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Hot Rhetoric, Cool Analysis
| Books discussed in this article:
“Why Jews Should Not Be Liberals”-Larry F. Sternberg (Pelican)
“The Baptizing of America”-Rabbi James Rudin (Thunder’s Mouth Press)
“Party Lines”-Thomas E. Mann and Bruce Cain (Bro |
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A Personal Contact With Death - Aaron Looks At Books:
| Rituals transform those who participate. Our ancestors knew this. That’s why they shaped Judaism with rituals and ceremonies.
Analyzing the transforming power of ritual, cultural anthropologists explain that rituals respond to unpredic |
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“Born To Kvetch”-Michael Wex (St. Martin’s Press)
| Jon Fox provides the best definition of a stand-up comic. Someone who has the material to give completely different performances three shows a night.
“Somebody like a great novelist but in the form of a stand-up comedian,” says Fox. “ |
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All the News That’s Fit to Bury - Aaron Looks At Books:
| Before television and the internet, back in the 1940s when people got their news from newspapers, the New York Times was America’s most influential news organ. The paper was Jewish-owned and edited. And although the Times was the closest America had |
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“Running the World”-David Rothkopf (Public Affairs)
| Are the conspiracy theorists correct? Is there a tiny group altering the course of history and shaping the outcome of world economics? Certainly when it comes to US foreign policy, the power of George W. Bush is rather immense these days. It is no lo |
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Two of Our Greatest Writers - Aaron Looks At Books:
| A writer, like an illusionist, charms the audience’s attention away from the sleight of hand with attitude, presentation and chops.
Magic is all sleight of hand. The secret—what separates the great writer from the pack-- is in technique and p |
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Who We Are and What We Are - Aaron Looks At Books:
| Our identity and the measure of our lives have become increasingly problematic in this age of individuality. The “cultivation of individuality” has become an end in itself; so much so that the definition of freedom, for some, has become the ability t |
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Conspiracies Everywhere You Look - Aaron Looks At Books:
| Like a vampire, rising from the depths of a dark, subterranean, superstitious underworld, the Protocols keep surfacing.
One hundred years ago, the first edition of the book that came to be known as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was pu |
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Reb Zalman’s Vision of Judaism - Aaron Looks At Books:
| We are theotropic beings. Just as flowers and trees grow towards the sun (heliotropic), we grow towards God. Call it soul, spark of God or whatever. There is a part of us that seeks to awaken to the holy says Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. How we go |
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Three Passover Books - Aaron Looks At Books:
| The Passover Seder at my grandparent’s home was indeed “the Jewish ethnic equivalent of an American Thanksgiving dinner among family and friends” to coin a description by Rabbi Nathan Laufer. I remember matzo and wine on the table. But no blessings, |
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One Of the Greatest Sports Writers - Aaron Looks At Books:
| “I saw strong men weep this afternoon, expressionless umpires swallow hard, and emotions pump the hearts and glaze the eyes of 61,000 baseball fans in Yankee Stadium.”
The great Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich wrote that le |
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Paying the War Bill - Aaron Looks At Books:
| The war on terror costs. It costs the money we spend through our government. It costs indirectly through the cuts we make to federal, state and local budgets. And it costs our kids in the future who will have to pay off the debt we are piling up for |
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Biblical Women: A Traditional Read - Aaron Looks At Books:
| Torah scholarship has only recently opened up to women.
During the last three decades, women have gained entry to the rabbinate in the Conservative and Reform movements. As rabbis, teachers, and learners, Jewish women have increasingl |
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The Best Winter Reads - Aaron Looks At Books:
| It’s not yet winter here. But summer has loosened its grip. One can imagine winter’s approach and the pleasure of curling up against the night chill with a good book. With Chanukah approaching, add book titles or a gift certificate to your holiday “w |
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Writing A Holocaust Memoir
| The rules for writing a memoir are simple. Tell a good story. Don’t tell lies.
