can present problems, but it can also present opportunities, as the Gulf crisis illustrates. On the one hand, things can change so...

...After one distinguished analyst agreed to write .on the Gulf crisis for ibis issue, he called me back to decline: He had read Joseph Al pliers commentary in the last issue and found that Alphcr had already written everything he wanted lo say for this issue...
...And thai is what we try to do...
...On a related topic, sociologist Egon Mayer examines the Chanukah-Christ-mas holiday dialectic and its significance for American Jewish identity, especially for the interfaith married (p...
...His answers will tell us whether traditional Jewish scholarship still has something to say to American Jews at the end of the 20th century...
...With the Chanukah<;hrisimas season approaching, it'5 a particularly timely, as wrell as sensitive subject...
...Finally, Joel Bainerman suggests that the U.S...
...Enjoy the moment...
...16), We introduce a new department in this issue, giving you an opportunity to ask a recognized Talmudic scholar, Rabbi David Golinkin, your moral and ethical questions...
...Of course, 1 was pleased that Alpher's comments were so fresh and pertinent even though ihey bad been written more lhan four weeks earlier...
...The rest of the issue you'll have to discover for yourself...
...See p. 22...
...Newly discovered archives are now available in Eastern Europe, resources abound in the U.S...
...Herbert Friedman, still voting at 72, speaks to the thirtysonicthing generation, urging action to develop programs of leadership through Jewish education (p...
...That's the only way to secure our future...
...The five commentaries on the Guir crisis in this issue place the implications for Israel in a broader context...
...Bui this possibility is also OUT advantage—it forces us to focus on the deeper currents that have more lasting significance...
...W. Seth Cams considers whether President Bush missed the boat in failing to make an earlier surgical military strike...
...Richard Pipes turns to tbe Soviet Union, weighing its involvement in Middle Eastern diplomacy...
...On the one hand, things can change so rapidly as to he out-of-date hy tbe time we appear in print...
...It would he bard 10 find a more distinguished group of commentators: Barry Rubin analyzes the ramifications of the changes in Jordan and Syria...
...Turning to other subjects, genealogist Miriam Wcincr teaches you how to search out your own family tree (p...
...and Israel and interviewing techniques are easy to acquire...
...In this issue, Golinkin talks about artificial insemination for a single woman (p- 18...
...Martin Upset examines the effect on the Pl.O as a player...
...Veshiva University professor Louis Feldman's probing inquiry into antiscmitism in the New Testament on p, 32 may surprise you...
...Fe Id man's discussion will certainly stir a great deal or debate...
...and Israel cut a new financial deal...
...There's much more...
...We trust they will still be pertinent as well as profound by the time you read the ill...
...In add it i on T the pictures accompanying the commentaries, plus our tovcr picture, tell a powerful story o\ their own...

Vol. 15 • December 1990 • No. 6


 
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