In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Moment's coverage of the aftermath of the White House handshake, in Perspective (p. 4), Responsa (p. 34), Columns (pp. 24, 30) and open letters to Yasser Arafat, looks at this historic...
...44), Tom Sawicld explores the implications of the scandal...
...She recently completed a book on the Jewish life cycle...
...He told Chana Rochel's story in They Called Her Rebbe (Judaica Press), which was banned from many Orthodox bookstores...
...Seven people—James Baker III, Midge Decter, Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, Ilsa and Lisa Klinghoffer, Tom Dine and Amos Oz— united only by their yearning for peace, write "Dear Yasser" (p...
...Chana Rochel served as a rebbe to her followers in Poland 150 years ago, writes Gershon Winkler in "They Called Her Rebbe" (p...
...Haviva Krasner-Davidson is an M.FA...
...54), challenges Orthodoxy's prohibition on the ordination of women through her own intense study and strong commitment to halachah...
...Dinitz's career might be over...
...Simcha Dinitz, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., is charged with using charitable dollars for personal expenses at a time when the Jewish Agency, the main recipient of UJA funds, is in need of serious reform...
...She holds degrees from the Yeshiva University's Graduate School of Jewish Studies and its Teachers Institute and has taught at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem...
...Barry Chazan is a Jewish Education Consultant of the Jewish Community Centers Association and of the Charles R. Bronfman Foundation...
...candidate at the University of Maryland, where she also teaches writing...
...Haviva Krasner-Davidson, a young Orthodox woman, feels close to God when she prays with her lallit and tefiUin...
...her two daughters, Shira and Shoshana, helped test out the books...
...The Jewish holiday stranglehold on the children's book market is beginning to break as some notable new entries focus on the values of everyday Jewish living—so observes Rahel Musleah in "Imagining a Jewish World" (p...
...Why I'm Applying to Yeshiva University" (p...
...Though eventually she was excommunicated and moved to the land of Israel, Chana Rochel serves as an important Orthodox role model for our own day...
...Imagine the effect on American Jewish life if 30 percent of Jewish teenagers experience a quality Israel program, challenge Barry Chazan and Peter Geffen in The Israel Experience: Entering the Biblical Drama" (p...
...Optimism shares space in many Jewish hearts with fear and anguish about our partner in the agreement that starts Israel on an untried road...
...She is also the first woman to apply to Yeshiva University's rabbinic school...
...Rahel Musleah, a New York-based free-lance journalist, contributes frequently to the New York Times, Hadassah and Publishers Weekly...
...A trip to Israel will soon be available to most Jewish teens and may transform the community...
...In "Dinitz and Dollars: The Jewish Agency at a Crossroads" (p...
...A critical mass of Jewishly educated women and the example of Conservative and Reform women rabbis is creating a movement toward Orthodox ordination of women, writes Blu Greenberg in "Is Now the Time for Orthodox Women Rabbis...
...Peter Geffen directs the Israel Experience Program of the Charles R Bronfman Foundation and is the founder of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York...
...24, 30) and open letters to Yasser Arafat, looks at this historic event in new ways...
...Tom Sawicki is a senior writer ibr the Jerusalem Report and former special projects coordinator of the Anti-Defamation League's Israel office...
...Last May, she and her husband Jacob named their baby daughter Michal, after Haviva's maternal grandfather and after the biblical Michal who, according to the Talmud, wore lefillin...
...Gershon Winkler is an Orthodox-ordained circuit-riding rabbi based in New Mexico...
...Blu Greenberg, author of On Women andJudaism: A View From Tradition, is the mother of five...
...Will the Jewish Agency survive...
Vol. 18 • December 1993 • No. 6
