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June 2002 Highlights

Jewish People's Fund:

 Singer:
Transparency, Truth, and Restitution

Holocaust survivors are not the only persons charged with making decisions for the Jewish people about how to use monies that will not be needed after they die

 Eva Fogelman:
Our Task: To Dignify the Lives of Survivors

Why are we talking about excess riches when there is no money to pay for survivors' basic necessities like hearing aids, medication, dentures, and transportation?

 Michael Berenbaum:
Let Us Not Fight Over the Yerushah

While I endorse the concept of a Jewish People's Fund that Singer proposes, I fear we have not yet discharged the responsibilities that we have toward the survivors that are still with us.

 David Schaecter:
Use Restituted Funds for Urgent Survivors' Needs

There are enormous and unacceptable shortfalls in social service funding, including long-term in-home health care that is essential to the dignity and health of survivors.

 Marcella:
Sharing Knowledge: A Key to Our Survival

Today's solution is not the solution for tomorrow. It is simply part of tomorrow's foundation.

 Visions:
Visions for a Jewish People's Fund

Sh'ma queried many people for innovative and creative ways to allocate a Jewish People's Fund. You can read those visions and add your own.

 Book Reviews

Steven T. Rosenthal's Irreconciliable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel offers a depressing overview of this dysfunctional relationship. - Review by Gil Troy

 Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews

 NiSh'ma

 

Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Toward Traditional Rabbinic Ordination by Haviva Ner-David

Life on the FringesNew from Jewish Family & Life!, the parent organization of Sh'ma: Life on the Fringes, a moving memoir and halakhic commentary by a young Jewish feminist who is poised to become the first female Orthodox rabbi. The author, Haviva Ner-David, explores contemporary approaches to Jewish law and life, women's involvement in ritual and study, the challenges of parenting, gender and our Jewish journeys, and more ...

Click on the cover to order.


Living Words: Best High Holiday Sermons of 5760/1999
Living Words: The Best High Holiday Sermons of 5760 is a collection of sermons filled with words of wisdom, pleas for justice, tales of journeys and text-analyses that will inspire and enrich your soul as you ponder new teachings for the High Holidays. Selected by a panel of compassionate and thoughtful judges, these sermons are diverse and challenging, seeking to engage those individuals striving for both knowledge and spiritual growth.

For Sale: A New Source Book on the Jewish Ethics of Addressing Terrorism

This publication is designed to help individuals and families use Jewish sources and resources to address the aftermath of the terrorist attack in NY and Washington. The book asks: How do we do fight terrorism and preserve our society's moral fiber? How do we maintain our personal, communal and religious ethics and sense of morality in the face of a needed war on terrorism? What are the boundaries for addressing terrorism? What is the ethical framework we employ? :

Jewish Ethics and Fighting Terrorism will include three distinct sections:
1. Helping families and educators with strategies to address this difficult terrain with their children.
2. Several High Holiday Sermons that offer words of wisdom, inspiration, comfort, and insight into how an American Jewish community responds to terrorism.
3. An expanded special issue of Sh'ma that addressed these questions with essays from  Rabbi Saul Berman, Director of Edah, a voice of Modern Orthodoxy
Dr. Marc Gopin, author of Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking and Holy War, Holy Peace
Dr. Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam at HUC-JIR in LA and author of Jihad: THe Origin of Holy War in Islam.
Dr. Dov Zakheim, Undersecretary of Defence, Controller
Dr. Vanessa Ochs, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, National Director of Inter-religious Affairs at the American Jewish Committee, former Chief Rabbi of the American Armed Services
Dr. Dawn Rose, former director of the Ethics Center at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical School and Rabbi of Temple of Universal Judaism in NYC.
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, President of Jewish Life Network

Available February, 2002. $25.00 includes postage and handling. To order, contact stephenc@JFLmedia.com.



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Quote of
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In the 1990s, the World Jewish, in concert with other organizations, secured restitution to the Jewish people for property loss and persecution. The sum could amount to billions of dollars. Does it belong to the Jewish peoplw as a whole or to Holocaust survivors and their heirs?