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Text Context January 2012

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    Editor’s Note
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    Inscribed In Stone
    By Stuart Schoffman
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    History After The Witnesses
    By Deborah E. Lipstadt
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    Ground Up
    By Etgar Keret
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    A Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow
    By Barry E. Lichtenberg
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    The Once And Future Past
    By Yehuda Kurtzer
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    A Disappearing Community
    By Sara Y. Aharon
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Editor’s Note

DEBBIE MARGALIT,  Long Lison. Courtesy of Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem.

By Sandee Brawarsky
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Inscribed In Stone

Mark Podwal.  Spring (c) 2012, from Sharing the Journey: The Haggadah for the Contemporary Family (CCAR Press).

Of Zechariah and self-fulfilling prophecies.

By Stuart Schoffman
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History After The Witnesses

When the survivors are gone, Holocaust education will lose a powerful tool.

By Deborah E. Lipstadt
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Ground Up

DAVID WANDER. Olive Tree, 2003, oil on canvas, 28” x 60”.

Diagnosed with cancer, my father decided to have his tongue removed. It’s an extreme treatment, but he’s always known how to make things work out.

By Etgar Keret
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A Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow

The Unisphere, 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, 12-story spherical stainless steel representation of Earth.

One day the immense grandeur of the universe will become real and manifest. Where will God fit in?

By Barry E. Lichtenberg
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The Once And Future Past

DAVID WANDER. Elijah’s Chair, 1996, oil and gold leaf on wood.

Judaism and its messianisms.

By Yehuda Kurtzer
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A Disappearing Community

CHRYSTIE SHERMAN. Zevulun Simantov, the last Jew living in Afghanistan, in the courtyard of the synagogue, also his residence.

Although only one Jew remains, Afghanistan was once a peaceful home for Jews.

By Sara Y. Aharon
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The View From 18

Mark Podwal. Next Year in Jerusalem (c) 2012, from Sharing the Journey: The Haggadah for the  Contemporary Family (CCAR Press).

What it’s like to be young and Orthodox in 2012.

By Daniel Kaplan
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Journal Watch

By Jerome A. Chanes
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In The Palm Of His Hand

YITZCHOK MOULLY.  Williamsburg, N.Y., 2008, acrylic on canvas.

A look at Abraham Hochman, 19th-century Lower East Side clairvoyant.

By Eddy Portnoy
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