Cut to James Frey’s tearful confession on the “Oprah” show that he lied about parts of his memoir. It wasn’t the first time a writer landed in trouble for d |
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The Rav on Passover
| The Rav is, of course, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a giant of modern Orthodoxy in North America. Although he died in 1993, much of his thought remains in hand written form and on tapes. The material is becoming available to us for the first time th |
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The Call and Response of Kaddish
| Kaddish calls. There’s a death--a family member--and suddenly, you are called to respond, to stand in a minyan (prayer quorum of ten) to recite the Kaddish.
The prayer takes the form of call and response: with a call to enlarg |
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Two Conflicts: How We Got In, How To Get Out
| “The Secret Way To War”
Mark Danner
(New York Review Books)
When you’re up to your rear end in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original intention was the drain the swamps.
I’m constantl |
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On Torture #3 - Letting Torture In the Back Door
| Books discussed in this article:
The Abu Ghraib Investigations
Steven Strasser, editor (Public Affairs)
The Battle Of the Casbah
General Paul Aussaresses
(Enigma)
Truck of Fools
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The Spiritual Evil Arrayed Against God
| Why is there evil in this world? If God is one and perfectly good, then how do we account for so much evil in this life?
Sophisticated and ordinary minds have thought about this question. Bernard Bamberger, in his book, “Falle |
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Three Books About Israel
| Daniel Gordis
“Coming Together, Coming Apart”
(Wiley)
Daniel Gordis’ book “Coming Together, Coming Apart” (Wiley) opens with the muffled booms of Palestinian gunfire coming from Beit Jala to his Jerusalem neighbor |
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How the Territories Became Settlements
| “The Accidental Empire”
Gershom Gorenberg
(Times Books/Henry Holt)
As a result of Israeli military victory in the Six-Day War (June 1967), the territories of the West Bank, the Golan Heights and the Sinai |
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The Origins of Wahhabi Islam and Jihad
| Charles Allen
“God’s Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad”
(DaCapo)
Washington-area Muslims affiliated with Salafi (or Wahhabi) organizations feel beleaguered says a story in the Septe |
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Welcome To Post-Modern warfare
| Yoram Peli
“Generals in the Cabinet Room”
(United States Institute of Peace Press)
The war with Hezbollah barely ended before IDF Chief of Staff (CGS) Dan Halutz was at odds with his generals about the conduct of |
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Leading Off This Year's Jewish Book Fair Lineup
| Ruth Andrew Ellenson, editor
“The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt”
(Plume)
Judaism posits an ideal. And since we, as human beings, can never be ideal, we inevitably fall short. Guilt is the internal reprimand |
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Book Suggestions for Chanukah Gift Giving
| From the literary point of view, it is the worst of times. Total book reading in America is down and literary reading among the 18-34 demographic segment--that is, novels, plays, short stories and poetry—is precipitously declining.
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Reappraising Roosevelt and the Holocaust
| Robert N. Rosen
“Saving the Jews”
(Thunder’s Mouth)
Robert N. Rosen wanted his book to create controversy. He succeeded. Fifty-five historians from universities in the US, Canada and Israel signed a letter protest |
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Eavesdropping On A Conversation Among Evangelicals
| Tony Campolo
“Letters To a Young Evangelical”
(Basic Books)
The Apostle Paul wrote letters. Many of his letters were incorporated into the Christian Bible. Paul wrote to clarify ideology, to construct a “center of |
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The Subversive Siddur
| Jeremy Schonfield
“Undercurrents Of Jewish Prayer”
(Littman)
Why don’t we study the Siddur (prayer book) like we study Torah? Shouldn’t our liturgy--our pathway to God--demand intensive study and deep understandin |
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Because They Hate, Should We?
| Brigitte Gabriel
“Because They Hate”
(St. Martin’s Press)
Lebanese Christians have fallen. Now matter how the future of Lebanon plays out, Christians will be a numerical minority with reduced power and poss |
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Good and Evil In the Holocaust
| Books discussed in this article:
Carmen Callil-Bad Faith (Knopf)
Ben-Zion Gold-The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust (University of Nebraska Press)
Roberta Kremer-Broken Threads (Palgrave Macmillan)
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Answers To the Heart's and Mind's Eternal Questions
| It’s the first date between the leading characters in Rabbi Lawrence Kushner’s new novel “Kabbalah: A Love Story” (Morgan Road Books). Seated in a café, astronomer Dr. Isabel Benveniste asks Rabbi Kalman Stern, “Why did you become a rabbi?”
