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Autumn 5765 / 2004, no. 18From the Editors:Breach of FaithBy David Hazony Essays:Ecclesiastes: Fleeting and TimelessBy Ethan Dor-Shav Solomon’s confrontation with mortality. Snow White, the Ambassador, and the Aesthetics of Death By Daniel A. Doneson Art in the age of terror. Foundations of a Jewish Economic Theory By Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz Wealth, charity, and man’s quest for the divine. In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism By Alain Finkielkraut Haunted by the Holocaust, Europeans focus the blame on a familiar target. Reviews:Revel’s CauseReviewed by Claire Berlinski Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel Old Whine Reviewed by Stephen C. Pinson Art: A New History by Paul Johnson Were the Sephardim Religious? Reviewed by Avi Picard Forbidden Reminiscences: A Collection of Essays by Ella Shohat Lax Americana Reviewed by Liel Leibovitz Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson Correspondence:Soviet Jewry, Eliezer Berkovits, the Jews’ right to statehood and more. |
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 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. |
 Far Away, So CloseHow the commandments bridge the unbridgeable gap between God and man. |
 The Magician of LjubljanaThe totalitarian dreams of Slavoj Žižek. |
 The DissidentVixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger and Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes |
 Star-CrossedRosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy by Peter Eli Gordon |