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CHESHVAN, 5738 I OCTOBER 1977 VOLUME XII, NUMBER 8 fHE EWISH SEVENTY FIVE CENTS "Holocaust" - a leading Rosh Yeshiva examines the term and the tragic epoch it is meant to denote, offering the penetrating insights of a Daas Torah perspective on an era usually clouded with emo tion and misconception. "Holocaust Literature" - a noted Torah educator cuts a path through ever-mounting stacks of popular and scholarly works on "Churban Europe," highlighting the lessons to be learned and the pitfalls to be avoided. THE JEWISH BSERVER in this issue "Holocaust" - A Study of the Term, and the Epoch it is Meant to Describe, from a discourse by Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner K"t:l•7w. translated by Chaim Feuerman and Yaakov Feitman ......... .3 Dealing With "Ch urban Europa", THE JEWISH OB.SERVER is publi$ed a review article by Joseph Elias .................................................... 10 monthly, excePt July and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman St., New York, N.Y. Thumb Prints, Simcha Bunem Unsdorfer r, .. , ................................ 19 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription: Torah Ambassadors at large $7.50 per year; Two years, $13.00; Three years, $18.00; outside of the I. Bringing Torah to the Valley, Moshe Turk ....................... 22 United States $8.50 per year. II. The Mexico City Junket, Single copy seventy~five cents. Printed in the U.S.A. Suri Rosenberg and Rochel Zucker ........................ 25 Letters to the Editor ............................................................................ 30 RABBI N1ssoN WotrJN Editor Subscribe ------Clip.andsave------- Editorial Board The Jewish Observer l DR. ERNST L. BODENHEIMER Chairman Renew 5 Beekman Street/ New York, N.Y. -
B”H Introduction in Our First Article on the AOJS, We Explored Interactions
B”H Introduction In our first article on the AOJS, we explored interactions between Rebbe and Dr. Offenbacher — its founder. In this article, we will make note of additional interactions the Rebbe had with the AOJS. While the full story of the relationship between the Rebbe and AOJS is worthy of a more detailed study, we will focus here on a few specific interactions. Dr. Cyril Domb Professor Dr. Cyril (Yechiel) Domb (5681-5772) was born in North London, England, into a Chasidic Jewish family. He was deeply affected and inspired by his grandparents who were deeply religious Jews. He, in turn, retained this deep religious feeling, was meticulous in his observance of the Mitzvos — which always took precedence over activities for professional advancement1— and spent much of his free time devoted to Talmudic studies (including attending a daily Daf Yomi Shiur). Dr. Domb led a long and fruitful career in the study of Theoretical physics and statistical mechanics, lecturing at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, King’s College, London University, Bar-Ilan University, University of Maryland, Yeshiva University, Hebrew University, Jerusalem College of Technology and the Weizmann Institute. Shortly before making aliyah to Israel, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After encountering AOJS members in 5718, during a sabbatical year at the University of Maryland2, he helped found and lead a sister organization of the AOJS in London, in 57223. In 1971, Domb became the general editor of a book series which was sponsored by the AOJS, the purpose of which was to systematically present material which could be used for Jewish education. -
Israel and the Alien Tort Statute
