Judaism articles from June 2002

Judaism archives from June 2002

The sadness and the hope.(Arab-Israel relations)
June 22, 2002... These four accounts are part of a series of personal experiences dealing with encounters with Arabs in Israel and Jordan, from 1990 to 2002. I have been asked whether the increasing violence and terrorism of the past two years has changed the...

El Malei Rachamim.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... El Malei Rachamim KEVIN SNAPP You are called full of compassion in the time of our death (Every death is our death, as none can be Yours); As our eyes fill with pain, You must fill with compassion, But full, self-contained, You do...

In memory of Leo Baeck, and other Jewish thinkers "in dark times": once more, "After Auschwitz, Jerusalem".
June 22, 2002... Remembering Leo Baeck I LAST SPOKE AT HEBREW UNION COLLEGE, JERUSALEM, ON November 7, 2000,just prior to the anniversary of Kristallnacht-the event I was to understand, many years after-as the beginning of the Holocaust. Two days...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2002... In his review of Michael Alexander's Jazz Age Jews in the Spring 2002 issue (Issue 198 Vol.50 No.2), Warren Hoffman noted in an endnote that Jazz Age Jews does not mention The Great Gatsby or indicate that Meyer Wolfsheim is clearly Arnold...

The shattered tablets of the Law.(Ten Commandments)
June 22, 2002... I AM GOING TO SUGGEST A WAY TO READ JEWISH SACRED texts and will use the word "Torah" as inclusive of these texts. I start from the viewpoint that the texts are intelligible and infinite, which is a contradiction. And from the viewpoint that...

The Open Scroll.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... The Open Scroll NORMAN D. HIRSH I. White on Black Leo Baeck in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, And how many other languages on the board, A survivor, an old man, a European scholar, teaching The...

The Moses Complex in Modern Jewish Literature.
June 22, 2002... THE PUBLICATION OF JAN ASSMANN'S MOSES THE EGYPTIAN (1997) has provided the grounds for a revitalization of the study of images of Moses in subsequent culture and, more specifically, the images of Moses in Modern Jewish Literature. (1) The...

Discovering the Netziv and his Ha'amaik Davar.(Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin)
June 22, 2002... THERE IS A TALMUDIC APHORISM THAT "A PERSON DOES not fully understand the words of the Torah until he stumbles over them." (1) Surely the circumstances of our lives, the people whom we meet, the unexpected events that leave impressions...

Simchat Torah.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Simchat Torah STEFI WEISBURD Rabbi shoulders the Torah this one rescued from the Nazis' warehouse in Czechoslovakia A pied piper, he threads ribbons of children through aisles, dancing and shouting like weather sprung from...

Brazilian ba'alot teshuvah and the paradoxes of their religious conversion.
June 22, 2002... Religious Conversion and the Reformulation of Jewish identity in Sao Paulo THE BEGINNING OF THE 1990s CONSTITUTED A MILESTONE in the consolidation of Jewish Orthodoxy in the city of Sao Paulo and in the Brazilian Jewish community as a...

Miriam's Desire.(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Miriam's Desire ROBERT MANASTER A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar, not to go out. Leviticus 6:6 Convince me otherwise. While centuries of prayer Fall to ground underdeemed-- Lived...

Modern Orthodoxy in crisis: a test case.
June 22, 2002... IT IS NO SECRET THAT CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN MODERN Orthodoxy is in crisis. This would have surprised observers of American Judaism a half century ago who were predicting that Orthodoxy of any variety would soon be such a marginal phenomenon that...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2002... In "Henrietta Szold Meets Gluckel of Hameln," by Roberta Hanfling Schwartz (Spring 2002: Issue 202 Vol.51 No.2), line 7 of the 2nd paragraph should read: "From Baltimore they were Reverend A. Kaiser, Reverend Dr. Salo, and Reverend Dr. B....

From the University Presses. (Current Theological Writing).
June 22, 2002... THE OUTPOURING OF IMPORTANT WRITING ON JEWISH history and thought in recent decades becomes ever more abundant. From Indiana, SUNY, Chicago, Princeton, and Nebraska (to name only a portion of the most active school publishers) have come dozens,...

Rav Soloveitchik's legacy. (Reviews).(Love and Terror in the God Encounter)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Love and Terror in the God Encounter. By DAVID HARTMAN. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2001 Rabbi David Hartman is a well-known exponent of modem Orthodox Judaism. His Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem has been a center for the...

Writing the self: a woman's story. (Reviews).(Moving Tales: My Journey from Victim to Victor, A Memoir)(Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Moving Tales: My Journey from Victim to Victor, A Memoir. By SHIRLEY PRIMACK AZEN. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation 2001. Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman. By HELEN JACOBUS APTE, edited by MARCUS D. ROSENBAUM....

Rights and Jewish tradition: claiming the higher and middle grounds. (Reviews).(Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory. By DAVID NOVAK. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. David Novak's Covenantal Rights is a bold effort to reshape Jewish political theory and political theory in general....

Communications.(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2002... DEAR EDITOR: I have no quarrel with any of the comments made by Professor Lawrence Kaplan in his instructive review of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Family Redeemed, edited by Schatz and Wolowelsky (Judaism, Fall 2001). He did, I think,...