Winter 5770 / 2010, no. 39

From the Editors:

A State in Need of a Spine
By Marla Braverman

Essays:

Knowledge-Nation Israel: A New Unifying Vision
By Carlo Strenger
To prosper in an interconnected world, the Jewish state must undergo a paradigm shift.

The Holocaust and the Trial of Modernity
By Yaki Menschenfreund
Radical thinkers are all too eager to portray the Final Solution as a byproduct of Western rationality.

Of God's Love and Jealousy
By Yehuda Liebes
The dangers of divine affection.

Reviews:

Hitler's Unwilling Partners
Reviewed by Boaz Neumann
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany by Francis R. Nicosia

The War that Keeps on Teaching
Reviewed by Shmuel Rosner
Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
by Gordon M. Goldstein


A Job Badly Done
Reviewed by Benjamin Kerstein
A Serious Man Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

Correspondence:

Jews and Christian; Chabad's Messianism