Judaism articles from January 2001

Judaism archives from January 2001

"Imaginative Insight": Midrash and African-American Preaching.
January 1, 2001... A hallmark of Black preaching has been its ability to take the things not said in the text and apply them to today's context. Reverend Carlyle Stewart [1] My message today is two-fold. First, open your eyes to the Bible. These are not...

Flight from Egypt: Blacks, Jews, Diasporas.
January 1, 2001... "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" saith the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir? - Amos 9:7 LET US START BY...

Observations and Reflections on the History and Meanings of the Kaddish.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... THE KADDISH EVOLVED FROM A SIMPLE LINE OF BIBLICAL praise to a liturgical formula for dividing the liturgy into its parts and for celebrating a study session. It, then, developed into a prayer for the dead and has been, and continues to be,...

My Son's Dream.(Poem)
January 1, 2001... "Mom," he says, "I never told you this." He opens his eyes and smiles into the room as if the Donald Duck lamp on his desk emitted love, not incandescent light reflecting from the still-dark window-glass. "I couldn't be...

After Auschwitz, Jerusalem: In Memory of My Teacher, Leo Baeck.
January 1, 2001... I BEGIN BY THANKING PROFESSOR AMIR WHO HAS introduced me. The fact that it was he who introduced me has been emotional for me if only because his father, Yehoshua Amir, was a fellow student of mine, back until 1938, of Leo Baeck's at the...

Song.(Poem)
January 1, 2001... The poem Moses wrote about the Sea recalled the fate of rider and the horse God caused to fall, while dry upon the lee the Israelites maintained a steady course. He sang it without instruments, his voice was a capella, no...

Mr. Mani and the Akedah.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... MY NOVEL, MR. MANI, CONCLUDES WITH THE CONFESSION of Abraham Mani, its protagonist. But what does Abraham want to tell his Rabbi? He recounts the story of the akedah--the binding and sacrifice of Isaac--at the true site where it was meant to be...

How Green Is Judaism? Exploring Jewish Environmental Ethics.
January 1, 2001... ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT JEWISH issue: it links the Jewish tradition of ethical analysis to a significant contemporary problem. [1] Jewish tradition makes a distinctive and important contribution to our understanding of...

On the Fiftieth Yahrtzeit of Milton Steinberg.
January 1, 2001... THERE IS ONE RABBI, NOW DEAD, MANY of WHOSE writings I have read, whom I would like to have heard speak from the pulpit or lecture platform and with whom, I am sure, I would have delighted in conversing. He had a reputation for intellectual...

Choosing Difference: South African Jewish Writers.
January 1, 2001... JEWISH IMMIGRATION INTO SOUTH AFRICA ON ANY CONSIDERABLE scale began relatively late: there were a few Jewish families amongst the wave of English-speaking colonists who arrived in 1820, but they do not seem to have had the time, the impulse,...

Post-Zionism in the Periodicals.
January 1, 2001... THE RECENT BOOK BY YORAM HAZONY, THE JEWISH STATE: THE Struggle for Israel's Soul (Basic Books, 2000), is the most important reaction to the work of the so-called New Historians and Post-Zionists in the present Israeli intellectual...

"Holocaust Memory: Bad for the Jews?".
January 1, 2001... The Holocaust in American Life. By PETER NOVICK. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Imagine a well-meaning person-Jewish or non-Jewish--who has been moved by a visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, who has waded through historical accounts...

The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present.
January 1, 2001... The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present. By ESTHER BENBASSA. Translated by M. B DE BEVOISE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. The Jews of Modern France. By PAULA HYMAN. Berkeley: University of California...

Communications.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... DEAR EDITOR: I would like to add a postscript to my article in the last issue of Judaism ("Jewish Resistance in Holland: Group Westerweel and Hachshara," Judaism, Fall 2000: 449-459) about the Jewish halutzim in the Dutch resistance group...