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Spring 5764 / 2004, no. 17


From the Editors:

Towards a Common Judaism
By Daniel Polisar


Essays:

Eliezer Berkovits, Theologian of Zionism
By David Hazony
Why statehood is not only vital for protecting Jewish interests, but central to Jewish faith.

Strikes Again
By Evelyn Gordon
The Jewish state has the worst labor problem in the industrialized world. Is there a way out?

Jacob Birnbaum and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry
By Yossi Klein Halevi
Forty years later, a look at the man and the movement that transformed American Jewry.


Reviews:

Zakaria’s Prophecy
Reviewed by Yuval Levin
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria

Nothing Left
Reviewed by Benjamin Balint
Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism by Douglas Rushkoff


Correspondence:

Israeli Sociology, George Steiner, Jenin and more.


From the
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The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look.
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee ProblemHow to solve their plight and end the half-century-long crisis.
Levi Eshkol, Forgotten HeroIsrael’s third prime minister offers a different model of Jewish leadership.
Palestinian ApocalypseParadise Now by Hany Abu-Assad
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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