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misgivings about a review
that Moment published in
October of Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin's Jewish Literacy.
Written by Noam M.M.
Neusner, a staff reporter at
the Detroit Jewish Jewish
News, the highly critical re-
view claimed the book was
merely a collection of lists,
lacked "a coherent struc-
ture," and did "not make
Jewish facts interesting,
which they are."
The rabbi's book, stated
Mr. Neusner, "will never
release Jews from the
mistaken notion that being
Jewish means simply know-
ing facts."
In Moment's current issue,
Ms. Singer asserts in her
column that the first version
of Mr. Neusner's review was
"grossly unfair" and his se-
cond version — the one Mo-
ment published — was
"more civil in tone, ... but,
to me, still inadequate."
At that point, Ms. Singer
"caved," and "the principle
of not censoring Moment's
authors won out ... Ever
since, I have been troubled
by this decision."
Ms. Singer said that she
feared Mr. Neusner's review
"had damaged a valuable
work."
This month's column, she
said, marked the first time
she had publicly denounced
a review that had appeared
in Moment.
"I hope I will not do this
again," she said.
"Occasionally, we get a cut-
and-slash review, and we tell
the reviewer we can't use it.
Or I may go back to a re-
viewer and ask him to delete
a certain passage. But we
usually publish almost
anything that we ask for."
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