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Spring 5765 / 2005, no. 20


From the Editors:

Israel’s Constitutional Moment
By Daniel Polisar

Unsettling
By Yossi Klein Halevi


Currents:

Philip Roth and the Great American Nightmare
By Samuel G. Freedman
Jewish fear is only part of the story.


Essays:

Is There a Future for French Jewry?
By Shmuel Trigano
A changing political culture may leave no room for Europe's largest Jewish community.

Rammstein’s Rage
By Claire Berlinski
Heavy metal and the return of the Teutonic spirit.

The Jewish Mother: A Theology
By Meir Soloveichik
A new look at matrilineal descent.


Reviews:

Let Freedom Ring
Reviewed by Jeremy Rabkin
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror by Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer

Poetically Incorrect
Reviewed by Tsur Ehrlich
Beautiful Motherland of Death: Aesthetics and Politics in the Poetry of Uri Tzvi Greenberg by Hanan Hever

Defining Divinity Down
Reviewed by Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz
Image of God: Halacha and Agada by Yair Lorberbaum

Walzer’s War
Reviewed by Michael S. Kochin
Arguing About War by Michael Walzer

Nietzsche: A Misreading
Reviewed by Werner J. Dannhauser
Nietzsche and Zion by Jacob Golomb


Correspondence:

The New IDF, Ecclesiastes, etc.


From the
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The Gaza Flotilla and the New World DisorderINGOs are trying to reshape world politics at the expense of the nation-state.
No Friends But the MountainsA visit to Kurdistan reveals an autonomous people ready for an alliance with America and Israel.
The DissidentVixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger and Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes
Cruel BritanniaAnti-Semitism in Britain has gone mainstream.
God's Alliance with ManBy adopting the features of ancient treaties, the Bible effected a revolution in the way we relate to God and to each other.

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