Best Jewish writing 2003
By: Arthur Kurzweil, editor.
Contributors: Kurzweil, Arthur.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780787967710
Subjects: American literature -- Jewish authors.; American literature -- 21st century.; Judaism -- Literary collections.; Jews -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Table of contents: title: Israel. Letter to President George W. Bush, May 7, 2002 / Elie Wiesel; title: What everyone should know about the conflict / Joseph Adler; title: If a visitor from a far-away galaxy / Alan M. Dershowitz; title: Israelis and Palestinians: what went wrong?/ Amos Elon; title: Fictions embraced by an Israel at war / David Grossman; title: Letter from an anguished soul / David A. Harris; title: Torah, war and the "gentle heart" today: Israeli soldiers' refusal to serve in the occupation army / Arthur Waskow; title: Europe's unified voice and passion / Andrei S. Markovits. Current issues. Orthodox, feminist, and proud of it / Blu Greenberg; title: Stem cell research: what does Halachah say? / Yoel Jakobovits; title: Jesus who? / Amy-Jill Levine; title: Judaism and the ultimate punishment / Daniel Polish; title: Why only the Orthodox can avoid intermarriage / David Saks; title: Y marks the spot / William C. Speed; title: Drugs and Jewish spirituality: that was then, this is now / Lawrence Bush; title: King of the Jews / Jane Leavy. Religiouis education and practice. Who is an educated Jew? / Paula E. Hyman; title: Rabbinical education for the twenty-first century / Lewis D. Solomon; title: Oops! I shouldn't say this ... or should I? / Margaret Moers Wenig; title: Creating a moral legacy for our children / Susan Berrin; title: Hebrew vs. Yiddish, the worldwide rivalry / Norman Berdichevsky; title: The parent is the child's first teacher / Carol Diament; title: Ethical kashrut / Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin; title: Halacha: divine or human? / Gilbert S. Rosenthal; title: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt on listening / Peninnah Schram; title: Facing an uncertain future: what Jewish meditation teaches / Sheila Weinberg. Jewish spiritual thought. The tree of knowledge and the tree of life / Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz; title: A hundred blasts shatter the somber silence / Mordechai Gafni; title: Power and the open heart / Shefa Gold; title: Religion is not the answer / Arthur Hertzberg; title: The Temple of Amount / Eliezer Shore. Kabbalah. The heretic: the mythic passions of Gershom Scholem / Cynthia Ozick; title: So you want to learn Kaballah / Zalman Schachter-Shalomi; title: What I know from Kabbalah / Rodger Kamenetz; title: Safed, Israel: mystic echoes from the Middle Ages / Todd Pitock. The Holocaust. A force for life, not for anger / Irving Greenberg; title: Shoah business / Andrew Wallenstein; title: Hiding places / Daniel Asa Rose. 9/11. Forgive the terrorists? / Benjamin Blech; title: From a Kabbalist's diary: pensées on a post-9/11 universe / Bezalel Naor; title: A congregation of holy souls: relections on 9/11 one year later / Avi Weiss. Anti-Semitism. The new anti-Semitism / Phyllis Chesler; title: Letter from former New York mayor Ed Koch to Woody Allen / Edward I. Koch; title: Feeling alone, again: the growing unease among Germany's Jews / Alvin H. Rosenfeld. Poetry. Allen Ginsberg forgives Ezra Pound on behalf of the Jews / Rodger Kamenetz; title: Miriam's seders / Enid Dame; title: The late year / Marge Percy; title: Villanelle: is butter churned these days, is love denied? / Leo Haber; title: What the returning raven said / Leo Haber; title: Yiddish / I. Century; title: To dream in Hebrew / Leslie Cohen; title: Veined-garden / Valerie Wohlfeld. Fiction. Empty chairs / Talia Carner; title: Religion: goy / Herbert Gold; title: Mazal's day / Gloria Goldreich. Jewish humor. The wit and practicality of the Talmud / Ralph de Toledano; title: It is not a joke ... / Leo M. Abrami; title: Seinfeld / Lawrence J. Epstien.