Fall 5765/2004            Vol. 65, No. 1

FEATURES

The Orthodox Baby Boom                                                               Viva Hammer

SYMPOSIUM: “YOU HAVE CHOSEN US FROM AMONG THE NATIONS”

Jonathan Blass                                                Eitan Fiorino

          Chaim Eisen                                                     Lawrence Kelemen

Yaakov Feitman                                              Norman Lamm

Mosheh Lichtenstein

Kabbalah, Science and the Creation of the Universe                    Nathan Aviezer

ISRAEL

On and Off the Beaten Track in … Nahal Perat                           Peter Abelow

DEPARTMENTS 

LETTERS

JUST BETWEEN US           A Single Mother Speaks Out            Shoshana Bulow

LEGAL-EASE           What’s the Truth about … Davening with a Minyan                                                                                            Ari Z. Zivotofsky

KOSHERKOPY         Hard Truths about Hard Liquor                 Avrohom Juravel

NEW TO

THE CHEF’S TABLE          Rosh Hashanah Delicacies                Helen Nash

COUNTERPOINT        The Future of Modern Orthodoxy in America

BOOKS                      Reluctant Return: A Survivor’s Journey to an Austrian Town

by David Weiss            Reviewed by Alan Rosen

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

by Rabbi Shmuel Waldman     Reviewed by Jack Abramowitz

About the cover:       

Scrap: Tashlikh

US, early twentieth century

Paper: printed, embossed

Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, New York