Summer 2014 No.54 JTheUSTICE magazine of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists In this issue The International Court of Justice Adjudicating the Arab-Israel Disputes? Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and the Law Israel and the Alien Tort Statute Corporations and Human Rights Zivotofsky v. Kerry - A Historical Constitutional Battle Preachers of Hate and Freedom of Expression UNRWA Panel at UN IAJLJ Activities The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Honorary President: Hadassa Ben-Itto, Judge (Ret.) (Israel) Life time Member: Irwin Cotler, Prof. (Canada) Honorary Vice Presidents: Joseph Roubache (France) Oreste Bisazza Terracini, Dr. (Italy) Executive Committee: Board of Governors: President: Irit Kohn (Israel) Irit Kohn (Israel) Haim Klugman (Israel) Avraham (Avi) D. Doron (Israel) Deputy President: Meir Rosenne, Dr. (Israel) Haim Klugman (Israel) Mirella M. Bamberger (Israel) Alyza D. Lewin (USA) Vice President and Treasurer: Marcos Arnoldo Grabivker, Judge (Argentina) Avraham (Avi) D. Doron (Israel) Maurizio Ruben (Italy) Alex Hertman (Israel) Vice President and Coordinator with Amos Shapira, Prof. (Israel) International Organizations: Avishai Sapir (Israel) Meir Rosenne, Dr. (Israel) David Pardes (Belgium) Dov Shefi, Brig. (Ret.) (Israel) Vice President and Secretary General: Edna Bekenstein, Judge (Ret.) (Israel) Mirella M. Bamberger (Israel) Edna Kaplan-Hagler, Judge (Ret.) Dr. (Israel) Efraim (Efi) Chalamish, Dr. (USA) Vice Presidents: Ethia Simha (Israel) Alyza D. Lewin (USA) Jeremy D. Margolis (USA) Marcos Arnoldo Grabivker, Judge (Argentina) Jimena Bronfman (Chile) Maurizio Ruben (Italy) Jonathan Lux (UK) Lipa Meir, Dr. (Israel) Academic Adviser: Mala Tabory, Dr. (Israel) Yaffa Zilbershats, Prof. (Israel) Maria Canals De-Cediel, Dr. (Switzerland) Meir Linzen (Israel) Representatives to the U.N. -
The Jewish Observer
··~1 .··· ."SH El ROT LEUMI''-/ · .·_ . .. · / ..· .:..· 'fo "ABSORPTION" •. · . > . .· .. ·· . NATIONALSERVICE ~ ~. · OF SOVIET. · ••.· . ))%, .. .. .. · . FOR WOMEN . < ::_:··_---~ ...... · :~ ;,·:···~ i/:.)\\.·:: .· SECOND LOOKS: · · THE BATil.E · . >) .·: UNAUTHORIZED · ·· ·~·· "- .. OVER CONTROL AUTOPSIES · · · OF THE RABBlNATE . THE JEWISH OBSERVER in this issue ... DISPLACED GLORY, Nissan Wo/pin ............................................................ 3 "'rELL ME, RABBI BUTRASHVILLI .. ,"Dov Goldstein, trans lation by Mirian1 Margoshes 5 So~rn THOUGHTS FROM THE ROSHEI YESHIVA 8 THE RABBINATE AT BAY, David Meyers................................................ 10 VOLUNTARY SERVICE FOR WOMEN: COMPROMISE OF A NATION'S PURITY, Ezriel Toshavi ..... 19 SECOND LOOKS RESIGNATION REQUESTED ............................................................... 25 THE JEWISH OBSERVER is published monthly, except July and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, New York 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $5.00 per year; Two years, $8.50; Three years, $12.00; outside of the United States, $6.00 per year. Single copy, fifty cents. SPECIAL OFFER! Printed in the U.S.A. RABBI N ISSON W OLPJN THE JEWISH OBSERVER Editor 5 Beekman Street 7 New York, N. Y. 10038 Editorial Board D NEW SUBSCRIPTION: $5 - 1 year of J.O. DR. ERNEST L. BODENHEIMER Plus $3 • GaHery of Portraits of Gedolei Yisroel: FREE! Chairman RABBI NATHAN BULMAN D RENEWAL: $12 for 3 years of J.0. RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS Plus $3 - Gallery of Portraits of Gedo lei Yisroel: FREE! JOSEPH FRIEDENSON D GIFT: $5 - 1 year; $8.50, 2 yrs.; $12, 3 yrs. of ].0. RABBI YAACOV JACOBS Plus $3 ·Gallery of Portraits of Gedolei Yisroel: FREE! RABBI MOSHE SHERER Send '/Jf agazine to: Send Portraits to: THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not iVarne .... -
The Jewish Woman in a Torah Society
TEVES, 5735 I NOV.-DEC .. 1974 VOLUME X, NUMBERS 5-6 :fHE SIXTY FIVE CENTS The Jewish Woman in a Torah Society For Frustration or Fulfillment? Of Rights & Duties The Flame of Sara S chenirer The McGraw-Hill Anti-Sexism Memo ---also--- Convention Addresses by Senior Roshei Hayeshiva THE JEWISH OBSERVER in this issue ... OF RIGHTS AND DUTIES, Mordechai Miller prepared for publication by Toby Bulman.......................... 3 COMPLETENESS OF FAITH, based on an address by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein prepared for publication by Chaim Ehrman................... 5 CHUMASH: PREPARATION FOR OUR ENCOUNTER WITH THE WORLD, based on an address by Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky .................................. 8 SOME THOUGHTS ON MOSHIACH based on further remarks by Rabbi Kamenetsky ............... 9 PASSING THE TEST based on an address by Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman......................... I 0 JEWISH WOMEN IN A TORAH SOCIETY FOR FRUSTRATION? OR FULFILLMENT?, THE JEWISH OBSERVER is published monthly, except July and August, Nisson Wolpin ................. ............................................... 