Spring 5765 / 2005, no. 20

From the Editors:

Israel’s Constitutional Moment
By Daniel Polisar

Unsettling
By Yossi Klein Halevi

Currents:

Philip Roth and the Great American Nightmare
By Samuel G. Freedman
Jewish fear is only part of the story.

Essays:

Is There a Future for French Jewry?
By Shmuel Trigano
A changing political culture may leave no room for Europe's largest Jewish community.

Rammstein’s Rage
By Claire Berlinski
Heavy metal and the return of the Teutonic spirit.

The Jewish Mother: A Theology
By Meir Soloveichik
A new look at matrilineal descent.

Reviews:

Let Freedom Ring
Reviewed by Jeremy Rabkin
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror by Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer

Poetically Incorrect
Reviewed by Tsur Ehrlich
Beautiful Motherland of Death: Aesthetics and Politics in the Poetry of Uri Tzvi Greenberg by Hanan Hever

Defining Divinity Down
Reviewed by Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz
Image of God: Halacha and Agada by Yair Lorberbaum

Walzer’s War
Reviewed by Michael S. Kochin
Arguing About War by Michael Walzer

Nietzsche: A Misreading
Reviewed by Werner J. Dannhauser
Nietzsche and Zion by Jacob Golomb

Correspondence:

The New IDF, Ecclesiastes, etc.