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Summer 5758 / 1998, no. 4


From the Editors:

Dusting Off the Jewish Bookshelf
By David Hazony


Essays:

The Jewish Origins of the Western Disobedience Tradition
By Yoram Hazony
Civil disobedience did not, as we are taught, begin with Socrates and Antigone, but with a Hebrew Bible that rejected the supremacy of human law.

How the Government’s Attorney Became Its General
By Evelyn Gordon
And now, for the Israeli judiciary's latest trick: Expropriating the attorney-general

Oslo, the Bomb, and Other Home Remedies
By Amnon Lord
Over a political career spanning five decades, Shimon Peres has fought for the idea that inexorable human progress will solve everything, real soon.


Reviews:

Closing the Christian Gap
Reviewed by Adam Pruzan
Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliott Abrams


Correspondence:

On Biblical Peace, Judicial Revolution


From the
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Nietzsche: A MisreadingNietzsche and Zion by Jacob Golomb
Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty.
Levi Eshkol, Forgotten HeroIsrael’s third prime minister offers a different model of Jewish leadership.
The Gaza Flotilla and the New World DisorderINGOs are trying to reshape world politics at the expense of the nation-state.
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.

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