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November 2005 Highlights

New Voices

 Steve Jacobson: The increasingly common innovations of young Jews in the   U.S. have highlighted the degree to which the integration of their American-ness and Jewish-ness is at the core of their Jewish expression. 
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 Stephen Hazan Arnoff: What would happen if the Jewish communities of the world placed dynamic, talented, highly trained, full-time artists at their cultural center?
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 Sarra Alpert: What would the Jewish world look like if synagogue missions were based not on movement doctrine but on the philosophical, religious, and cultural ideals of that specific community?
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 Joshua Gross: So many of our monuments address that we have survived but not why we have survived. Since the calamity of the Holocaust, we have focused so single-mindedly on Jewish survival that we have failed to collectively define exactly what surviving requires of us.
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 Sarah Tauber: In this new century, the voices that speak truthfully and honestly about a pervasive loss of spiritual orientation, and about the possibilities for recovering it as Jews, will be listened to carefully.
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 Koby Oppenheim: With so many talented young Jews publishing, deal making, and doctoring, why aren't they plotting our future course?
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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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"Writing is my way of fighting for ideological ground without losing my essential empathy for those with whom I disagree, or, in short, of accepting the inner contradiction of being without giving up on my moral spine." 

Etgar Keret "Lies, Yearnings, and other Strange Fruit" Sh'ma 11/05