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Baseball's Important Numbers
| “Opinions don’t get you closer to the truth”, says Jonah Keri in the preface to “Baseball Between the Numbers”.
Everyone’s got opinions. This being the start of the 2007 baseball season, sports radio station hosts, |
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Jews In the South
| Books discussed in this article:
Rabbi Henry Cohen II
“Kindler of Souls”
(University of Texas Press)
Eli N. Evans
“The Provincials”
(University of North Carolina Press)
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Three Questions Christians Ask
| San Antonio’s Temple Beth-El Rabbi Emeritus Samuel M. Stahl addresses many audiences in churches and Christian colleges. There are always three questions his non-Jewish audiences ask. Why don’t Jews believe in an afterlife? Why don’t Jews believe in |
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Recent Fiction
| “The Attack”
Yasmina Khadra
(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
Israeli Arab Dr. Amin Jaafari has completed eight grueling hours in the Ichalov operating room, repairing the victims of a Tel Aviv suicide bomber. Sho |
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If Life Is a Test, Are We Passing?
| Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
“Life Is A Test”
(Shaar Press)
During this year’s Seder, a friend opened lively discussion when she voiced her objection to the text of the Kadesh prayer. “God who has chosen us from all |
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Summer Reading For Minds Not On Vacation
| Books are dangerous. Books can change your mind. They can challenge your prejudices and your perceptions. To be a people of the book means inhaling a writer’s consciousness and experience. It means being in dialogue with the text.
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Young and Ready to Go to Work or War
| Daniel Brook
“The Trap”
Times Books
Selling out. In the 1960s, that meant taking any job with regular hours and a steady paycheck. In the 1980s, it meant taking a job for big bucks. Today it means taking a job wit |
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Charges of Deicide
| Jeremy Cohen
“Christ Killers”
(Oxford)
Who killed Jesus? Historically, we don’t have any hard evidence as to who did it and why his execution occurred. Facts don’t matter. Within 40 years of his death, Jews got th |
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Zionism and Its Discontents
| There’s little new about anti-Zionism. As far back as 1956, the anti-Zionist British historian Arnold Toynbee attacked Israel as “the vile example of that hyper-nationalist obduracy which stands in the way of world culture”. In 1975, the United Natio |
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Aiming At the Infidels
| Lee Harris
“The Suicide Of Reason”
(Basic Books)
That inevitable crisis. A protagonist is forced to make an immediate decision and take action. It’s the turning point in any novel or script.
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Doctors and Patients Examine Each Other
| My father fell in his garage. Fortunately it happened about 3 in the afternoon on a Saturday and the garage door was up. A neighbor noticed him on the floor and phoned me.
I ran over to his house, just down the stre |
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Michael Chabon To Read in Houston
| “These are strange times to be a Jew,” says the Zamenhof Hotel manager, opening Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” (Harper Collins). Reversion approaches. The Federal District of Sitka, home to more than two million Jews since the Holoc |
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The Transformation of Iran
| It’s a rough time to be an Iran-lover. We’re far from the heady days of 1997 and Mohammad Khatami’s election to Iran’s presidency—a time when dialogue with the West, political reform in Iran and even reconciliation with the United States s |
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The Jewish Relationship To Power
| “The loss of Jewish sovereignty was the defining political event in the life of the Jewish people,” writes Ruth Wisse in the opening of her new book “Jews and Power”. More than the Holocaust, more than any other event, the Roman leveling of Jerusalem |
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Spy Novelist Daniel Silva Opens Book Fair
| Russians made good villains. Arabs make even better ones.
In the world of the spy novel, the classic Russian bad guy was a ruthless Soviet espionage agent motivated by Cold War ideology. Daniel Silva creates the classic Arab v |
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US Diplomacy In Trouble
| A rare window opened into contemporary US diplomacy with media coverage of a recent US State Department public meeting. At an October 31 town hall meeting, diplomats publicly criticized fundamental aspects of American policies in Iraq. US Foreign Ser |
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Just Like Us, Only Less So
| Jared Cohen
“Children Of Jihad”
(Gotham Books)
The premise: a 25-year-old Jewish Rhodes Scholar journeys to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran to interview young Arabs. He discovers the under-30 Arab youth culture is f |
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I'm OK--You're Not
| I’m an authentic Jew. You are not. My practices are really Jewish. Yours are not.
