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| November 2003 Highlights
Sh'ma is now accepting sermons for Living Words VI: Best
High Holiday Sermons of 5764. Send your drashot to: SBerrin@JFLmedia.com.
Deadline is December 1, 2003.
Fragile Diaspora Communities |
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Shimon Felix:
Heed the Words: Next Year in Jerusalem
Some communities have become museums, expending tremendous
amounts of money and energy maintaining a community that has lost
its reason to be.
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Sergio DellaPergola:
Jewish Population Trends in Israel and the Diaspora
International migration over the past 50 years
has reshaped the geographical map of world Jewry and fundamentally
changed the environments in which Jewish life develops.
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| Wladimir Struminski:
A Phoenix Over
Germany
In the coming years, some 10,000 people per
year are expected to make Germany their new home under the Jewish
refugee program. The influx has dramatically strengthened Jewish
life in Germany.
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Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews
Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking
on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture.
Reviewed
by Stephen J. Whitfield .
(New Haven: Yale University Press): 273 pp., $30.00.
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| For
Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle
A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to  address
the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals
for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer
for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach
Israel in synagogues and schools.:
Available now www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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| "Youth emigration poses the greatest challenge
to Jewish continuity." Professor Milton Shain
in his essay, "South African Jewry: A Glimpse
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