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Summer 5765 / 2005, no. 21


From the Editors:

Giving Herzl His Due
By Ella Florsheim


Currents:

The Religion of Humanity and the Sin of the Jews
Europeans remake the Jews in their own image.


Essays:

Judaism and the Modern State
By Yoram Hazony
Why Hobbes learned Hebrew.

The Political Legacy of Theodor Herzl
By Natan Sharansky
Before the melting pot, a different vision of the Jewish state.

A Return to Defensible Borders
By Dan Diker
Time to revive the classic security concept.

Cruel Britannia
By Robert S. Wistrich
Anti-Semitism in Britain has gone mainstream.


Reviews:

Golden State Warriors
Reviewed by Samuel G. Freedman
GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation by Deborah Dash Moore

Star-Crossed
Reviewed by Jerome E. Copulsky
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy by Peter Eli Gordon

Shades of Enlightenment
Reviewed by Jonathan Marks
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

American Idyll
Reviewed by Jerome A. Chanes
American Judaism: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna

Getting to Denmark
Reviewed by Tod Lindberg
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Francis Fukuyama


Correspondence:

Robert Bork, Aaron Levine, and others


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The DissidentVixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger and Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes
Israel and the Palestinians: A New StrategyThe former IDF chief of staff proposes a different approach to dealing with an old conflict.
Orde Wingate: Friend Under FireThe new historians take aim at the father of the IDF.
Israel's Electoral ComplexIsraeli politics needs a system overhaul.
Palestinian ApocalypseParadise Now by Hany Abu-Assad

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