Jewish identity often comes down to this basic contest, especially when one looks at American Jews. In the largest and most powerful Diaspora com |
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Back In the USSR
| Historian Orlando Figes’ “The Whisperers” (Metropolitan Books) is about private life in Stalin’s Russia. There was no private life in Stalin’s Russia.
Prior to the 1917 Revolution, Communists saw the creation of a new type of |
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It's Still the Economy
| “Untethered market forces lead to bad things. You simply can’t run an economy as complicated as ours on ideology alone,” warned the Economic Policy Institute’s Jared Bernstein recently. Yet for the past eight years, the US economy has been directed b |
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Jewish High Concept Books
| Originating in Hollywood, the term “high concept” refers to a concise film idea that can easily be understood by all. For example: “It’s doomsday. A giant asteroid is about to crash into the planet Earth.” The film, of course, is “Armageddon”. |
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Will The Poor Always Be With Us?
| Ninety-four percent of the world’s income goes to 40% of the world’s population. The other 60% of our human family lives on 6 percent. The bottom billion people are falling apart. They live in dirt poor nations on one dollar a day or less, trapped in |
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Forget The middle East Peace Process
| Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky
“Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East”
(United States Institute of Peace)
In 1991, the U.S. Institute of Peace published “Making Peace Amon |
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Race, Wright and Passover
| The Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy won’t go away. Too many people have a vested interest in connecting Senator Barack Obama to intemperate comments made by his former pastor.
In Sen. Obama’s March 18 speech on race, the pres |
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- Preparing For the Seder
| One of the most important things an actor does to prepare for a part is script analysis. A script can be a powerful and limitless resource for creativity, passion and transformation. But those qualities are difficult to bring about without first anal |
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What Were the Temple Scribes Writing?
| Karel Van Der Toorn
“Scribal Culture”
(Harvard University Press)
Pre-Talmudic Judaism was an oral culture. The majority of “The People of the Book” were non-literate. Reading and writing was restricted to a profes |
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Who Is the Real Islamic Enemy?
| Olivier Roy
“The Politics of Chaos In the Middle East”
(Columbia)
When it comes to Middle Eastern politics, academic and consultant to the French Foreign Ministry Olivier Roy might be described as a political real |
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The Arab Center and Its Enemies
| There’s a bulls eye painted on Marwan Muasher’s back. Muasher is the former Jordanian Foreign Minister and the first ambassador to Israel. He’s a moderate Arab politician.
In his book, “The Arab Center”, he lays out the case f |
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The Situation Now and Back Then
| Iran threatens to wipe Israel off the map as it continues its nuclear program. Hezbollah poises an eyelash away from taking over Lebanon. Hamas lobs rockets ceaselessly into Israel. In Europe, passivity and a concern for trade and stability means eve |
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In The Battle of Ideas Against Islamic Radicalism
| Let’s say that, at its core, you have a sacred text that is tribal and exalts its tribe to convert others. And let’s say this sacred text is understood in none but a literal sense as the will of God. And further, let’s say the believers in this sacre |
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The Downwardly Mobile Generation
| No health care. Maxxed out plastic. Huge student loans. Rental apartment. Nothing to call your own. Welcome young’uns to the new middle class.
A generation ago, middle class status meant you could expect to own a home, take a v |
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The Wedge of Untruth
| One of the basic tenants of American journalism is the principle of objectivity: the idea of letting the opposites clash and watching as the stronger portions of each emerges. It’s the “We report, you decide” paradigm. But what happens to |
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A Legal System That Doesn't Promise Certainty
| Elliot Dorff
For The Love of God and People
(Jewish Publication Society)
Why guide one’s life by Halakhah or Jewish law? Fear of punishment and hope for reward are motivators to obey many legal systems. The fear o |
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A Yiddish Masterpiece Appears in Translation
| Der Nister
“The Family Mashber”
(New York Review Books)
Once upon a time, at least before the birth of Literary Theory, novelists understood their work in an almost messianic light. That is to say they saw themsel |
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A Realist Takes On Utopian Politics
| John Gray
Black Mass
(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
Does history have an underlying plot? Nonsense, says John Gray.
