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Autumn 5772 / 2011, no. 46


From the Editors:

The Jews' Oldest Enemies
By Assaf Sagiv




Essays:

Islamotopia: The Muslim Brotherhood's Idea of Democracy
By Uriya Shavit
Why liberty can't withstand the political rule of the Koran.

Judaism as a First Language
By Moshe Koppel
An analogy that can explain a lot about the evolution of our cultural heritage--and its worrisome decline.

The Relevance of Rabbinic Leadership
By Yedidia Z. Stern
Rabbis have guided and inspired their people through the worst of times. What prevents them from doing the same today?


Reviews:

One Big Thing
Reviewed by David Heyd

'Justice for Hedgehogs' by Ronald Dworkin



A Remorseless Apology
Reviewed by Boaz Neumann
'The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives' by Gilbert Achcar


Correspondence:

Menachem Kellner, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, and Kenneth Seeskin on biblical love; Nathan Lopes Cardozo on halachic reform




From the
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The UN’s Palestinian Refugee ProblemHow to solve their plight and end the half-century-long crisis.
Levi Eshkol, Forgotten HeroIsrael’s third prime minister offers a different model of Jewish leadership.
The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look.
The Magician of LjubljanaThe totalitarian dreams of Slavoj Žižek.
Palestinian ApocalypseParadise Now by Hany Abu-Assad

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