ECHOD
July 11, 2008
by Hugh Fox
Feeling Friday after noon begin to run down into holiness, aiming the laser beam on her cornea, goofy disease, presumably the reaction of the body to a fungus generated by leaves, earth, dog-stuff...so that the eye began to devour itself. She was lucky, if the lesion had ruptured and bled into the eye, at least at the present state of the art, she would have gone blind.
Features
A Renewable Light Unto the Nations
July 23, 2008
by Yosef Israel Abramowitz
The convenient truth about the Jewish people is that when we put our minds and capital to work, we can make miracles happen. There is no more noble cause than saving humanity itself, ensuring that God’s covenant not to wipe out the planet with rising waters will be — in some small measure — because of our actions.
Editorial
A Third Temple?
July 9, 2008
by Daniel E. Levenson
I have always been curious about the role of the idea of the temple in a modern Jewish context. Clearly we derive many of our customs and religious practices from the days when the temples stood, both from actual practices conducted in the temple service, and from the larger Jewish culture that existed at the time, so I was particularly interested to read an article in Haaretz about a group of people who are not only eagerly anticipating the building of a third temple, but are hard at work creating (or recreating) all of the physical trappings of priestly culture, from incense burners to custom tailored robes for those who claim familial descent from the kohanim.
Arts & Letters
Brandeis Hosts Exhibition of “Post-Jewish” Art
June 26, 2008
by Daniel E. Levenson
Jewish artists have always found different ways to express not only Jewish ideas, but their own personal relationship to those ideas. In songs, poems, paintings and other art forms, each generation must wrestle anew with the rich and complex cultural and theological traditions of Judaism, and the one which was born in the 1960’s and 1970’s is no exception. This is clearly evident in “The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation,” an exhibit currently at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The exhibit is on loan from the Spertus Museum in Chicago, where it was created by Senior Curator Staci Boris.
Fiction
The King and His Leg
(A Parable)
by Zohar Atkins
April 23, 2008
THERE was a king who lived in a splendid castle far from the rest of the kingdom. One day, the king’s toe became infected. For a long time, the king did not notice the infection. The king, as it happens, was a giant, and it took years for his toe’s sense receptor to send signals to his brain. By the time the king looked down at his toe, the infection had moved all the way up his leg.
An Excerpt from the Novel Who by Fire, Who by Blood
April 21, 2008
by Jon Papernick
The sun was setting as Stone and Gabby arrived at the Fulton Landing, just in time to see a tense wedding party dressed stiffly in full regalia, mock smile, and pose at the photographers insistent commands, shrilly barked with all the decorum of a middle-school gym teacher. The party looked miserable. Gabby quipped, “And they wonder why I’m not married.”
Poetry
You and Me
-Daniel E. Levenson
The Rabbi’s Backyard Garden after my Grandfather’s Funeral
-Sara Kaplan
Jewish Boston
Jewish Community Relations Council honors Deputy Director Alan S. Ronkin at Annual Meeting
June 12, 2008
by Daniel E. Levenson
On Wednesday, June 11th the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston held its annual meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston. The theme of the gathering was "The Power of One," which was supposed to connect with the main address by Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, who was unfortunately unable to attend because his flight was delayed due to bad weather. The event went on, however, with many local dignitaries and leaders of the Boston Jewish community in attendance to celebrate the work of the JCRC and honor this year's recipient of the Warren B. Kohn Award, JCRC Deputy Director Alan S. Ronkin.
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