Winter 5765 / 2005, no. 19From the Editors:Save the Citizens’ ArmyBy Michael B. Oren, Benjamin Balint Currents:Naomi Shemer, 1930-2004By Yishai Haetzni Remembering Israel’s first lady of song. Essays:Machiavelli’s MoralsBy Hillay Zmora The “Prince of Darkness” on human virtue. Globalization: Just Do It By Assaf Sagiv Does Nike make a better world? God’s Beloved: A Defense of Chosenness By Meir Soloveichik Jews and Christians disagree about what love is. The Hope of Marseille By Claire Berlinski France’s most Muslim city offers a surprising model in the war on anti-Semitism. Reviews:Idealism in AshesReviewed by Jerome E. Copulsky German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses by Michael Mack Intelligence Failure Reviewed by Samuel J. Spector Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke Waters of Babylon Reviewed by Yitzhak Dahan The Arab-Jews: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity by Yehouda Shenhav Inferno Reviewed by Daniel A. Doneson The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny by Maurice Joly (John S. Waggoner, ed. and trans.) His Body, Ourselves Reviewed by Benjamin Balint Abraham’s Promise by Michael Wyschogrod (R. Kendall Soulen, ed.) Correspondence:Jewish economics, biblical archaeology, and more |
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No Friends But the MountainsA visit to Kurdistan reveals an autonomous people ready for an alliance with America and Israel. |
Star-CrossedRosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy by Peter Eli Gordon |
Israel's Electoral ComplexIsraeli politics needs a system overhaul. |
Job’s Path to EnlightenmentA new interpretation of the Bible's most enigmatic book. |
Far Away, So CloseHow the commandments bridge the unbridgeable gap between God and man. |