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Summer 5758 / 1998, no. 4From the Editors:Dusting Off the Jewish BookshelfBy David Hazony Essays:The Jewish Origins of the Western Disobedience TraditionBy 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 GapReviewed by Adam Pruzan Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliott Abrams Correspondence:On Biblical Peace, Judicial Revolution |
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 I.B. Singer's Cruel ChoiceFate and freedom for his characters, for himself. |
 The Political Legacy of Theodor HerzlBefore the melting pot, a different vision of the Jewish state. |
 Faces of DeathSaw, a film by James Wan; and Saw II, a film by Darren Lynn Bousman |
 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. |
 The DissidentVixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger and Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes |