«Jewish Observer»

The Information Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

The Information And Analytical Edition
Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

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March 2002
5762 Nisan

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SPECULATIONS OF
A HESITANT MAN
What is Talmud thinking and what are the methods of contemporary science? Do they have common methods?

«HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP»
WILL BE SET UP!
Vladimir Litvin promised that Kiev city administration would be instructed to allot premises for the «House of People's Friendship».

Vladimir Litvin promised that Kiev city administration would be instructed to allot premises for the «House of People's Friendship».

ABOUT LANGUAGES
AND PEOPLES
Just imagine that the next issue of «Jewish Observer» will come from print in Hebrew or Yiddish... How many people in Ukraine will be able to read it?

Just imagine that the next issue of «Jewish Observer» will come from print in Hebrew or Yiddish... How many people in Ukraine will be able to read it?

WHERE HAVE ALL THE HUMANITARIANS GONE?
Only 6 thousand students out of 200 thousands enrolled in humanitarian courses. Only 6 Knesset deputies out of 120 have humanitarian education.

Only 6 thousand students out of 200 thousands enrolled in humanitarian courses. Only 6 Knesset deputies out of 120 have humanitarian education.

THE TWO SIDES OF ONE SHELL

IRINA KLIMOVA

Jewish consciousness is ambivalent. On the one hand, there are strict bans and recommendations for every moment of everybody's life. On the other hand, a Jew cannot live without expecting a miracle, without a fantasy world, without a mystery, without realizing the ephemeral nature of the material world. The world of a Jew is a dialogue with God, the Tanakha, the Talmud, the Galakha, the Agada amid a modern city. The material and spiritual are the two sides of one shell.

Memorial board to doctor Stukalenko

THE CHOICE DETERMINED BY CONSCIENCE

MIKHAIL GOLD

When do we get to know Man? When does he show all his existential greatness or smallness? When does he demonstrate his moral power or inability to oppose the wrong? It goes without saying that it happens at the turning moments of history when he faces, perhaps, the main choice of his life - between the power that gives him the right to earthly life and justice - a dangerous, thorny path, which may cost him his earthly life. Such a turning point in the life of whole nations was the Holocaust when it was courage that was needed so badly, not so much by the victims as by their rescuers.