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December 10-31, 1997 / 11 Kislev-2 Tevet, 5758 / Chanukah Issue
J W R / Jewish World Review
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  • Jackie Mason thanks the pope for a very special Chanukah.
  • Linda Chavez foresees a grim, Seinfeldless 1998.
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    Cover Story / Chanukah Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer ignites Chanukah's inner light

    Thought / Adventures In Ideas
    Rabbi Moshe Sherer     takes on Hellenism, ca. 1997

    Then & Now / Living History
    Lawrence Charap     exposes the Maccabees

    Thought / Adventures In Ideas
    Rabbi Hillel Goldberg     on the weekly Torah portion: Joseph's proactive prophecy vs. our century's totalitarian revolutionaries
    The Fruitcake of Our Affliction: Akiva and Ilene Miller relate the responsum of the renowned Halachic authority the Kringler Rav on that famous Jewish holiday, Xmas

    First Person / sIngular
    Jimmy Breslin's kept promise;
    Binyamin L. Jolkovsky's continuity epiphany; Rabbi Yaakov Bleich's remembrance of the forgotten; Julia Gorin's secularist confessions

    Aural Torah / Hear O Israel
    JWR's audiomagazine delivers the sounds of the Chanukah Lights, plus Law and Order's Steven Hill with the best of Olomeinu

    Schmooze / Reader Response
    Get in touch with JWR's editors. Give us a piece of your mind, get a preview of JWR via email!

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    The Age of Illumination
    illustration / Josh Pollack
        Machlokes / Controversy
    Virtual Jerusalem impostor threatens JWR with legal action

       Raison dEtre / Editorial

       War!

    Let's be brutally blunt: for the overwhelming majority of this generation's Jews, Judaism is pathetic -- and that's putting it mildly. It's been made as appetizing as four-month old matzah. Except unleavened crackers don't leave a bitter aftertaste, nor, for that matter, a hangover.
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    Jr. Jewish World / Just 4 Kids
    Zeidy Zalman tells on "The Snitch"; New York artist Naftali Cisner presents a children's Chanukah coloring page and coloring puzzle!

    Living / our lives
    Ellen Small on raising a gifted child
    Dr. Jacob Mermelstein fills us in on childhood depression
    Nehama C. Nahmoud on the Jews of Yemen
    Susan Rubin Weintrob on Judaism's green thumb

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    Columnists!    		Eric BreindelMona CharenLinda ChavezLeft, Right & Center
    Robert ScheerDon FederRoger Simon
    Chapters / S E R I A L
    G. Silber     presents Dovid Meyer: The Orphan From Jerusalem     		Short Tales / True Fiction
    "The Search," by Ruth Finkelstein     		Kochavim / Stargazing
    Michael Elkin     meets Chicago Hope's Mandy Patinkin     		On Media / Pop Culcha
    Elliot B. Gertel    : Fox's Ally McBeal could use a good defense

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