Amen to Fred's posting!
Madeleine Cohen Oakley (a Conservative Jew working in a [modern] Orthodox
day school)
Hanna --
I think quality is a universal, not a specific value. I have seen (as a
member of the Sydney Taylor Book Committee) wonderful books from Orthodox
publishers, and
Does the emphasis on evenhandedness extend to books written from within
all branches of Judaism? For example, does a balanced collection include
books on Jewish women written from the Chabad and Agudat Yisrael
perspective (Kehot, Feldheim, Artscroll) as well as from the feminist
perspective or the
I think the question applies equally, actually far more, to whether
orthodox schools and libraries include materials from all of Judaism --
forget feminism; what about plain old Conservative, Reconstructionist, and
Reform?
And, again, the point is not about even-handednss towards the
Hanna --
I think quality is a universal, not a specific value. I have seen (as a
member of the Sydney Taylor Book Committee) wonderful books from Orthodox
publishers, and ordinary ones from mainstream presses. I tried to identify
the angle of vision in my reviews, but beyond that I wanted my
...equally as scrupulous to include religious views with which you disagree?
Good question. . Even though the Sinagoga conservador/masorti LaJavura
library could fit in your back pocket, instead of blowing the budget on 5
copies of the same jumash, I bought
the Marcos Edery conservative
Andrea-
Apparently, you are discussing demonization literature (such as the
schoolbooks of the Palestinians).
I, on the other hand, have in mind books (and films, although I have not
seen and do not know much about Relentless, so I don't know where it fits
in my own judgement) that may well
I agree, in spite of the following incident,
which occured several years ago.
I was standing in the check-out line at
a local public library. In front of me were
several young neo-Nazis/skinhead 'wannabees,'
who were waiting to check out close to a dozen
books on Hitler.
While waiting in line,
Shutting ourselves into a box of everyone who does not agree
completely with how I feel is an enemy
==
An enemy is what I call people who have created the most enormous body
of literature of demonization of Jews since Germany in the 1930's. It
is completely comparable. American Jewish Committee
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