12 by the Agudath Israel of Amercia, 5 Beekman St., New York, N. Y. A FLAME CALLED SARA SCHENIRER, Chaim Shapiro 19 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $6.50 per year; Two years, $11.00; BETH JACOB: A PICTORIAL FEATURE ........................ 24 Three years $15.00; outside of the United States $7 .50 per year. Single THE McGRAW HILL ANTI-SEXISM MEMO, copy sixty~five cents. Printed in the U.S.A. Bernard Fryshman ................................... .............. 26 RABBI N1ssoN WoLPIN MAN, a poem by Faigie Russak .......................................... 29 Editor Editorial Board WAITING FOR EACH OTHER DR. ERNST L. BODENHEIMER 30 Chairman a poem by Joshua Neched Yehuda .............................. RABBI NATHAN BULMAN RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS BOOK IN REVIEW: What ls the Reason - Vols. -
The Struggle for Hegemony in Jerusalem Secular and Ultra-Orthodox Urban Politics
THE FLOERSHEIMER INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES The Struggle for Hegemony in Jerusalem Secular and Ultra-Orthodox Urban Politics Shlomo Hasson Jerusalem, October 2002 Translator: Yoram Navon Principal Editor: Shunamith Carin Preparation for Print: Ruth Lerner Printed by: Ahva Press, Ltd. ISSN 0792-6251 Publication No. 4/12e © 2002, The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, Ltd. 9A Diskin Street, Jerusalem 96440 Israel Tel. 972-2-5666243; Fax. 972-2-5666252 [email protected] www.fips.org.il 2 About the Author Shlomo Hasson - Professor of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and deputy director of The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies. About the Research This book reviews the struggle for hegemony in Jerusalem between secular and ultra-orthodox (haredi) Jews. It examines the democratic deficit in urban politics formed by the rise of the haredi minority to power, and proposes ways to rectify this deficit. The study addresses the following questions: What are the characteristics of the urban democratic deficit? How did the haredi minority become a leading political force in the city? What are the implications of the democratic deficit from the perspective of the various cultural groups? What can be done in view of the fact that the non-haredi population is not only under-represented but also feels threatened and prejudiced by urban politics initiated by the city council? About the Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies In recent years the importance of policy-oriented research has been increasingly acknowledged. Dr. Stephen H. Floersheimer initiated the establishment of a research institute that would concentrate on studies of long- range policy issues. -
The Second Miracle
ADAR 1-11 5733 / FEBRUARY 1973 VOLUME IX, NUMBER 1 FIFTY CENTS From Riga to Jerusalem: THE SECOND MIRACLE RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT, KISSING SEFER TORAH UPON ARRIVAL IN ISRAEL also The Akhashverosh Riddle Why Purim? The "Aveirah" Syndrome Letters • Books • Index THE JEWISH QBSERVER in this issue ... FROM RIGA TO JERUSALEM: THE SECOND MIRACLE, Herman Branover, as told to Nissan Wolpin ....... 3 A MODEST PROPOSAL, Aaron Brafman 6 FIGHTING FOR SHABBOS ON THE LEGAL FRONT-ADDENDA, Judah Dick ......................................... ........................................ 8 WHO WAS THE REAL AKHASHVEROSH'?, Shelomoh E. Danziger 12 THE JEWISH OBSERVER is published SOUNDS FROM SILENCE (POEMS), by Aaron Brafman 15 monthly, except July and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, WHY PURIM'?, Elkanah Schwartz ........... 16 5 Beekman Street, New York, New York 10038. Second class THE "AVEIRAH" SYNDROME, Moshe Spero 18 postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $5.00 per year; Two years, $8 ..~0; Three years, $12.00; BOOKS REVIEWED: outside of the United States, $6.00 per year. Single copy, fifty cents. CHAZON [SH, A BIOGRAPHY ...... 21 Printed in the U.S.A. RELIGIOUS JEWRY AND THE UNITED NATIONS ...... .. RABBI NISSON WOLPIN IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ................. Editor TEN YEARS OF HOPE ............................................................ .. 22 Editorial Board A PRESENT IN MY TREASURE CHEST 23 DR. ERNEST L. BODENHEIMER Chairn1an As DREAMERS WE WERE (A POEM), Aaron Blech ................. 24 RABBI NATHAN BULMAN RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS JOSEPH FRIEDENSON LETTERS TO THE EDITORS ............................................................................ 26 RABBI YAAKOV JACOBS RABBI MOSHE SHERER INDEX TO ARTICLES, VOLUME Vlll: SUBJECTS 30 THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responsibility for the AUTHORS 31 Kashrus of any product or service advertised in its pages. -
Happy Purim! RABBANIT SHANI TARAGIN on Why Purim Is the Most Zionistic Holiday
ADAR SHEINI 5779 MARCH 2019 TORAT ERETZ YISRAEL • PUBLISHED IN SHUSHAN • DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE WORLD ISRAEL EDITION RABBI BEREL WEIN פורים שמח! living our own purim story PAGE 24 Happy Purim! RABBANIT SHANI TARAGIN on why purim is the most zionistic holiday PAGE 5 RABBI JONATHAN SACKS invites us to be alert to G-d's messages PAGE 14 SIVAN RAHAV-MEIR with advice for a noisy world PAGE 23 RABBI CHAIM NAVON analyzes binge relationships PAGE 22 RABBANIT YEMIMA MIZRACHI with some magical moments for women this issue is dedicated in loving memory of PAGE 21 professor cyril domb by his wife and children Torat HaMizrachi HITLER, HAMAN & HAMAS A Parashat Zachor and Purim Primer bsolute evil has existed for minute. Thousands of years later, Individuals and societies possess both millennia. It constitutes a Hitler declared the same intentions. the passion for altruistic good and single-minded, systematic Tragically, he succeeded in murdering the impulse for self-destructive evil. focusA to destroy all good in the world. one third of the Jewish people, and Israel's mission is chiefly the former; According to Torah tradition, it has a if not for the hand of Providence Amalek's the latter. name. Amalek. The Torah commands guiding the actions of the Allied It was not by chance that Amalek was us to always remember and never Forces, he would have gone much 1 the first nation to attack Israel, as forget what Amalek represents. further. Unstopped and unchecked, this type of evil would, G-d forbid, soon as we came out of Egypt. -
Western Europe
Western Europe GREAT BRITAIN q PERIOD from July 1, 1954, through June 30, 1955, was an eventful one JL in Great Britain. It saw the dissolution of Parliament, accompanied by the retirement of Sir Winston Churchill and his replacement as prime min- ister by Sir Anthony Eden. Matters of special concern to British Jews were, internationally, Great Britain's relations with the Arab states, the trials of Rumanian Zionists, and the rearmament of Germany. On the domestic front, British Jewry combatted a parliamentary campaign against Shechita, the Jewish method of slaughter. In the general election of May 1955 the Conservative party increased its majority from seventeen to sixty. It polled 906,000 votes more than Labor, obtaining successes even in Lancashire where foreign competition in the textile industry was causing considerable anxiety. Of the seventeen Com- munist candidates, none were elected; fifteen lost their deposits by not se- curing one-eighth of the total votes cast in the constituencies in which they ran. Of the fifty-six Jewish candidates, thirty-nine were Labor, ten Conserva- tive, five Liberal, and two Communist. All the sixteen Jewish members in the last House of Commons were re-elected. There were now seventeen Jewish Labor members and one Conservative. The government had two Jewish members, both in the House of Lords—the Marquess of Reading, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Lord Mancroft, Undersecretary at the Home Office. The only anti-Jewish incident during the election was the painting of some slogans on walls in the Aston Division of Birmingham where there was a Jewish candidate, Julius Silverman. -
The Ewish Fifty Cents Bservef
