Judaism articles from September 2001

Judaism archives from September 2001

Suicide bombers, Authoritarian minds, and the Denial of others.
September 22, 2001... DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALE IN NEW York and Washington; not only adults but children too were deliberately targeted by suicide bombers in Israel. More Americans died in the attacks on New York and Washington than on any single day...

Erev Rosh Hashanah U'vchen: And therefore sanctify life.
September 22, 2001... "ON ROSH HASHANAH IT IS WRITTEN AND ON YOM Kippur it is sealed, who shall live and who shall die... who shall die by fire and who by water... who by violence and who by wild beast... who shall be tranquil, and who shall live in fear...."...

On turning sorrow into song.
September 22, 2001... I GREW UP IN A FAMILY OF VOICES. NOT BECAUSE I HAD an especially large family (I am one of three children) but because our house was full of languages, full of the melodies and mysteries of other countries and cultures. Whenever I answered the...

Jolson, Judy, and Jewish memory.
September 22, 2001... In memory of my mother Dorothy, who like many immigrants of her generation, crossed the rainbow bridge to America, and in New York, Miami, and Madison discovered her Emerald City. Mayerke My Son One blustery afternoon in the late...

Changing the Halakha.
September 22, 2001... LIKE MANY, I VIEW WITH ALARM VARIOUS TRENDS IN Jewish religious life which have become increasingly severe and strict during the last half-century. Oddly, many recent changes in Jewish Law emanate from the extreme right. If we who occupy the...

Why the Holocaust is unique.
September 22, 2001... IF THE HOLOCAUST WAS UNIQUE, FOR German Jews it was uniquely unique. Throughout Europe what was done to the Jews was done by an invading enemy, but for the Jews in Germany it was done by people they, so to speak, went to school with. This...

"Not Enough" vs. "Plenty": Which did Pius XII do?
September 22, 2001... THAT SUSAN ZUCCOTTI AND RONALD RYCHLAK--AMONG many others--have been quarreling about the role of Pius XII during the Holocaust does not necessarily mean that they disagree; more precisely, it doesn't mean that they disagree about what they...

False witness: The Irving-Lipstadt trial and the New Yorker.(analysis of article by Ian Buruma on lawsuit brought by David Irving against author Deborah Lipstadt)
September 22, 2001... DURING THE PAST YEAR AND A HALFJUDAISM HAS DEVOTED thousands of words to critical (and not so critical) evaluations of numerous books alleging that Jews "exploit" the Holocaust for their own nefarious ends. Whatever one may think of these...

Reading my Poetry in Hebrew translation.
September 22, 2001... WHILE A PROSE TRANSLATION MAY RECREATE THE original quite faithfully, the intricate nature of poetry makes a language change hazardous and the outcome often uneven. As translator for the University of Iowa Press's Modern Hebrew Poetry (1980) I...

Errata.
September 22, 2001... In "Trauma and Abstract Monotheism: Jewish Exile and Recovery in the Sixth Century B.C.E.," by David Aberbach (Spring 2001), Note 16 should read: Erna Furman, A Child's Parent Dies: Studies in Childhood Bereavement (New Haven & London: Yale...

The Jewish community and American public policy.
September 22, 2001... WHEN I STARTED WORKING FOR IT IN 1950, THE NETWORK of Jewish public affairs agencies was in the throes of transformation. The creation of a new institution within that network, and the reformulation of a mission statement were still directed to...

Repairing Tikkun Olam. (Current Theological Writing).
September 22, 2001... THE CAPTURE OF THE TALMUDIC-ZOHARIC NOTION OF Tikkun Olam (the correction or repair of the world) by liberal political circles is well-nigh complete. Few remember that the rabbis once meant by the doctrine not much more than fine tuning their...

Passing and other Paradoxes of Holocaust Survival. (Reviews).(Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum)(My Father's Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Teenager, 1938-1945)
September 22, 2001... Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum. By IRENE GRUNBAUM. Translated and edited by Katherine Morris. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. My Father's Testament: Memoir of a Jewish Teenager, 1938-1945. By...

Ana Pauker and the Jewish Communists. (Reviews).(Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist)
September 22, 2001... Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist. By ROBERT LEVY. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2001. A few months after the liberation of her country, Ana Pauker, the best known, and perhaps the most...

Soloveitchik on Family Relationships. (Reviews).(Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships)
September 22, 2001... Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships. By RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK edited by DAVID SHATZ and JOEL WOLOWELSKY. Toras HaRav Foundation, n.p., 2000. The book before us is Volume One of the MeOtzar HoRav Series: Selected Writings...

Restoring the Prominent Middle. (Reviews).(The Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities)
September 22, 2001... The Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities. By DANIEL J. ELAZAR and RELA MINTZ GEFFEN. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. Daniel Elazar and Rela Mintz Geffen argue that Conservative Judaism is in...

Are We One? (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel. By JEROLD AUERBACH. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2001. Ever since its establishment, Israel has been a source of Jewish anxiety as well as of Jewish hope. The...