Judaism back issues from September 2001:
Suicide bombers, Authoritarian minds, and the Denial of others.
Sep 22, 2001; ... DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALE IN NEW York and Washington; not only adults but children too were deliberately targeted by suicide bombers in Israel. More Americans died in the attacks on New York and Washington than on any single day during World War Two. Had it not been for the ...
Erev Rosh Hashanah U'vchen: And therefore sanctify life.
Sep 22, 2001; ... "ON ROSH HASHANAH IT IS WRITTEN AND ON YOM Kippur it is sealed, who shall live and who shall die ... who shall die by fire and who by water ... who by violence and who by wild beast ... who shall be tranquil, and who shall live in fear ...." According to tradition, in the Middle Ages, when ...
On turning sorrow into song.
Sep 22, 2001; ... I GREW UP IN A FAMILY OF VOICES. NOT BECAUSE I HAD an especially large family (I am one of three children) but because our house was full of languages, full of the melodies and mysteries of other countries and cultures. Whenever I answered the phone, I expected to hear an accent on the ...
Jolson, Judy, and Jewish memory.
Sep 22, 2001; ... In memory of my mother Dorothy, who like many immigrants of her generation, crossed the rainbow bridge to America, and in New York, Miami, and Madison discovered her Emerald City. Mayerke My Son One blustery afternoon in the late 1940s, Louis B. Mayer and the elder ...
Changing the Halakha.
Sep 22, 2001; ... LIKE MANY, I VIEW WITH ALARM VARIOUS TRENDS IN Jewish religious life which have become increasingly severe and strict during the last half-century. Oddly, many recent changes in Jewish Law emanate from the extreme right. If we who occupy the religious center do not become as passionate, ...
Why the Holocaust is unique.
Sep 22, 2001; ... IF THE HOLOCAUST WAS UNIQUE, FOR German Jews it was uniquely unique. Throughout Europe what was done to the Jews was done by an invading enemy, but for the Jews in Germany it was done by people they, so to speak, went to school with. This opening sentence I could not have said ...
"Not Enough" vs. "Plenty": Which did Pius XII do?
Sep 22, 2001; ... THAT SUSAN ZUCCOTTI AND RONALD RYCHLAK--AMONG many others--have been quarreling about the role of Pius XII during the Holocaust does not necessarily mean that they disagree; more precisely, it doesn't mean that they disagree about what they think they are disagreeing about--or that they ...
False witness: The Irving-Lipstadt trial and the New Yorker.(analysis of article by Ian Buruma on lawsuit brought by David Irving against author Deborah Lipstadt)
Sep 22, 2001; ... DURING THE PAST YEAR AND A HALFJUDAISM HAS DEVOTED thousands of words to critical (and not so critical) evaluations of numerous books alleging that Jews "exploit" the Holocaust for their own nefarious ends. Whatever one may think of these books-their shrewdest critic is Alvin Rosenfeld in ...
Reading my Poetry in Hebrew translation.
Sep 22, 2001; ... WHILE A PROSE TRANSLATION MAY RECREATE THE original quite faithfully, the intricate nature of poetry makes a language change hazardous and the outcome often uneven. As translator for the University of Iowa Press's Modern Hebrew Poetry (1980) I would upon occasion receive remonstrating ...
Errata.
Sep 22, 2001 ... In "Trauma and Abstract Monotheism: Jewish Exile and Recovery in the Sixth Century B.C.E.," by David Aberbach (Spring 2001), Note 16 ...
The Jewish community and American public policy.
Sep 22, 2001; ... WHEN I STARTED WORKING FOR IT IN 1950, THE NETWORK of Jewish public affairs agencies was in the throes of transformation. The creation of a new institution within that network, and the reformulation of a mission statement were still directed to the traditional defense functions: to protect ...
Repairing Tikkun Olam. (Current Theological Writing).
Sep 22, 2001; ... THE CAPTURE OF THE TALMUDIC-ZOHARIC NOTION OF Tikkun Olam (the correction or repair of the world) by liberal political circles is well-nigh complete. Few remember that the rabbis once meant by the doctrine not much more than fine tuning their construction of the mitzvaksystem so that it ...
Passing and other Paradoxes of Holocaust Survival. (Reviews).(Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum)(My Father's Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Teenager, 1938-1945)
Sep 22, 2001; ... Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum. By IRENE GRUNBAUM. Translated and edited by Katherine Morris. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. My Father's Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Teenager, 1938-1945. By EDWARD GASTFRIEND. Edited by Bjorn ...
Ana Pauker and the Jewish Communists. (Reviews).(Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist)
Sep 22, 2001; ... Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist. By ROBERT LEVY. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2001. A few months after the liberation of her country, Ana Pauker, the best known, and perhaps the most powerful Rumanian communist at the time, ...
Soloveitchik on Family Relationships. (Reviews).(Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships)
Sep 22, 2001; ... Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships. By RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK edited by DAVID SHATZ and JOEL WOLOWELSKY. Toras HaRav Foundation, n.p., 2000. The book before us is Volume One of the MeOtzar HoRav Series: Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. As ...
Restoring the Prominent Middle. (Reviews).(The Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities)
Sep 22, 2001; ... The Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities. By DANIEL J. ELAZAR and RELA MINTZ GEFFEN. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. Daniel Elazar and Rela Mintz Geffen argue that Conservative Judaism is in trouble. The list of maladies is long: ...
Are We One? (Reviews).
Sep 22, 2001; ... Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel. By JEROLD AUERBACH. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2001. Ever since its establishment, Israel has been a source of Jewish anxiety as well as of Jewish hope. The balance between the two shifts over time ...