“Seeing one’s life as an episode in a universal narrative is a fanta |
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Books In Brief
| Jonathan Sarna
A Time To Every Purpose
(Basic Books)
The more one experiences Judaism, the more one appreciates what Judaism is. Thus Judaism is a way of life, of breathing, of making time and space sacred.
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Figuring Out the Endgame In Iraq
| Linda Robinson
Tell Me How This Ends
(Public Affairs)
“When you’re up to your rear end in alligators” goes the folk wit, “it’s hard to remember that your initial goal was to drain the swamp.” Iraq is alligators all around |
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It's Fun to Read About Politics
| Royce Flippin, Editor
“Best American Political Writing 2008”
(Public Affairs)
Politics is about power: who has it, who wants it and what one does with it. But the reason it’s fun to read about politics is because |
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Jews and Comic Books, Oy What A Match!
| Comic books were the basement floor in the Hall of Low Culture. But in the late 1930s and early 40s, the comic book industry was easy to get into. Centered in New York City, many of the comic book publishers were Jewish-owned. Although the newspaper, |
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Asking Questions About the Meaning of the Holocaust
| A short time ago, I received my Chabad Jewish Art Calendar for 5769. Last year, I sought to find the date that Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) fell on. So I consulted my Chabad calendar. But for some reason, I couldn’t find it on any day in t |
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A Plan to Prevent Future Mass Atrocities
| Call it genocide. Call it ethnic cleansing. The phenomenon is as old as the Assyrian empire: the intent to kill or dispose of an out-group and empty the land of its people and their goods.
Some scholars argue that modern mass atrociti |
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Thinking In Hebrew
| Ilan Stavans
“Resurrecting Hebrew”
(Schocken)
“Losing one’s Hebrew might be a synonym for losing one’s soul,” says a friend of author Ilan Stavans in his new book, “Resurrecting Hebrew”.
Stavans is the per |
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How Obama Made It To the White House
| Evan Thomas
“A Long Time Coming”
(Public Affairs)
Early on, Barak Obama saw the Conservative tide in America was turning. He understood that many citizens were sick of politics as usual and yearned for more than r |
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Books In Brief
| Sholem Aleichem
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son
(Penguin Classics)
February is Sholem Aleichem Month, celebrating the Yiddish author’s 150th birthday. What better time than the present to read--or re-read--tw |
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Rejecting Pig's Brains Soup and Other Literary Dishes
| When Houstonian Gail Greenberg finished her children’s book, “No Pig’s Brain Soup, Please!” in 2003, she entered it into a national children’s picture book contest. The book finished second in the contest.
Then Greenberg tried to get |
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The Rav's Take On the Great Search
| Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, commonly known as “The Rav”, occupies one of the most important places in 20th century Jewish thought, particularly in the Orthodox community. The arrival of the English translation of his book-length essay “U’Vikkashtem |
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The Memoir of a Woman in Orthodoxy
| If Torah is truth and sustenance, then why has Torah study traditionally only been open to males? Ilana Blumberg, graduate of an Orthodox day school, poses this question in her memoir “Houses of Study: A Jewish woman Among Books” (Bison/University of |
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Wasn't That A Time?
| Tony Michels
A Fire In Their Hearts
(Harvard University Press)
American Jewish History Associate Professor Tony Michels has a bone to pick with other Jewish historians. Why have they been indifferent to the Jewish |
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How Was The Second Temple Really Destroyed?
| The Talmud tersely remarks that the Second Temple was destroyed “because of sinat hinam”; that is, groundless hatred or hatred without a cause. The destruction of the Temple and the fall of Jerusalem was surely an event in Jewish history as catastrop |
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Picturing Eve After the Expulsion
| Elissa Elliott
“Eve: A Novel of the First Woman”
(Delacorte)
“Remembrance is holy. Blame is not.” Thus begins Eve’s story to Naava, one of her daughters. Yes, it’s THAT Eve in Elissa Elliott’s “Eve: A Novel of the First W |
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Changing Jesus
| Susannah Heschel
“The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany”
(Princeton)
Jesus was a Jew. And you can’t change that.
