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By Steven Schnur
It's the children, at first, that inspire awe, the infants now walking, the toddlers talking, the grade schoolers freshly combed and pressed, the high schoolers immense, the college students all but unrecognizable in their newfound sophistication. The brief span of twelve months has metamorphosed them all. They enter the sanctuary this Rosh Hashanah morning with an eye to audience and reunion, conscious, as at few other times, of their own growth and maturity, the oldest children flanking their parents with an air
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TONGUE TIED
By Leslie Snow
I long for the days when I had no problem using my sharp tongue to let everyone know I was offended.
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ANGRY
By Lawrence D. Gibson
I was on my way up the company ranks--that is, until they told me I couldn't hire Ms. Kline.
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DEFENDER
By Rebecca Snyder
I am glad to say
that I feel I have been
a loud and proud voice
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PRIDE & PREJUDICE
A discussion with Professor Sander L. Gilman on how to know when someone is engaging in antisemitism, responding to a remark...
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CONFRONTATION ON CAMPUS
By Josh Hamerman
How Jewish students are counteracting anti-Zionist and antisemitic factions on
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THE STORY IS
NOT OURS
By Harold M. Schulweis
Ignorant of our sacred
story, we err in seeing
ourselves through
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DISCUSSION GUIDE
By Alan Bennett
In this discussion guide
to "Navigating Antisemitic Encounters," Bennett
offers issue discussions, questions to ponder, and additional resources.
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QUIZ YOURSELF
By Rachel Ament
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How Jews
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By Rose
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By Sue Fishkoff
Are the smart, articulate young men and women who are creating the new edgy Jewish culture rebel outcasts or future Jewish leaders? What it takes to turn Gen X'ers on to Judaism.
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COOKING?:
A Savory Sukkot
By Tina
Wasserman
Known in the Torah as ha hag (the festival), Sukkot represents the last of the three harvest festivals in the Jewish calendar (Pesach and Shavuot are the others). The holiday occurs five days after Yom Kippur, the same time of year our ancestors made an annual pilgrimage to the Temple in ...Full text |
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JEWISH BOOKS
Taking Stock
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As a graduate student thirty years ago, Jonathan Sarna recalls, a Jewish scholar tried to dissuade him from studying American Jewish history. "I'll tell you all that you need to know about American Jewish history," he railed. "The Jews came to America, they abandoned their faith, they began to live like goyim, and after a generation or two they intermarried and disappeared. All the rest is commentary." Fortunately, Sarna, today a leading authority on American Jewish history at Brandeis University,
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The story of a storyteller who loses his voice sounds like the theme of a Hasidic tale or Zen parable--but this is the true story of Joel Ben Izzy, a professional storyteller in his mid-thirties whose vocal chords become paralyzed during surgery for thyroid cancer. Faced with the loss of his voice and livelihood, he sinks into depression, as do his wife and young children, who also grieve his sudden muteness.
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