Judaism articles from March 2000

Judaism archives from March 2000

Theological Impressionism.
March 22, 2000... IT IS A COMMONPLACE THAT DOGMA IS A CONCEPT THAT is not at home in Judaism. Doctrine--a concept with a softer ring--is another matter. As with the Maimonidean "principles of faith," doctrine has occasionally found its way even into the liturgy....

Amichai's Counter-Theology: Opening Open Closed Open.(Yehunda Amicahi)
March 22, 2000... ON THE COVER OF OPEN CLOSED OPEN, YEHUNDA AMICAHI'S new collection of poems, there is a fragment of a broken gravestone with the word "Amen" carved on it. The stone, from a Jewish cemetery destroyed nearly a thousand years ago in his...

Land of the Postscript: Canada and the Post-Holocaust Fiction of Chava Rosenfarb.
March 22, 2000... BY DEFINITION, YIDDISH LITERATURE IS A LITERATURE of exile, since Yiddish itself is a language of the diaspora. Nevertheless, Yiddish literature does have a "home and native land"--to borrow the words of the Canadian national anthem--and that...

And then there was Kafka.(Poem)
March 22, 2000... And then there was Kafka: He died before all of his people, his sisters among them, would become cockroaches to be incinerated by those who spoke that language, the one that whirled in his head, exploded in...

The Anne Frank Myth.(supposed anti-Nazi feeling in the Netherlands)
March 22, 2000... "WHEN THE FOOTBALL TEAM AJAX"-AN AMSTERDAM-based soccer team formerly owned by Jews [and pronounced Ayyaks]--"runs out onto the field in Utrecht, the home-team fans in the stadium greet them with a great sssssssssssssssssssssssssss sound." ...

Irving Greenberg and a Jewish Dialectic of Hope.
March 22, 2000... RABBI IRVING GREENBERG IS A WRITER, EDUCATOR, AND communal leader who provides an articulate model, one especially important at this time, of an open and committed modern Orthodox Jew. He was born in New York in 1933 and presents a distinctive...

50th Anniversary: April 11, 1995.(Poem)
March 22, 2000... Snow fell on us like ashes. We wore nametags, color-coded: the ones visiting and the ones returning. We carried canvas bags and itineraries. The hotel had a swimming pool and flowerbeds. My father spoke German on the...

Greek and Jew: Philo and the Alexandrian Riots of 38-41 CE.
March 22, 2000... For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Job III:25 PHILO, THE JEW OF ANCIENT ALEXANDRIA, WAS PRODUCT and part of two worlds, Jewish and Greek. Much of his life and thought was...

American Jewish Congress Perspective on Cuba.
March 22, 2000... IN RESPONSE TO URGENT REQUESTS FOR MEDICINES WHICH were in short supply, Jack Rosen, President of the American Jewish Congress, for a number of years has arranged for permission to fly in planeloads of needed medications to Havana for...

A Jewish Renaissance in Castro's Cuba.
March 22, 2000... CUBA IS A COUNTRY VISITED BY RELATIVELY FEW AMERICANS. Despite the fact that it is only 90 miles south of Key West, Florida, there are severe restrictions placed on Americans who would like to visit the country. The Clinton administration has...

Anything Goes?(examination of Jewish belief)
March 22, 2000... MENACHEM KELLNER, WHOSE WORK SHOULD BE BETTER known than it now is in American Jewish thought, is a philosopher and professor of Jewish Religious Thought at Haifa University in the important Wolfson chair. Trained by Steven Schwarzschild...

Lies About the Holocaust.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide. By ALAIN FINKIELKRAUT. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis. By WILLIAM D....

Resisting the Holocaust, Remembering the Holocaust.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Resisting the Holocaust. By RUBY ROHRLICH, ed. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1998, with Notes on the Contributors and Index. The Way to Hanita. By MYRA KAYE London: Minerva Press, 1995. When I, a black American, was in the Holocaust Museum...