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Menorah Review (No. 82, Winter/Spring, 2015) Jan 2015

Menorah Review (No. 82, Winter/Spring, 2015)

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Books in Brief -- Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads? -- Franz and Edith Rosenzweig: Hero and Heroine -- Have You Heard This One? -- Judaism in Israel -- Moreshet: Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides -- My Friend and I -- They Will Revere His Glory in the East (Isaiah 59:19) -- Zachor


Menorah Review (No. 83, Summer/Fall, 2015) Jan 2015

Menorah Review (No. 83, Summer/Fall, 2015)

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L’hitraot... -- A Model of Courage -- Books in Brief -- Compassion and Truth Meet (Psalm 85.11) -- Four Poems -- From the Classics -- Judaism and a Heliocentric Universe -- Two Essays by Peter Haas -- Zachor


Menorah Review (No. 81, Summer/Fall, 2014) Jan 2014

Menorah Review (No. 81, Summer/Fall, 2014)

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Books in Brief: New and Notable -- candelabra gold -- Education: Yeshivah style -- Moreshet: From the Sources -- Mysteries of the Books of Job: From Elihu to Elie Wiesel -- Two Nations Are In Your Womb (Gen 25:23) -- When Rhetoric Dominates The Message -- Zachor


Menorah Review (No. 80, Winter.Spring, 2014) Jan 2014

Menorah Review (No. 80, Winter.Spring, 2014)

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Author's Reflections on Politics in the Bible -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Masada -- Nazism and Politics -- night trains -- Salvation Through Transgression -- Shoah: The "First" Day -- The "Jewish" World of Herbert Hoover


Menorah Review (No. 78, Winter/Spring, 2013) Jan 2013

Menorah Review (No. 78, Winter/Spring, 2013)

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After the Shoah: Blackmail, Vengeance, and the Death of the Future -- Assessing Jewish Worship in the United States -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Claude Lanzmann's Shoah Revisited -- Israel's Leaders An Inside View -- Mission in the Diaspora: Simon Dubnov's Jewish Autonomism -- Saul And David -- The Rambam Project: Code, Marshal, Hegemony, Sanctity Of Life And Gender in the Mishneh Torah -- Valuing Cultural Differences


Menorah Review (No. 79, Summer/Fall, 2013) Jan 2013

Menorah Review (No. 79, Summer/Fall, 2013)

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Authorities Without Power: The Jewish Council of Vienna During the Holocaust -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Cry and Wail: Jewish Suffering in Documents From Ukraine, 1918-1921 -- Moreshet: From the Sources -- Speaking of the Law -- The Jewish "Success" Story? -- The Power of the Word -- Two Poems by Richard Sherwin -- Unearthing Buried Treasures: Reading Leah Goldberg in Translation


Menorah Review (No. 76, Winter/Spring, 2012) Jan 2012

Menorah Review (No. 76, Winter/Spring, 2012)

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A Neo-Zionist Vison -- An Idiosyncratic Journey to God -- An Open Letter to Tarek Fatah -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Changing the Course of a River -- Leaves without Trees -- Moreshet: From the Classics - The Ethical Will of Eleazar of Mayence -- Zachor: John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration


Menorah Review (No. 77, Summer/Fall, 2012) Jan 2012

Menorah Review (No. 77, Summer/Fall, 2012)

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A Golden Poet of Spain's Golden Age -- Beyond the Second Coming -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Cantorial Challenges -- Jewishness in the World: A Chabad Definition -- Moreshet - From the Classics: A 1797 Wedding -- Painful Presence: Jews in Russian Music -- Zachor: Sicut Judaeis ("And Thus to the Jews")


Menorah Review (No. 74, Winter/Spring, 2011) Jan 2011

Menorah Review (No. 74, Winter/Spring, 2011)

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A Novelist's View of Nineteenth Century Judaism -- An Evolutionary, Nonzero Approach to the Abrahamic Traditions -- Author's reflections -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Moreshet: From the Classics -- Post-Zionism... Post-Holocaust -- The Jewish Experience in 17th century Barbados -- Two Poems -- Zachor: From the Records of the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-6


