In A Moment
IN A MOMENT The new "Jewish evangelism" is not tracts and door-to-door solicitations. It's outreach within our | Jewish community, fueled by anxiety about the survival of the Jewish family....
...The power of the land of Israel," says Gershon Shaked, "lies in my ability to show my nakedness in a [public] bathhouse without dread...
...Penguin, 1991, paperback...
...Mayer looks to how the American Jewish community can use this demographic revolution to stem the tide of American Judaism's demographic dip...
...The Next Best Thing," (p...
...34) Milton Berle's affectionate short story, introduces us to the Thursday night poker game and characters out of New York in the early years of this century...
...Fenyvesi, a senior editor with U.S...
...Fenyvesi captures Singer's essence—"a storytelling quest living off his memories of another land and another time...
...In "How Central Is Israel...
...Mayer's research has focused on interfaith relationships and their effect on American Jewish demographics...
...Shimoni made aliyah in 1961 and has served as director of numerous international seminars on contemporary Jewish studies...
...Television...
...Last year's National Jewish Population Study found that 120,000 American Jews were not born Jewish...
...others are thinly disguised people from his childhood...
...His article for MOMENT is based on a paper presented at the home of the president of Israel for the Study Circle on World Jewry...
...News & World Report, recently wrote When the World Was Whole (Viking, 1990...
...in the next two decades that figure may triple...
...28), Jews should begin welcoming non-Jewish spouses and children more openly into the fold...
...A professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Hebrew University, Shaked has served as a visiting professor at numerous universities including University of California at Berkeley, Hebrew Union College, Columbia and Harvard...
...Some are straight from Berle's imagination...
...A child refu-__ gee from Nazi-occupied Vienna, Shaked, a renowned literary critic, shares memories of fears that engulfed him more than 50 years ago and that inhabit his consciousness still...
...But what does Zionism mean for Jews who have chosen to live in the Diaspora and how does that Zionism differ from the Zionism of Israeli Jews...
...The other focuses on Israel when the state is in trouble but would not give it special consideration when Israel's needs are less urgent...
...Berle's honors are many: NBC presented him with a lifetime contract "for putting television on the map" and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences proclaimed that he will forever be known as Mr...
...24), Gideon Shimoni identifies two kinds of Zionism—one ultimately requires aliyah...
...He wrote Love and Tradition: Marriage Between Jews and Christians (Schocken, 1985) and recently edited The Imperatives of Jewish Outreach: Responding to Intermarriage in the 1990s and Beyond (Jewish Outreach Institute/Center for Jewish Studies, 1991...
...Conversion Could Be the Answer to the Interfaith Marriage Problem" (p...
...In a piece he calls his kaddish for a man he knew and loved, Charles Fenyvesi remembers Isaac Bashevis Singer (p...
...Shaked, the father of two daughters, lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Malka, also a scholar of Hebrew literature...
...Historically Jews have not been a proselytizing nation, but as interfaith marriage rates soar, suggests sociologist Egon Mayer in "Why Not Judaism...
...18) Shaked explores the terrifying times in 1939 when everything stable and safe became threatening and his arrival all alone in Palestine became the only certainty in which he could believe...
...Shimoni holds the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations at the Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry, where he specializes in research on Zionist history and on English-speaking Diaspora Jews...
...He received Israel's prestigious Bialik Literary Prize in 1986...
...The author of more than 20 books of criticism, among them The Shadows Within: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers (JPS, 1987) and Shmuel Yosef Agnon: A Revolutionary Traditionalist (NYU Press, 1989), Shaked published a part of his MOMENT article in the Forward...
...In "The Persistence of Dread" (p...
...A specialist in the study of religious values as they relate to communal and human relations, Egon Mayer is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and a senior research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies/North American Jewish Data Bank...
...We are all Zionists," has long been the rallying cry of most American Jews...
Vol. 16 • October 1991 • No. 5
