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Spring 5764 / 2004, no. 17


From the Editors:

Towards a Common Judaism
By Daniel Polisar


Essays:

Eliezer Berkovits, Theologian of Zionism
By David Hazony
Why statehood is not only vital for protecting Jewish interests, but central to Jewish faith.

Strikes Again
By Evelyn Gordon
The Jewish state has the worst labor problem in the industrialized world. Is there a way out?

Jacob Birnbaum and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry
By Yossi Klein Halevi
Forty years later, a look at the man and the movement that transformed American Jewry.


Reviews:

Zakaria’s Prophecy
Reviewed by Yuval Levin
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria

Nothing Left
Reviewed by Benjamin Balint
Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism by Douglas Rushkoff


Correspondence:

Israeli Sociology, George Steiner, Jenin and more.


From the
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Is There a Future for French Jewry?A changing political culture may leave no room for Europe's largest Jewish community.
Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of KashrutThe most famous Jewish practice is really about love and national loyalty.
Lawrence of JudeaThe champion of the Arab cause and his little-known romance with Zionism.
Far Away, So CloseHow the commandments bridge the unbridgeable gap between God and man.
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.

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