Menorah Review (No. 75, Summer/Fall, 2011) Jan 2011

Menorah Review (No. 75, Summer/Fall, 2011)

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Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Hasidic Women: Boundaries and Empowerment -- Jews in the Shaping of Modern Capitalism -- Moreshet: From The Classics -- New Approaches to Gender and Feminism: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives -- Reckoning with Rival Religions -- Two Poems -- Zachor: An Appeal for the Ransom of the Captives


Menorah Review (No. 72, Winter/Spring, 2010) Jan 2010

Menorah Review (No. 72, Winter/Spring, 2010)

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A Philosopher Rediscovers His Jewish Roots -- An Extraordinary Rabbinic Life -- An Interpretation of Isiah 6.8-10 -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Moreshet: From the Classics -- The Noah Affair -- Who Owns and Who is Responsible for a Soul?


Menorah Review (No. 73, Summer/Fall, 2010) Jan 2010

Menorah Review (No. 73, Summer/Fall, 2010)

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An Interpretation of the Valley of Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14) -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Hebrew: A World of Its Own -- How an Educated Elite May Have Shaped the Bible -- Moreshet: From the Classics -- Saul Bellow to Cynthia Ozick on the Holocaust -- Speaking Otherwise: Form and Meaning in the Book of Ruth -- Two Poems


Menorah Review (No. 70, Winter/Spring, 2009) Jan 2009

Menorah Review (No. 70, Winter/Spring, 2009)

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A Poem by Richard E. Sherwin -- Believing Christian... Agnostic Believer -- From the Classics -- New and Notable Books -- Oy Vey Is Mir -- The Ancient Grudge: The Merchant of Venice and Shylock's Christian Problem


Menorah Review (No. 71, Summer/Fall, 2009) Jan 2009

Menorah Review (No. 71, Summer/Fall, 2009)

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Abraham: A Seminal Personality -- Author's Reflections -- Books in Brief: New and Notable -- Soviet History as it Unfolds -- The Talmud Revisited: Tragedy and "The Oven of Aknai" -- Tourist Heaven -- Traduttore, Traditore?


Menorah Review (No. 69, Summer/Fall, 2008) Jan 2008

Menorah Review (No. 69, Summer/Fall, 2008)

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Peter Bergson's Mission Impossible -- Rabbinical Dynamics in the Babylonian Talmud -- The Aesthetic Grit of a Yiddish Prose Master Finds Translation -- The Ancient Grudge: The Merchant of Venice and Shylock's Christian Problem -- Two Poems


Menorah Review (No. 68, Winter/Spring, 2008) Jan 2008

Menorah Review (No. 68, Winter/Spring, 2008)

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A Response to Stephen Windmueller's Essay -- Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide: Similarities and Differences -- On Biblical Personality -- Telling Tales -- Templ(Ar)Ing -- The Ancient Grudge: The Merchant of Venice and Shylock's Christian Problem -- The Spiritual Path of Kabbalah -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 67, Summer/Fall, 2007) Jan 2007

Menorah Review (No. 67, Summer/Fall, 2007)

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A Poem by Richard E. Sherwin -- Camp Sisters: Women and the Holocaust -- From the Feminist's Corner -- Modern History and Modern Letters -- The Roots of Anti-Semitism -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007) Jan 2007

Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007)

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A Collection by MR's Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of Antisemitism


Menorah Review (No. 64, Winter/Spring, 2006) Jan 2006

Menorah Review (No. 64, Winter/Spring, 2006)

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A Poem by Richard E. Sherwin -- An Exceptional Collection -- Author's Reflections -- Hebrew Literature: Translated and Discussed -- Jewish Humor and Jewish Faith -- Reading Writing -- The Uniqueness of American Judaism -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 65, Summer/Fall, 2006) Jan 2006

Menorah Review (No. 65, Summer/Fall, 2006)

