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Samuel Pisar, who is a naturalized American living in Paris and the widely acclaimed author of Coexistence and Commerce, is perhaps the paradigm of the existential, communal kind of Jew. Of the 900 students in his Polish elementary school, Pisar is one of two to survive the holocaust. He calls the communal ties of Jews a "bond of suffering that comes whenever Jews are threatened." He felt the pull of that bond when he attended an international conference in Kiev last summer. After a VIP tour of the city, he became uneasy. "The [concentration camp] numbers...
...Jewishness becomes stronger," comments James Sleeper in The New Jews, "when you realize that your people have known what it is to live as pariahs in the universe, with the shadow of total annihilation a constant reality. In such moments of awareness, a lesson of Jewish survival is 'hope against hope.' Hope when it makes no sense. Hope when you have known the seamy, brutal underside of a church that stirs the hearts of millions [Christianity], or when you have begun to understand the claim of a Jew dying in the Warsaw ghetto that he would be the oppressed rather...
...Reform Jew Petuchowski, the Covenant theology of revelation means that denominational lines are often irrelevant. His own life illustrates the blurring of those lines: his wife keeps a kosher kitchen, unusual for Reform Jews, and he volunteers his services to a small Reform congregation in Laredo, Texas, on the first night of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), then moves on to a nearby Conservative synagogue for the next night of the high holy days...
...tradition. "The American Jew is integrated in American society," says Soloveitchik, "but we have another commitment too, a metaphysical commitment ? a covenant with God. We must burden the child with both commitments." Burden indeed: to accommodate the dual study load, the school day at Maimonides runs from...
...food preparation, with the result that there are two categories of kosher food ? regular kosher, acceptable to most Orthodox, and glatt (smooth) kosher* preferred by the more rigorous ultraOrthodox. More serious disagreements revolve around whether a Gentile who is converted through non-Orthodox procedures is in fact a Jew, or even whether Orthodox rabbis can engage in interdenominational conversations with less observant rabbis. Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, a leading theologian of the Orthodox left, has joined Reform and Conservative leaders on New York's Board of Rabbis, but such cooperation is anathema to the ultraOrthodox...