Assemblies by the Sea: The Jewish Chautauqua Society in Atlantic City, 1897-1907 by Peggy K. Perlstein
The Jewish Chautauqua Society (JCS), founded in Philadelphia in 1893 by Reform Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, evolved from an organization dedicated to popularizing Jewish knowledge among Jews to one devoted to teaching non-Jews about Judaism. Modelled on Chautauqua Institution, the Society established reading circles, a Correspondence School for Hebrew Sunday School teachers, religious schools for the children of Jewish farmers,, published textbooks, and, beginning in 1897, held annual assemblies for more than forty years.
Walls and Boundaries in Rabbinic-Biblical Foreign Policy: A Psychological Analysis by Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz
This essay extends an interpersonal model to rabbinic interpretation of biblical foreign policy. Specifically, a wall-boundary analysis is made of ancient Israel’s relation to four categories of nations: (a) Amalek and the Canaanites, (b) Ammon and Moab, (c) Edom and Egypt, and (d) the other nations. King Saul’s counternormative behavior is discussed toward (a) King Agag of Amalek and (b) the Hebrew priests of God at Nob. Wall permeability becomes normative with an unassaulted inner boundary. When the boundary is under assault, however, wall permeability is expressly blocked.
Power and Spirituality in the Thought of Hans J. Morgenthau
Hans J. Morgenthau’s legacy has been undergoing a scholarly reevaluation. From an earlier perception of Morgenthau as a one-dimensional advocate of pure realpolitik, more recent scholarly literature has been emphasizing significant transcendent themes in Morgenthau’s thought, that reflect his concerns relating to the importance of morality in state craft, man’s philosophic quest, and even spirituality. Drawing on his teaching, unpublished works, and lesser known published works, this work contends that Morgenthau had significant spiritual concerns that under lined his assumptions about man’s behavior in the political realm, upon which his understanding of international behavior was ultimately based.
The Importance of Terminology for a Solution to the Jerusalem Question
The Regeneration of French Jewry: The Influx and Integration of North African Jewry into France, 1955-1965
The Contest for the Jewish Future
Israel at Fifty: The Meaning of the Establishment of the State of Israel
Switzerland and the Unfinished Business of World War II
The Haredization of American Orthodox Jewry
The Hebron Agreements Note for the Record: A Pandora’s Box of Legal and Political Obstacles
How Israel Absorbed the Immigration Wave of the 1990s
Religious Zionists in Jerusalem
Russia and Iran: A Tactical Alliance
Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Judaism: How to Square the Circle
LePen’s National Front: A Threat to the Jews of France
In early July 1997, Chaim Musicant, Director of the Conseil Representif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), France’s most important Jewish organization, told this writer with a combination of anger and astonishment: "It is incredible that fifty years after World War II, a racist party has arisen in France that was able to capture 15 percent of the vote in the May 1997 legislative elections."
