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...Press of America, 1985...

...He is the author of Contexts and Content' Higher Jewish Education in the United States—Spertus College oj Judaica—A Case Study (Spertus Coll...

...He also serves as professor of Middle Eastern history and senior research fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University Shaked cofounded and edits the book series Middle East Contemporary Survey, and he most recently contributed "Continuity and Change: An Overview" to The Arab-Israeli Conflict...

...Perspectives (Praeger, 1990) Fifteen years ago, Leonid Feldman ("A Heartbreaking Return to Kishinev," p. 32) was teaching scientific atheism in the Soviet Union and barely knew he was ajew...

...She also wrote the children's novel Last Night I Saw Andromeda (H J. Walck, 1975) At Chicago's Spertus College of Judaica, Byron Sherwin ("Chairs Are for Tochises," p. 28) is vice-president for academic affairs and David C. Verson Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism Sherwin has rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a doctorate in cultural history from the University of Chicago...

...Martins, 1981), Karas is presently completing her second book, Such Sweet Sorrow Understanding How Mothers and Sons Separate Leah Shanks Gordon ("A Birthday Tour of Hell A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto," p. 22 ), an editor, researcher and art reporter for Time magazine for nearly 30 years, has written on art for many publications, including the New York Times, Smithsonian and New York magazine She has interviewed such art world luminaries as Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dah, Andrew Wyeth and Andy Warhol...

...of Judaica, 1987) and The Golem Legend Origins and Implications (Univ...

...He is the first Soviet refusenik to become a Conservative rabbi and serves at Temple Emanu-El in Palm Beach, Florida Recently married, he took his wife Melissa on a honeymoon to Kishinev, where they both lectured and taught Judaism...

...Gordon is also an avid collector of antique and estate jewelry and antique lace Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel ("The Ger, The Stranger and the Convert," p. 4) has written more than 30 books, many have won numerous awards, including the Prix Medicis for A Beggar in Jerusalem (Random House, 1970) and the Grand Prize for Literature from the City of Pans for The Fifth Son (Summit, 1985) Night (Hill and Wang, 1960), an account of his experience during the Shoah, has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into 15 languages Five years ago Wiesel established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity to advance the cause of human rights and peace throughout the world by creating a forum to discuss urgent ethical and moral issues confronting humankind...

...Charlotte Anker ("We Are the Children You Warned Our Parents About," p. 34), an editor at Time-Life Books, is former managing editor of MOMENT She is coauthor of the Broadway musical Onward Victoria and the prize-winning drama Third Child...

...Rabbi Feldman holds graduate degrees in rabbinics from the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, in education from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and ro physics and theater from Kishinev State University in the Soviet Union A professor of English at North Shore Community College in Lynn, Massachusetts, Phyllis Klasky Karas ("Is Kosher Slaughtering Inhumane'" p. 40) is a frequent contributor to the Boston Globe, Sh 'ma, the Jewish Advocate and the Los Angeles Jewish Times Her column, "Living the Life," appeared in the Boston Herald for five years and in 1981 she won the New England Press Association's Best Feature Story award for a four-part series on teenage pregnancies Author of a novel, A Life Worth Living (St...