ELUL 5726 / SEPTEMBER 1966 Volume 3, Number 7 THE EWISH FIFTY CENTS BSERVEF The Autopsy Crisis in Israel The Day Schools / A Balance Sheet A Voice From Beyond So Great is Teshuva ... • The Tablets and The Golden Calf A Yom Kippar Derosho by The Lutzker Rav THE JEWISH OBSERVER nJ1J nJ,nJ mrnn1 nJll'.l • nJW contents n'nN.::i nlJl W,l articles THE JEWISH OBSERVER is published OBSERVING THE JEWISH SCENE, Yaakov Jacobs.............................. 3 monthly, except July and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, THE AUTOPSY CRISIS IN ISRAEL, Menachem M. Greenberg 5 N. Y. 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $5.00 per year; THE DAY SCHOOLS/ A BALANCE SHEET, Joseph Kaminetsky 9 single copy: 50¢. Printed in the U.S.A. A VOICE FROM BEYOND, Ahron Jeruchem .......................................... 13 THE LUTZKER RAV, RABBI ZALMAN SOROTZKIN, '"lT .................. 18 Editorial Board DR. ERNST L. BODENHEIMER Chainnan THE TABLETS AND THE GOLDEN CALF, Adapted from a Yorn RABBI NATHAN BULMAN Kippur derosho by Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, 'J"lT ............ 19 RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS JOSEPH FRIEDENSON So GREAT 1s TEsHUVA .. ., An adaptation from the writings RABBI MORRIS SHERER of the Maharal MiPrague ........... ....................... 21 Advertising Manager RABBI SYSHE HESCHEL Managing Editor RABBI YAAKOV JACOBS features THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responsibility for the RABBI SAMSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH ON THE PsHMS, A Review 23 Kashrus of any product or service advertised in its pages. SECOND -
National Coalitions in Israel, 1984-1990
NATIONAL COALITIONS IN ISRAEL, 1984-1990: THE POLITICS OF "NOT LOSING" A Thesis for the degree of Ph.D. Presented to the University of London By Dan Korn London School of Economics May 1992 1 - UMI Number: U549931 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Disscrrlation Publishing UMI U549931 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 o ON CA lA N Abstract For six years since 1984 Israel underwent a unique p o litic al experience: i t was ruled by national coalitions supported by more than 75% of the members of parliament. Larger-than-minimal coalitions have always been problematic for traditional coalition theory. The Israeli case provides therefore an opportunity to examine the various actors' motivations and behaviour, as they reflect on coalition theory at 1arge. The assumption that actors are driven by "win maximization" is central to formal models of coalition theory. This assumption led to predictions of winning coalitions which are minimal in size, membership or ideological scope. Non-minimal coalitions were regarded as suboptimal choices, explainable on an ad hoc basis, e.g. -
Dr. Belkin's Reputation and Record Have Been Overshadowed by Both
nineteenth-century battle Rabbi its discussion of Dr. Belkin’s impact on Hashem. Samson Raphael Hirsch led, with a YU and, ultimately, on the wider arena Dr. Belkin was also a pioneer in the Books small number of families, to establish of American Orthodoxy. ba’al teshuvah movement. Together an independent Orthodox congrega- Dr. Belkin was a pioneer of higher with the late Rabbi Moshe Besdin, he tion in Frankfurt. education for Jewish women. In the established YU’s James Striar School of In general, the twenty-five years fifties, against significant opposition, General Jewish Studies (JSS) for new- after the conclusion of World War II he established Stern College for comers to Judaism. JSS offered an were rough times for Orthodox Jewry. Women. As such, Dr. Belkin’s actions intensive course of Jewish studies to Conservative Judaism (claiming to be were as revolutionary as the creation of those who were not yet Orthodox. It was Orthodoxy Awakens: The while his colleague, as the de facto II. Geller’s observations, recollections loyal to halachah) was on the rise, and the Beth Jacob schools for women was a model for various other schools created Belkin Era and Yeshiva spiritual head and rosh hayeshivah, was and discussions make for interesting the American congregational scene was in Eastern Europe after World War I. in the United States and in Israel in University the larger-than-life figure of the gaon, and highly rewarding reading. Geller marked by constant strife over such Not only did Dr. Belkin bring about the wake of the Six-Day War.