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Autumn 5770 / 2009, no. 38From the Editors:Switzerland’s Choice of FriendsBy Assaf Sagiv Coming to Terms with Christianity By Assaf Sagiv Essays:The Radical Meaning of ForgivenessBy Robert Enright Anyone may forgive, and anyone may be forgiven—even the worst among us. Lawrence of Judea By Martin Gilbert The champion of the Arab cause and his little-known romance with Zionism. Perhaps by the Power of Memory By Gershon Shaked What will keep the Jews in Israel, despite all the reasons to leave? Chabad’s Lost Messiah By Tomer Persico Why the Lubavitcher Rebbe believed he was the Chosen One. Reviews:Terrorism’s Mask of SanityReviewed by Michael J. Totten Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton The Inconvenient Truth About Race Reviewed by Marshall Poe The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending A Conflict in Space Reviewed by Yagil Henkin Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman Correspondence:Uri Avnery and Asa Kasher on Operation Cast Lead, and others. |
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 No Friends But the MountainsA visit to Kurdistan reveals an autonomous people ready for an alliance with America and Israel. |
 Levi Eshkol, Forgotten HeroIsrael’s third prime minister offers a different model of Jewish leadership. |
 Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty. |
 Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just WarWas Israel's conduct in its campaign against Hamas morally justified? |
 The Jews’ Right To Statehood: A DefenseA new look at Zionism from the perspective of universal rights. |