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Winter 5764 / 2004, no. 16


From the Editors:

Memory in Ruins
By David Hazony


Currents:

Autumn of Nations
By Pierre Manent
Is Europe doomed to failure?

Hatreds Entwined
By Yossi Klein Halevi
Why anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism are becoming one and the same.


Essays:

Redemption and the Power of Man
By Meir Soloveichik
Judaism and Christianity differ on man's moral capacity.

The Decline of Israeli Sociology
By Alek D. Epstein
Most scholars are too busy smashing myths of the past to pay attention to Israeli society.

Zionism’s Compatriots
By Amnon Rubinstein
A growing number of European states look a lot like Israel.

Jewish Sovereignty as a Theological Problem
By Joseph Dan
What Israel means to the rest of the world.


Reviews:

Cardinal Sins
Reviewed by Robert S. Wistrich
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

The Philosopher’s Bible
Reviewed by Benjamin Balint
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis by Leon R. Kass


Correspondence:

On George Steiner, Jenin, the ICC, and more


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Israel's Electoral ComplexIsraeli politics needs a system overhaul.
I.B. Singer's Cruel ChoiceFate and freedom for his characters, for himself.
God's Alliance with ManBy adopting the features of ancient treaties, the Bible effected a revolution in the way we relate to God and to each other.
Faces of DeathSaw, a film by James Wan; and Saw II, a film by Darren Lynn Bousman
Save the Citizens’ Army

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