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The Further Reforming of Conservative Judaism The Further Reforming of Conservative Judaism in this issue ... THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN 002]-6615) is published monthly, except July and August, by the Changes in Perspective Through Torah Encounters ........ 6 Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, N.Y. The Sunday Night Class, Hillel Belsky ..•.....•.•.... 7 10038. Second class postage paid The Joyful Light, Amos Keinen ........•.••....••••.• 9 at New York, N.Y. Subscription $15.00 per year; two years, $27.00; Concerns of a Parent, Harvey S. Hecker . ...•..••.•..• 10 three years. $36.00 outside of the United States, US funds only. "Dear Mom," Molly, Moshe and I .............•.••.. 13 $20.00 in Europe and Israel. $25.00 in So. Africa and Australia. Single The Age of Teshuva, a review article ..••.•..•..•••.. 14 copy, $2.00. Send address changes Return to The Jewish Observer, 5 Beek­ man St., N.Y. N.Y. 10038. Printed Pathways in the U.S.A. Our Miraculous World With Perfect faith HABnt N1ssoN WoLPJN Editor The further Reforming of Conservative Judaism, Nisson Wolpin .................................•••••.. 17 Editorial Board The Critical Parent's Guidebook, Avi Shulman .•.•..•.••••.• 20 OR. ERNST BoDENHrtMER Chairman The "Chaver," Yisroel Miller ...•....•.....•.....•.•..•... 25 RABBI NATHAN BULMAN RABBI josrrtt Eu ... s Saddiq of the Sahara, Nehama Consuelo Nahmoud . ......•.•..• 28 Josu'H fRIEDENSON RABBI MOSHE SHERER Books in Review ...................................... 33 Management Board The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet NAFTOU HIRSCH !SAA( K!RZNER Chumash Bereshith (Three Sidros); NACHUM 5TF.!N A Linear Translation Business Manager Letter to a Soviet Jew, a poem by Varda Branfman .......••..• 35 PESACH H. KONSTAM Second Looks at the Jewish Scene T Hr Jrw1sH OesERVrR does not assume responsibility for the The Dioxin Connection ......................... 37 Kashrus of any product or ser­ The Diary of a "Baal Agalla," Shmuel Cymerman . •••......... 39 vice advertised in its pages. ©Copyright 1983 NOV. 83, VOL. XVII, NO. 4 5744 KISLEV ...... l I The Practical and The Promising As this reliance on electric energy however, solar technologies are in i continues to grow, all the resources early stages ofdevelopment. Although that can generate electricity are being some limited uses are being made, solar examined. Some of the alternatives electricity is still too expensive for are discussed here. Others, like fusion widespread practical use. and ocean thermal energy conver­ One possible system is the solar­ sion, may play a role in the more dis­ thermal electric station, or "power tant future. tower." A small solar-thermal plant in the Mojave Desert uses a large field of mirrors to track the sun and focus its heat onto a centrally mounted steam SOLAR. In some respects, solar boiler that drives a turbine-generator. Although overall energy demand in energy has begun to pay off. For the Another solar electric technology the U.S. dropped slightly over the heating of water, solar systems are is photovoltaics. It uses silicon or last decade, the use of electricity now economically competitive in other semiconductors to convert the actually rose more than 20 percent. some regions of the U.S. with plenty sun's rays directly into electricity. This electrification trend has gone of sunshine. Also, there are new Researchers are working on increas­ on throughout the century and is buildings benefiting from "passive" ing the efficiency and reducing the expected to continue. The United solar designs. They utilize the sun high costs of photovoltaics. States Department of Energy recently through nonmechanical means WIND. Wind power, like many reported that "the economy is very such as skylights and heat-storing alternative energy sources, depends likely to turn increasingly to electric­ rock beds. on geography. It is most promising in ity for its energy requirements." For the generation of electricity, the Great Plains, in mountain passes, - ·-- and along coastal areas, where winds methane gas produced from decaying ELECTRIC UTILITY ENERGY CONSUMPTION are strong and steady. organic materials. (Quadrillion Btu's per Year) Some of the larger wind projects 1990 2000 have had problems. But they are COAL being addressed, and utility compa­ nies today are involved in well over Some of our important energy op­ 100 wind-power research projects. tions involve not new production NUCLEAR California's Energy Commission has technologies but more efficient ways 2-9 of delivering and using energy. So conservation methods, including in­ HYDROPOWER I 2:8'. ~.2 3.7 dustrial cogeneration, will also help meet our energy needs. With all of America's energy alter­ NATURAi.GAS 3c7 .2.9 2.0 natives, it's easy to forget how much t of our electric power will still be OIL generated from conventional fuels. 2.2 l.8 1,0 The Department of Energy projects I that by the year 2000, over 80 per­ GEOTHERMAL, I cent of the country's total electricity BIOMASS .08 0.3 ~),7 generation will still come from the abundant domestic resources of SOLAR, WIND Reliability and strength ofthe wind play 0,05 0-9 an important role in the location of "wind coal and uranium. I ·- Source: Energy Projections to the Year 2(){)(), July this Oil and natural gas are more val­ farms'' like one in Altamont Pass, east of 1982 l!pdate, U.S. Deparrment of Energy, 8182. San Francisco. Wind generators are spread uable fuels for transportation and over hundreds ofacres ofland. manufacturing than for burning in The Department ofEnergy foresees sizable power plants. Also, these fuels, espe­ growth for both nuclear energy and coal in predicted a wind-power potential this country's electrical future. of 1000 megawatts for the state by cially oil, are subject to uncertainties the year 2000, if current trends con­ over price and future supply. the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commis­ tinue. That's the equivalent of one On the other hand, we have sion. And they are being built. major electric power plant, or ap­ enough coal to last hundreds of years. A steady and secure supply of proximately 2 percent of the state's Coal will remain our dominant electricity is critical for a healthy present electrical capacity. economy. Some of the alternative GEOTHERMAL. The internal heat energy sources discussed here may of the earth is another energy source. eventually become significant con­ Geothermal energy is captured from tributors to America's electrical sup­ hot water or steam created by hot or ply, depending on what part of the molten rock. 1300 megawatts of geo­ country you live in. Some may not. thermal electric capacity are now Whatever the future holds, we need available in this country, mostly in to take advantage of the domestic California. energy resources already within HYDRO. Falling water generated our reach. We need to understand almost 14 percent of the nation's not only the electricity potential electricity last year. Most U.S. sites of tomorrow, but the electricity for large-scale hydro projects are al­ We have enough coal in the US. to last hun­ realities of today. ready in use, but there is potential for dreds ofyears. It is estimated that by 1990, r-------------------------,For a free booklet on Energy Options and I further development of low-head or elet:tric utilities will be burning over 780 the electrical future of America, send this : million tons ofcoal a year to supp~y more "minihydro": the use of small and coupon to: I than half ofAnu.>rica 's electricity. medium-sized dams, either newly U.S. Committee for Energy Awareness : built or upgraded. By 1985, there source of electricity. And advanced P.O. Box 37012 I may be about 400 new small-scale Washington, D.C. 20013 : technologies such as coal gasifica­ I hydro projects, largely in the North­ tion and fluidized-bed combustion are I east. Like other energy sources, creating new ways to burn coal cleanly. 1NAME : though, hydro has limitations. These I I To secure a well-balanced supply I I include the environmental changes of energy, America is also relying on :ADDRESS : that can be caused by damming a I I nuclear power. Aside from the 80 I I river, as well as the uncertain relia­ plants already generating nuclear : CITY STATE __ ZIP ___ : bility of power that is fed by rain electricity in the U.S., 56 more have and snow. been granted construction permits by : c::==i: BIOMASS. This term refers to a L-------------------------J wide variety of fuel sources, includ- t"~ ing plant and animal waste, wood, algae, and garbage. The largest user of biomass in the U.S. today is the forest products industry, which gets about 50 percent of its energy from wood wastes. Another form of biomass is Changes in Perspective Through Torah Encounters Exposure to the truths of Torah can put into motion changes in perspective that bring about radical alterations in the goals a person sets for himself and, subsequently, how he leads his life. In the pages that follow, we offer several glimpses at how these changes take place: as viewed by a teacher of Torah-and experienced by him as well, for no one remains untouched by a Torah encounter; as seen by a former companion to a ban vivant-cum-ball teshuva; as perceived by distressed parents of a former honors student in college, who was bitten by the "teshuva bug"; as expressed by a young man leaving his Reform-Jewish parents for a religious life in Israel; and as recorded in several exciting books. Read on, experience the encounter ... and risk change. 6 l 'X·':}'.~.:.·..· ..·.·.··.•.'.·.'t •. :./'.:··.;C: .•. ';.;: ..·.·· ... ··· ;;.:;;·'··.·.5;.. :.·.:.·:.;;1..·.·.::; ... •.••. ·.'·.·.·.·..···.••.•.·.·.·.··i'f/· ...;: .•.·• ..··.••.·.· .• .n.·.• .. ·.·.'.·.·.·.•·.<.• .. •'.'.''.· .... /1:.·:.;;··.;~..·.·.·.•::.·.•.;'; ...•.•. ·.' ..':•'.;··.' .. •.·.·.•.' .. '"· ..'', ...*.·.'.·.:·;.:;: ..·'·,· ..•. '); ···~nanges·.·i:n. r:.ersp~ct1v·· Through.Torah Encounters Hillel Belsky lhe Sunday Night Class Growing Together in Memphis a class-perhaps people would come, perhaps they wouldn't. But they certainly wouldn't come if there were no class.
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