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Menorah Review

Richard Sherwin

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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


Menorah Review (No. 52, Spring/Summer, 2001) Jan 2001

Menorah Review (No. 52, Spring/Summer, 2001)

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Zionism and Postzionism: Recent Re-Evaluations of Ideology and Historiography -- Mirror Images? -- Righteous Memorial -- Funny, You Don't Look One Hundred -- Morality After the Holocaust -- A Legend for John Keats -- New Directions in Jewish Ethics -- Jewish Rights: What is "Normative"? -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 53, Fall, 2001) Jan 2001

Menorah Review (No. 53, Fall, 2001)

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Uriah Levy and Monticello -- Prejudice and the Military -- The Feminist's Corner -- Derrida Remembers Levinas -- Tu B'Shvat -- Jerusalem and Tel Aviv -- Noteworthy Books -- Understanding the Holocaust


Menorah Review (No. 49, Spring/Summer, 2000) Jan 2000

Menorah Review (No. 49, Spring/Summer, 2000)

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From Trotskyism to the World of Our Fathers -- The Feminists Corner -- Israel Time 1430 Between 7 Hrs 38 Min Flying Time Left to Newark, Past Vienna, Turning NW To... -- Contemporary Interpretations of Ancient Israel -- Emancipation and Disintegration -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 50, Fall, 2000) Jan 2000

Menorah Review (No. 50, Fall, 2000)

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The Merchant of Venice and Skylock's "Christian Problem" -- Mishlo'ach Manot -- Jews and Slaves -- Lambs and Wolves? -- Gd's Grace, Gd's Rain -- Rabbinic Authority in Babylonia -- Is an Art and Literature of the Holocaust Possible, or Does it Violate A Strict Taboo? -- Golden Bluff Boulder -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 46, Spring/Summer, 1999) Jan 1999

Menorah Review (No. 46, Spring/Summer, 1999)

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The Quintessential Other -- Were Jews Ignored by All? -- Critical Perspectives on Israel the 1990s: Politics, Society, Scholarship -- Early Spring -- From Auschwitz to Meaning Therapy -- Jews and Muslims Together -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999) Jan 1999

Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999)

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Physician-Assisted Suicide -- What Price Prejudice? -- The American Synagogue: Now and Then -- Amelek -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist's Corner -- King David -- A Good Life Now and Then -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 45, Winter, 1999) Jan 1999

Menorah Review (No. 45, Winter, 1999)

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The Timeless Value of Heschel -- Religion and Politics -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist's Corner -- What We Are, What We Have, What We Are Able To Do -- Mendelssohn, Reason and Religion -- Mordecai Kaplan and American Jewish Orthodoxy -- Noteworthy Books


Menorah Review (No. 44, Fall, 1998) Jan 1998

Menorah Review (No. 44, Fall, 1998)

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When Bad Things Happen to Anyone: Venturing East of Uz -- The Meandering Muse -- A New Jewry: Promise or Threat? -- Synagogue and State -- Theology, Justice and Memory After the Holocaust -- Book Listing -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 42, Winter, 1998) Jan 1998

Menorah Review (No. 42, Winter, 1998)

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Black-Jewish Relations: Past, Present and Future -- Exploring Exodus: The Common Root for Judaism and Christianity -- Sarah at the Tent Post -- On Studying Mishnah -- Book Listing -- Christianity Without Jeers -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997) Jan 1997

Menorah Review (No. 39, Winter, 1997)

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An Interpretive Methodology With Supersessionist Forebodings -- Through a Glass Brightly: Seeing the Unseeable -- The 12th Annual Selma and Jacob Brown Lecture -- Controversy and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Book Listing -- Jewish Civics -- Leah -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 40, Spring/Summer, 1997) Jan 1997

Menorah Review (No. 40, Spring/Summer, 1997)

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A Dissenting Voice -- More Resources By, For and About Jewish Women -- Individuals of the Jewish Persuasion -- Book Listing -- Recognizing the Other -- Copying Torah, Copying Love -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 41, Fall, 1997) Jan 1997

Menorah Review (No. 41, Fall, 1997)

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The Jewish Image in American Fiction -- An Endless Journey? -- A Summer's Game -- The Exilic Home of Jewish Literature -- Book Listing -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 36, Winter, 1996) Jan 1996

Menorah Review (No. 36, Winter, 1996)

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Surviving the Twentieth Century -- On Jewish Art: "Wherefore Art Thou?" -- Leah -- The Message of Kohelet -- Holocaust Texts: A "Newer Testament" -- Jewish Women and Jewish Writers -- Places -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 38, Fall, 1996) Jan 1996

Menorah Review (No. 38, Fall, 1996)

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Jews and the New Christian Right -- A Time To Kill and a Time to Heal -- The Wisdom Tradition -- Among the Saints -- Full Circle -- Teaching Civics and Culture -- What Is a Community? -- From Israel with Love -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 37, Spring/Summer, 1996) Jan 1996

Menorah Review (No. 37, Spring/Summer, 1996)

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What Do You Say That I Am? -- Taking the Plunge -- Freudian Identity -- Poetic Faith -- The First Arab-Israeli Talks: An Anti-Zionist's Perspective -- Love and Death in the Jewish Exegetical Tradition -- Book Briefings