Winter 5762 / 2002, no. 12From the Editors:Israel, America, and the War on TerrorBy David Hazony Essays:On the National State, Part 1: Empire and AnarchyBy Yoram Hazony In defense of the beleaguered idea of the sovereignty of nations. Dispersion and the Longing for Zion, 1240-1840 By Arie Morgenstern Did the Jews in exile really long for the Holy Land? A response to the new historiography. A Constitution for Israel: Lessons from the American Experiment By Ruth Gavison What Israel can learn from the Philadelphia process. Classics:Can a Homeland Be Built in Shifts?By Levi Eshkol In the aftermath of the Six Day War, Israel's third prime minister offered his vision of Jewish volunteerism. Reviews:Assimilation’s RetreatReviewed by Jeff Jacoby Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry by Samuel G. Freedman The Legacy of Yehiel Jacob Weinberg Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Woolf Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Yehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884–1966 by Marc B. Shapiro Correspondence:Eliezer Berkovits, Evil Empires, and Zionism |
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