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Autumn 5765 / 2004, no. 18


From the Editors:

Breach of Faith
By David Hazony


Essays:

Ecclesiastes: Fleeting and Timeless
By Ethan Dor-Shav
Solomon’s confrontation with mortality.

Snow White, the Ambassador, and the Aesthetics of Death
By Daniel A. Doneson
Art in the age of terror.

Foundations of a Jewish Economic Theory
By Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz
Wealth, charity, and man’s quest for the divine.

In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism
By Alain Finkielkraut
Haunted by the Holocaust, Europeans focus the blame on a familiar target.


Reviews:

Revel’s Cause
Reviewed by Claire Berlinski
Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel

Old Whine
Reviewed by Stephen C. Pinson
Art: A New History by Paul Johnson

Were the Sephardim Religious?
Reviewed by Avi Picard
Forbidden Reminiscences: A Collection of Essays by Ella Shohat

Lax Americana
Reviewed by Liel Leibovitz
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson


Correspondence:

Soviet Jewry, Eliezer Berkovits, the Jews’ right to statehood and more.


From the
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The Political Legacy of Theodor HerzlBefore the melting pot, a different vision of the Jewish state.
The Gaza Flotilla and the New World DisorderINGOs are trying to reshape world politics at the expense of the nation-state.
Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just WarWas Israel's conduct in its campaign against Hamas morally justified?
Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty.
Israel and the Palestinians: A New StrategyThe former IDF chief of staff proposes a different approach to dealing with an old conflict.

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