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magazine, The Jewish Mon-
thly, features a consumer's
guide to 14 Haggadahs.
Reviewer Penny Kaganoff is
unstinting in her praise,
fearless in her criticism.
Among those haggadahs
reviewed:
• The Maxwell House Hag-
gadah: Distributed free by
the coffee company, these are
"decidedly no frills, with on-
ly a few elementary pictures
and no commentary."
• Passover Haggadah,
published by Artscroll:
"Seder directions are com-
prehensive, but sexist and
basic terms are not translated
into English... Many inter-
pretations will offend
readers."
• The New Union Hag-
gadah, distributed by Central
Conference of American Rab-
bis: "Marred by Leonard
Baskin's graceless water-
colors... The English transla-
tion, but not the Hebrew, is
nonsexist."
• Feast of Freedom, publish-
ed by the United Synago. gue
Book Service: "The most
practical guide for the Seder
table" is this Conservative
text.
The Heck
With Hell?
Maybe So
"Jews have been through
\D the Holocaust. There's just no
need to talk about hell."
This explanation about the
disappearance of hell from
Jewish theology appears in a
Newsweek article about
Americans' beliefs in heaven
and hell. It came from a
Beverly Hills rabbi, Daniel
Landes. Given the locale of
Landes' congregation, it is no
surprise that he knows more
about heaven than about that
other H-word.
But according to a Gallup
Poll commissioned by
Newsweek, Jews are not alone
in focusing on heaven, not
hell. Seventy-seven percent of
those polled believe in
heaven. Only 58 percent
believe in hell. Seventy-six
percent thought they had "a
good or excellent chance" of
going to heaven. Six percent
thought they had the same
odds of going to hell.
"If hell has, for all its old in-
tents and purposes, disap-
peared from modern con-
sciousness," asked Newsweek
writer Kenneth L. Woodward,
"can heaven be far behind?"
Far behind, apparently
thinks Rabbi Terry Bard,
director of pastoral services at
Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.
"Dead is dead," he said, and
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children and a legacy of good
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