Judaism articles from June 2001

Judaism archives from June 2001

Introduction to David Weiss Halivni's "Prayer in the Shoah".
June 22, 2001... YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT testimonies on record of the theological consequences of the Shoah. It is a wrenching, troubling and yet tragically affirmative account of what it means to have prayed in the camps and to pray...

Prayer in the Shoah.
June 22, 2001... This essay was prepared as a meditation to accompany the prayerbook, Machzor Wolfsberg, published by Yad Vashem. The Machzor contains High Holiday prayers transcribed from memory by the Satmar Hazan Naphtali Stern, z"l, in 1944, in preparation...

Rosh hashanah.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... The birthday of adam the innocent earthling and the day hagar and ishmael found water in the desert in memory of whom mud staining our shoes we sniff the smell of living dying things at time's damp edge ...

Yom kippur.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... we destroy we break we are broken and this is the fast you have chosen on rosh hashana it is written on yom kippur it is sealed who shall live and who shall die which goat will have his throat cut like an unlucky...

The desert song of Jonah.(Poem)
June 22, 2001... I am alone at the party the gaiety of the falsely repentant is like a lidless eye leers at me like a golden desert sun it is not your task to judge but to speak you are my mouth my tongue Oh I see that...

Studying Torah: Commentary, Interpretation, Translation.
June 22, 2001... THE FIRST PORTION OF THE TORAH HAS A DOUBLE ROLE: it conveys its own story, and it sets the context of the entire Torah. The Torah's stories have been observed to be rich in background, as opposed to, for example, the epic poems of Homer. In...

Images and Jewish Identity: Three Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century France.
June 22, 2001... JEWISH HISTORIANS HAVE LONG LOOKED TO TEXTS, BE they literary, philosophical, religious, political, or historical, as expressions of modern Jewish identity. The visual arts, however, have rarely been exploited in this way by these same Jewish...

Despite Scurrying Time.(Review)
June 22, 2001... EMIL FACKENHEIM ONCE FELL SILENT IN THE MIDST OF a discussion of his work on the Holocaust. Tears rolled down his cheeks, and in his eyes flashed the dark flame of a startling realization. His lips trembling, he explained: "Now I see what I...

"Babe in the Yiddish Woods": Dos Lied fun Hiavat'a.(Yiddish translation of Song of Hiawatha)
June 22, 2001... THE FATE OF YIDDISH ON THE AMERICAN SCENE HAS seemed something more to lament than to celebrate, a perverse drift into irrelevance if not near-extinction. But there is, as scholars and readers increasingly recognize, another story interwoven...

Against Theodicy.
June 22, 2001... The Classical Problem of Evil IT HAS LONG BEEN URGED AGAINST TRADITIONAL THEISM, very long indeed, that God's perfections-specifically in the domains of goodness, knowledge and power-are logically incompatible with the existence of...

Indian Love Call: Israelis, Orthodoxy, and Indian Culture.
June 22, 2001... ON PASSOVER 2000 APPROXIMATELY 17,000 ISRAELIS WERE in India during Israel's Passover vacation holiday. Most of them were on short visits, of a week to two or three months; others were on more extended stays in Ashrams, on Himalayan treks, or...

Against Spirituality.(personal spirituality versus social connectedsness through religion)
June 22, 2001... ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BOOKS OF SOCIAL CRITICISM published in recent years is Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone. [1] Its subtitle, "The Collapse and Revival of American Community," describes the dour findings of a Harvard social scientist....

Einstein: Science, Religion, Theology.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. By MAX JAMMER. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. "Einstein used to speak so often about God that I tend to believe he has been a disguised theologian," Frederick Duerrenmatt said....

The Talmud and the Internet.(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds. By JONATHAN ROSEN. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 The general reaction to this book has been very favorable with well-known writers attesting to its quality. As a literary...

East/West: Home Cooking is Best.(The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World; Cucina Ebraica; Sephardic Flavors; The Foods of Israel Today; The Foods of Israel Today)(Review)
June 22, 2001... The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World. By MIMI SHERATON. New York: Broadway Books, 2000. Passover Cookery in the Kitchen. By JOAN KEKST. Chandler, AZ: Five Star Publications, 2001. Cucina Ebraica. BY JOYCE GOLDSTEIN....

Alma's Orchestra.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Alma Rose: from Vienna to Auschwitz By RICHARD NEWMAN (with KAREN KIRTLEY). Portland. Oregon: Amadeus Press, 2000. Alfred Rose, my teacher of the history of opera at the University of Western Ontario's Music School in the mid-1960s, never...

Communications.(Review)
June 22, 2001... DEAR EDITOR: Your article in the winter issue ("Mr. Mani and the Akedah," Winter 2001) interested me greatly. Your solution to the horrifying story of Abraham and Isaac is brilliant. As a secular Jew, I do not believe that the story of...