Peace Talk
Jewish Journal
March 19, 1998
Beit Shalom is a newly minted coalition of 16American Jewish groups \”dedicated to the advancement of peace andreligious pluralism in Israel.\”
Category
March 19, 1998
Torah Portion
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
March 19, 1998
Context is everything. Certainly, this must besaid concerning the curious opening of this week\’s Torah portion. Forthe portion opens with a command that has been issued many timesbefore: the command to observe the seventh day as a day of rest.
Israeli Vice
Eric Silver
March 19, 1998
The young Lithuanian woman in the prison libraryhas the narrow chest, hunched shoulders and wary eyes of someone whohas known poverty and is not sure where the next blow is coming from.
Revisionist TV
Eric Silver
March 19, 1998
After 50 years of evasion, soft sell andhalf-truths, Israelis are coming to terms with the darker side oftheir own history.
‘Volpone’ for the
Jewish Journal
March 19, 1998
Shakespeare,\” said Ben Jonson, \”was not for an agebut for all time.\” But Jonson himself is, in many ways, more durableand pertinent.
Letters
Jewish Journal
March 19, 1998
Marlene Adler Marks is dead wrong. Monica Lewinskyis not the\”every daughter\” she proposes (\”The Daughter,\” Jan. 30). Monica\’sfamily, mercifully is nothing like our own.
The Divorce Force
Jewish Journal
March 19, 1998
Gangs of masked, Yiddish-speaking thugs in Brooklyn have been abducting Orthodox Jewish men and beating them savagely to force them into granting their wives a religious divorce,or get, according to several men who say they were victims of such assaults.The beatings allegedly were ordered by an Orthodox rabbinical court.\n
The Ashes of Memory
William Yelles
March 19, 1998
In \”Raising the Ashes,\” O\’Keefe has crafted a filmabout healing and rebirth unlike any other.
Dear Deborah
Deborah Berger
March 19, 1998
I never wanted or expected to be financiallysupported by a man, but I now have a beautiful 9-week-old daughter,and my heart hurts when I think about returning to my full-time job.
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