Judaism articles from March 2002

Judaism archives from March 2002

Zionism today.
March 22, 2002... January 17, 2002: Is There an Alternate Route? A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, WE TOOK SOME JEWISH educators who are studying here at the Mandel School for a couple of weeks to the Galilee for some meetings. The theme for the two weeks was basically...

The question of Middle Eastern Studies.
March 22, 2002... READING THROUGH THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, NOT a month after the World Trade Towers in New York City were reduced to smoking ash and twisted steel, I was not unnerved by the reactions contained therein. That one erudite scholar was unable to...

The Western Wall.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... The Western Wall BERNHARD FRANK The spittle of kisses suckles the moss in the stone; Samson size blocks of mountain laid side by side intransigent to human passion remind of glory & rebuke defeat. ...

Writing the Poem at 5 A.M.(Poem)
March 22, 2002... Writing the Poem at 5 A.M. Yellow skinned hunched in night shirt burning the oil in pre-dawn near absolute silence (twitter of finches in the ivy crochets next day's business/ a car abrades the roadway) ...

Images at work versus words at play: Michelangelo's art and the artistry of the Hebrew Bible.
March 22, 2002... Dedicated to the Memory of My Father, Murray Ellis (1923-2001) GOD'S POSTERIOR IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL? I SUSPECT that it can be traced back to the Latin translation by Jerome of an enigmatic word in the Hebrew Bible, just like those horns on...

Amen and amen: blessings of a heretic (like me).
March 22, 2002... WE WHO OBSERVE JEWISH LAW OFTEN WANT TO KNOW what the Halakha is. No less, we ought to ask what the Halakha means. We should consider not only the rules and principles that underlie a given legal decision, but also the phenomenology of adhering...

Klezmer routes: three Jewish musicians from Poland.(Carl Frydman, Leo Rosner, Ben Bazyler)
March 22, 2002... IN JOSEPH GREEN'S POPULAR 1936 YIDDISH FILM, YIDL Mitn Fidi (Yidl With His Fiddle), we meet a group of itinerant Polish-Jewish klezmorim (1) straight out of a Sholem Aleykhem story. (2) In the film they ply their trade throughout the Polish...

Henrietta Szold meets Gluckel of Hameln.(Critical Essay)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... WHEN IN THE EARLY 1880S AN OBSCURE SCHOLAR IN A small city in central Galicia, Przemysl, undertook to publish the correspondence between Rabbi Samuel David Luzzato (1780-1865) and Rabbi Solomon Rappaport (1790-1867), reflective of their deep...

Dr. Arnold, Matthew Arnold, and the Jews.
March 22, 2002... Perhaps the Reverend Dr Arnold, Head Master of Rugby School near Birmingham, would be a proper person. He is one of the most enlightened and liberal of our clergy.... John Stuart Mill, letter of 6 December 1831 (1) ON APRIL 5, 1830, IN...

Dutch and Jewish in the West Indies. (From All Their Habitations).(Excerpt)
March 22, 2002... FOR ME, THE MAJOR EVENT OF 1946 WAS WINNING THE Neerlandia Prize, the award for best student of Dutch in my high school in Curacao. I was eleven years old and, in this Caribbean setting, liked all things Dutch, even our special ceremonies...

"An indelicate silence". (Current Theological Writing).
March 22, 2002... JOSEPH EDELHEIT, A RABBI IN MINNEAPOLIS, HAS WRITTEN a vivid dissertation on the problem of "Interfaith Marriage and the Jewish Christian Dialogue" (1) which, I believe, raises new and poignant questions that have been regularly suppressed....

A lot of noise, but not much to dance to. (Reviews).(Jazz Age Jews)
March 22, 2002... Jazz Age Jews. By Michael Alexander. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. The first thing one is struck by on picking up Michael Alexander's book Jazz Age Jews is its startling cover photograph: a picture of Al Jolson in...

Chomsky on 9-11. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... 9-11. By NOAM CHOMSKY. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001. To give due credit, it's hard to think of another man who so robustly represents the failure of progressive thought in the United States as Noam Chomsky. Chomsky lives in a...

Film comment. (Reviews).
March 22, 2002... Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America. By ALAN MINTZ. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. If poetry after Auschwitz could be considered barbaric, according to the famous dictum of Theodor W. Adorno, then...