However, a significant number of German Protestant th |
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The Future of Orthodox Judaism Rooted In Its History
| In 1985, to celebrate their 20th anniversary, the Orthodox gadfly David Singer and his wife flew to Club Med in the Dominican Republic. Singer took care not to violate any kashrut laws, dining on fruit cups and vegetable platters. He recited his pray |
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Six Constant Mitzvot
| Rabbi Yitzchak Berkowitz
“The 6 Constant Mitzvos”
Based On A Series of Lectures
(ArtScroll)
Although Jews have been given 613 mitzvot as a religious blueprint, it’s almost humanly impossible to perform all |
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Writing About Music
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. That statement, variously attributed to Martin Mull, Charles Mingus, Elvis Costello and others, suggests something about music is so elusive that it cannot be translated into words.
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Thinking American
| Seth Lipsky
“The Citizen’s Constitution”
(Basic Books)
William Goetzmann
“Beyond the Revolution”
(Basic Books)
In a photograph taken at a recent “Tea Party” at Houston’s Sam Houston Ra |
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Free Trade and Freedom
| Vali Nasr
“Forces Of Fortune”
(Free Press)
Fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East feeds from resentment. That’s not hard to diagnose. However, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr locates the pathology a |
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An Uneasy Slide Downward
| Debt. A national debt of almost $11 trillion that will yoke future generations. Private debt that has the average American family paying 20% of its income to service debt payments. Debt for the costs of a college education that increased 50% between |
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How History Preserved What Was Lost In Poland
| In 1942, a team of professional and amateur historians in Warsaw prepared for the worst. Having a clear understanding the Nazis destined them for total annihilation, this team buried the documentation of their reduced lives underneath the Warsaw Ghet |
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At the Gateway To Heaven
| The greatest tragedy in the history of the Jewish people was the destruction of the Temple.
We mourn the magnitude of the destruction of the Holocaust because of its proximately in time and because it represents the complete breakdown |
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Worlds Created Out of Letters
| Religion is complex, full of a rich diversity of thought, imagination and inspiration. To reduce such complexity down to a single concrete impulse or a single interpretation sheds no light on things divine. It is a failure of imagination. It merely r |
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Louis Brandeis: What A Life!
| Melvin I. Urofsky
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
(Pantheon)
Compared to Louis Brandeis, most contemporary Jewish leaders in the United States appear models of shrunken stature and specialized abilities. Brandeis excell |
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How A Single State Solution Works In the Middle East
| The most significant long-range consequence of the U.S. war in Iraq is the great shift of power from the Sunni to the Shi’ite community. The March 7 Iraqi parliamentary election confirmed Shi’ite dominance and Sunni eclipse.
In the wak |
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What the New Health Law Really Means
| Although President Obama signed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, the battle to overhaul our health care system is far from over. At least 12 attorney generals—all Republicans—have filed suits to block the new legis |
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The Helen Thomas Affair
| Hearst News Service columnist Helen Thomas’ offhanded comments to a videotaping Rabbi David Nesenoff that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home to Poland, Germany or the United States” certainly got our attention. Three days af |
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When the Messiah Didn't Come
| Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman
“The Rebbe”
(Princeton)
Anyone who considers telling the story of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, necessarily brings a point of view to the subject. |
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Given The Opportunity To Do Evil, Many Will Do So
| Consider the modern nation whose state policy is to drive out, cleanse or exterminate an ethnic minority living within its borders. How does a state go about implementing this policy?
In the case of Nazi Germany, Adolph Eichmann and hi |
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Aharon Appelfeld: Waiting Out the Holocaust In A Brothel
| Immediately after World War II, Theodor Adorno declared, “No poem could be written after Auschwitz”. He was saying that art--at least traditional forms of art--appeared to have no valid aesthetic response to the Holocaust.
Adorno was i |
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