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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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


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. 48, Winter, 2000) Jan 2000

Menorah Review (No. 48, Winter, 2000)

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The Problem of Pain -- Science and Religion: The Case of Judaism -- Shylock the Liberal -- The Poet of Delight Beyond Suffering -- The Feminist's Corner -- American Jews: A Body Politic -- From Woodstock Shall Go Forth the Law -- 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. 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. 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


Menorah Review (No. 35, Fall, 1995) Jan 1995

Menorah Review (No. 35, Fall, 1995)

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Jewish Path, Buddhist Path: Do They Meet? -- Sparks of Light -- Jewish-Americans and American Sports: Memory, Identity and Assimilation -- How to Develop the Moral Personality -- Political and the Nationalist Judaism -- Litigation -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 32, Fall, 1994) Jan 1994

Menorah Review (No. 32, Fall, 1994)

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A Jewish View of Christianity: Recognition Without Surrender -- The Evolving Jewish West -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Confessions of a Conservative Scholar -- Biblical Perspectives on the Human Quest -- Psalm -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 28, Spring, 1993) Jan 1993

Menorah Review (No. 28, Spring, 1993)

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Counterpart Communities -- Peace and Existenz -- The Meaning is in the Meeting -- Judenthum As the Quintessential Other -- Focusing -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 22, Spring, 1991) Jan 1991

Menorah Review (No. 22, Spring, 1991)

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The Christian-Jewish Encounter -- Hooked on Academic Freedom and Integrity -- Genesis and Semiosis: Structural Reading of a Biblical Book -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 20, Fall, 1990) Jan 1990

Menorah Review (No. 20, Fall, 1990)

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Abba Hillel Silver, The Holocaust and American Politics: 1943-1944 -- Different Jews - One Judaism -- Book Briefing -- Rescuing Jews During the Holocaust -- Balancing -- Text and Context: The Case of American Judaism -- Book Briefings


Menorah Review (No. 6, Winter, 1986) Jan 1986

Menorah Review (No. 6, Winter, 1986)

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On How Being Jewish Is Different -- Is Good Business Good? -- Choosing Or Being Chosen -- Poetry: The Gift of Sight -- Contributions