Hidden in a Holiday
Jan R. Uhrbach
A verse from Psalm 81 is featured prominently in the Rosh Hashanah evening service: Tiku bahodesh shofar, bakeseh l’yom chageinu, “Sound the shofar on the new moon, in the time appointed for our festival day.” Read More...
Mirrors and Waves J.J. Goldberg
PRACTICING THE CRAFT of journalism — the pure, old-fashioned news-gathering kind — is a lonely way of life. Jewish journalism is doubly so, or tenfold. If the media seem less compelling than they should be or used to be, that’s the biggest reason.Read
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Vision Byte Books
by Paula Hyman
ENCYCLOPEDIAS HAVE existed for more than 2,000 years in order to make available
a summary of extant knowledge. The Encyclopedia Britannica, the largest and oldest
in the English language, was first published in 1768 and has been followed by
many competitors. Jews came relatively late to the production of encyclopedias..... Read
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How to Connect Two Nouns
by Deborah Dash Moore
SIXTY YEARS AGO, as World War II raged and Nazi Germany did its best
to murder the remaining remnant of European Jews, Mordecai Kaplan, radical
thinker, rebellious
Orthodox rabbi, and founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, articulated what
he considered vital premises for Judaism to flourish in America. He suggested
new
forms of oneness that transcended national boundaries, encouraging Jews to
identify not only with the people Israel but also the land, Hebrew language,
and culture.... Read
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Re-imagining a Mitzvah Practice
by Rachel Cowan
The Me'or Eynaim (Rabbi Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl), a Hasidic master who lived in the Ukraine from 1730 - 1797, taught: Commandment, after all is called mitzvah because it joins together (mitzvah/ tzavtah ) the part of God that dwells within the person with the infinite God beyond.... Read More...
Hope, Values, and the Jewish Future by Yosef I. Abramowitz
A nearly full moon shimmers, eerily lighting the tombs of David and Paula Ben Gurion; it is 1:30 a.m. in Sde Boker. I raise my flimsy Israeli plastic cup in a silent toast, inhale the biblical air, and sip the remaining Johnny Walker. Read More...
Restructuring the Partnership
by Judith Stern Peck
THE MISSION, governance, and work of today’s Jewish institutions and leadership should reflect a global sensitivity and diversity based on Jewish values that have sustained us over thousands of years: Read
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Scholarship, Literature and the Imagination
by Steven J. Zipperstein
THE TERM “ACADEMIC PROSE,” much like those stock phrases used, to good effect, by Borsht Belt comedians of the past, is cast about to inspire a good, hearty laugh at something that is both impenetrable and irrelevant.
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