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EDITOR'S CORNER
Oct 01, 2006; Engelmayer, Shammai ... It is not a mistake. This really is the Fall-Winter 2006 issue, even though the last one was "Summer-Fall 2006" and these are the waning days of Summer 2007. Somewhere along the line, we got out of sync with our publication dates (as librarians keep reminding us). Getting "in sync" is ...
The Stutterer
Oct 01, 2006; Azriel, Yakov ... And Moses said to the Lord, "Phase, O Lord, I am not a man of words ... I am heavy of speech and heavy of tongue. " (Exodus 4:10) Of course you stutter, our teacher Moses; How heavy Is the Word of God, this mountain Which leaves you panting As you ...
The Passover Haggadah: Moses and the Human Role in Redemption
Oct 01, 2006; Arnow, David ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Hebrew characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) IT IS WIDELY ACCEPTED THAT THE PASSOVER HAGgadah attributes responsibility for the redemption from Egypt to God alone and leaves no room for a human role. Two proofs are said to confirm this: * ...
The Mysterious Disappearance of Sarah
Oct 01, 2006; Zucker, David J ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Hebrew characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) ONE OF THE UNRESOLVED MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE chapters of the Genesis narrative is the location of one of its central figures -the matriarch Sarah-for over 30 years.1 The last time Sarah appears alive is ...
The Assimilation of Judaism: Heschel and the 'Category Mistake'
Oct 01, 2006; Sherwin, Byron L ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Hebrew characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) We may accept or reject [Judaism], but should not distort it. -Abraham Joshua Heschel1 THIS YEAR (2007) MARKS THE CENTENARY OF THE birth of my mentor, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) ....
Ben Zoma's Query on Genesis 1:7(1): Was it what drove him insane?
Oct 01, 2006; Pinker, Aron ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Hebrew characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) IN GENESIS RABBAH 4:7(2), WE FIND AN INTRIGUING midrash regarding Genesis 1:7: God made the expanse-this is one of the verses with which Ben Zoma3 shook the world. "He 'made'?" [Ben Zoma said.] "I ...
Nazi-Looted Art: The Case of the Missing Perspective
Oct 01, 2006; Korte, Willi ... ART RESTITUTION GIVES A VERY LIMITED PICTURE OF what the general public and the art and museum worlds should understand about an artwork and who owned it. Obviously, if families had artworks stolen during the Nazi era, they should be able to claim them. It would be most unfortunate, however, if ...
Waldsee 1944 Postcard Exhibition: A 'Woodland Lake' in Auschwitz
Oct 01, 2006; Turai, Hedvig ... The artisans of execution would not meet the industrial challenge with more gun cartridges-Mass murder demanded the gas Zyklon B and the mystification of its victims as well .... -Alain Finkielkraut1 IN THE SUMMER OF 1944, RECENTLY DEPORTED PERsons sent postcards to Budapest from ...
You Can't Be Holy Alone
Oct 01, 2006; Schorsch, Ismar ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Hebrew characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) A COMMUNITY'S CHOSEN FOUNDATION MYTH often tells us more about its state of mind than its beginnings. An earlier generation of American Jews preferred to locate its origins in the new world among the ...
Getting Pluralism Back on Track: Conversion and the Challenge of Jewish Peoplehood
Oct 01, 2006; Kleinberg, Darren ... WHAT HAPPENED TO PLURALISM IN THE JEWISH community? Twenty years ago, when Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg wrote his influential essays, "Will there be one Jewish people by the year 2000?"' and "Towards a Principled Pluralism,"2 he wrote with a sense of fear that the Jewish community would not be ...
Developments in Catholic-Jewish Relations: 1990 and Beyond
Oct 01, 2006; Pawlikowski, John T ... THE LAST 15 YEARS OR SO HAVE WITNESSED SIGNIFIcant new developments as well as the emergence of new challenges in the Catholic-Jewish relationship. Some of these developments and challenges concern the Holocaust; the theology of the Church's relationship with Judaism in the light of new biblical ...
The Peril in Ignoring the Protocols
Oct 01, 2006; Henry, Marilyn ... THERE IS MUCH COMMOTION IN GERMANY THESE days about what to do about Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's hate-filled rantings from jail. The fear is that when the copyright expires in 2015, the possible mass publication of the book would introduce new generations to Hitler's odious views and traumatize ...
Bridging the Gap
Oct 01, 2006; Barzilay, Judith M ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Hebrew characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) Bridging the Gap The Judge in a Democracy, by AHARON BARAK, Princeton University Press. Reviewed by JUDITH M. BARZILAY In every political campaign, Americans hear a constant ...
This Realm
Oct 01, 2006; Anish, Matthew ... After taking long vacations in Middle Earth, Shangri La and Barsoom a weary traveler returns to earth This realm which can fill one with wonder Otherworldly philosophers are only a small part of the truths we seek Friday night ...
A Very Real Person
Oct 01, 2006; Rubin, Merle ... A Very Real Person Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination, by MARK KRUPNICK. Edited by JEAN K. CARNEY and MARK SHECHNER. University of Wisconsin. Reviewed by MERLE RUBIN What does it mean to consider yourself a Jew if you have no interest, let alone belief, ...