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Winter 5768 / 2008, no. 31From the Editors:Civilians FirstBy Assaf Sagiv Only in Israel does concern for the safety of soldiers override the state’s obligation to defend its civilians. Essays:Zionism's New ChallengeBy Assaf Inbari Why we need a Jewish melting pot. Far Away, So Close By Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz How the commandments bridge the unbridgeable gap between God and man. Israel's Electoral Complex By Amotz Asa-El Israeli politics needs a system overhaul. Reviews:Class ActReviewed by James R. Otteson The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre N. McCloskey An Orthodox Revolution? Reviewed by Aharon Rose Internal Popular Discourse in Israeli Haredi Society by Kimmy Caplan Courting Lady Liberty Reviewed by Henry Olsen Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government by Charles Fried Kaddish for the Disappeared Reviewed by Marla Braverman The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander Correspondence:Aaron Ciechanover on Israeli education; David Novak on Jewish marriage. |
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 Orde Wingate: Friend Under FireThe new historians take aim at the father of the IDF. |
 The Spectacles of Isaiah BerlinThe twentieth century's greatest liberal was anything but a pluralist |
 Is There a Future for French Jewry?A changing political culture may leave no room for Europe's largest Jewish community. |
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 The Road to Democracy in the Arab WorldLiberalism has deep roots in the Middle East, if we know where to look. |