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Winter 5770 / 2010, no. 39


From the Editors:

A State in Need of a Spine
By Marla Braverman


Essays:

Knowledge-Nation Israel: A New Unifying Vision
By Carlo Strenger
To prosper in an interconnected world, the Jewish state must undergo a paradigm shift.

The Holocaust and the Trial of Modernity
By Yaki Menschenfreund
Radical thinkers are all too eager to portray the Final Solution as a byproduct of Western rationality.

Of God's Love and Jealousy
By Yehuda Liebes
The dangers of divine affection.


Reviews:

Hitler's Unwilling Partners
Reviewed by Boaz Neumann
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany by Francis R. Nicosia

The War that Keeps on Teaching
Reviewed by Shmuel Rosner
Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
by Gordon M. Goldstein


A Job Badly Done
Reviewed by Benjamin Kerstein
A Serious Man Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen


Correspondence:

Jews and Christian; Chabad's Messianism


From the
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Jews and the Challenge of SovereigntyIs "Jewish state" a contradiction in terms?
Ziegler's FolliesThe strange story of one UN official`s dubious affair with radicalism.
An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of AntisemitismA prominent Israeli author gets to the bottom of the world`s oldest hatred.
Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty.
Cato and Caesar

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