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Summer 5770 / 2010, no. 41


From the Editors:

Now I Am Become Life
By Assaf Sagiv


Essays:

The Curious Case of Jewish Democracy
By Amnon Rubinstein
Does Israel suffer from a split-personality disorder?

The Myth of Ellis Island and Other Tales of Origin
By Dara Horn
On the Jewish tradition of changing names and inventing roots.

Pharaoh’s War with the Israelites: The Untold Story
By Israel Knohl
An enigmatic psalm points to a long-forgotten battle at the dawn of our nation’s history.


Reviews:

That Old-Time Religion
Reviewed by Elliot R. Wolfson
Judaism: A Way of Being by David Gelernter

The Gentle Totalist
Reviewed by Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews by Jonathan Frankel

The Biblical Century
Reviewed by Yoram Hazony
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought by Eric Nelson


Correspondence:

Chabad's Messianism and Israeli Radicals


From the
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Lawrence of JudeaThe champion of the Arab cause and his little-known romance with Zionism.
Ziegler's FolliesThe strange story of one UN official`s dubious affair with radicalism.
The Magician of LjubljanaThe totalitarian dreams of Slavoj Žižek.
The Jews’ Right To Statehood: A DefenseA new look at Zionism from the perspective of universal rights.
The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look.

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