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A Rebbe in Skirts -- By Way of Introduction: Reflections on Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader -- Israeli Literature and Israeli Politics -- More in than Out -- Revisiting Old Themes Through a Contemporary Lens -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 62, Winter/Spring, 2005) Jan 2005

Menorah Review (No. 62, Winter/Spring, 2005)

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Tales to Engage -- The Study of The Holocaust And Its Discontents -- Jews Courageous -- Thinking Heart of A Concentration Camp: The Spiritual Journey of A Young Woman in Holland Under Nazi Occupation -- Great Russian-Jewish Historians -- Children's Merits -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 63, Summer/Fall, 2005) Jan 2005

Menorah Review (No. 63, Summer/Fall, 2005)

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Affirming Life -- Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and Christianity -- Beginnings Departures Endings -- Christians and Israel -- Judaism and Superstitions -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 61, Summer/Fall, 2004) Jan 2004

Menorah Review (No. 61, Summer/Fall, 2004)

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Reflections by the Author: Rochelle L. Millen -- Further Reflections on Rochelle L. Millen's Book -- Reflections by the Author: Herbert Hirsch -- Problems of Biblical Patriarchy -- A Dead Child Speaks -- Shepherd -- Our Brother Jesus -- Poetry After Auschwitz? -- Prophet, Go, Flee -- Put Me Into the Breach -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 60, Winter, 2004) Jan 2004

Menorah Review (No. 60, Winter, 2004)

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America and the Holocaust, Revisited: Notes on the Writing of ... -- The Road to Jewish Nationalism -- From the Classics -- The Reference Shell -- The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism -- From the Classics -- Hasidic Parables, Hasidic Polemics -- From the Classics -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 57, Winter, 2003) Jan 2003

Menorah Review (No. 57, Winter, 2003)

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Kishinev, 1903-2003 -- Kishinev 1903 -- Brief Reflections on Kishinev From Our Editors -- Crystal Night -- The City of Slaughter -- From The Children of the Warsaw Ghetto and Terezin … Fear, The Butterfly, My Father -- If I Forget... Can I? Dare I? -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 58, Spring/Summer, 2003) Jan 2003

Menorah Review (No. 58, Spring/Summer, 2003)

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The Quest for the Historical Rabbi / Peter J. Haas -- "Giants" Are Still Human / Kristin Swenson -- The Feminist Corner and the Reference Shelf / Sarah Barbara Watstein -- The Core of Jewish Tradition / Dan Miron -- On Early Synagogues / Matthew Schwartz -- Drunk on Heaven / Richard Sherwin -- Noteworthy Books.


Menorah Review (No. 59, Fall, 2003) Jan 2003

Menorah Review (No. 59, Fall, 2003)

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One Deity, Three Gifts -- From the Classics -- Non-Canonical Literature Remembered -- Zion and America -- Weighing the Prospects for Dialogue -- Renewing the Faith of a Diminishing Minority -- From the Classics -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 56, Fall, 2002) Jan 2002

Menorah Review (No. 56, Fall, 2002)

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Recent Research on Women in Israel: Politics, Academic and Motherhood -- Interdisciplinary Images -- Biblical Scholarship of Grace and Insight -- Refueling in Anytolia -- Outsider As Insider As Outsider -- The Feminist Corner -- The Yearly Battlefield -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 55, Spring/Summer, 2002) Jan 2002

Menorah Review (No. 55, Spring/Summer, 2002)

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Two Judaisms, Rabbinic and Christian, Invent Their Martyrdom Discourses -- PothoIes in the Jewish Landscape -- God Wrestling -- Remembrance of Things Past -- The Endless Diversity of Interpretation -- The Response to Uniqueness -- The Reference Shelf -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002) Jan 2002

Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002)

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Halakha, Hermeneutics and History -- Go -- Dialogue in Pursuit of Social Action -- Dream Joggings -- Rabbis, Society and Historiography -- Was Herod a Jew? -- Noteworthy Books