Autumn 5765 / 2004, no. 18From the Editors:Breach of FaithBy David Hazony Essays:Ecclesiastes: Fleeting and TimelessBy 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 CauseReviewed 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. |
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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. |