Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

May/June 2000 Volume XXXXVI No. 4
ARTICLE
Online Feature:The Final Status of Peace Talks David S. Bedein
ESSAY
Edward Said and The Modern Language AssociationEdward Alexander
Bergen-Belsen Revisited ... Sam E. Bloch
MEMOIR
Reminiscences from Vienna Benno Weiser Varon
RELIGION
Biblical Misperceptions Harold Ticktin
POPE JOHN PAUL II'S VISIT TO ISRAEL
Two Popes and John Paul II (Lolek) Solomon Goldman
The Pope in Jerusalem: Why the Jews are not HappyAlan J. Yuter
From Cross to Swastika: The Theology of Hate Albert Wachtel
ISRAEL
Letter from Israel: Income Inequality Rears Its Ugly HeadRuth Seligman
HISTORY
The Jewish Kingdom of Himyar (Yemen): Its Rise and Fall ¥ Joseph Adler
TOPIC
The Mitzvah Tank and the Parking Ticket Sanford Pinsker
The Aryan Christ Kurt D. Singer
FICTION
The Case of the Persecuted Cow: An Irish-Jewish WhimsyDavid Marcus
ARTS AND LETTERS
Byron's "Rabbi": Isaac Nathan and the Hebrew MelodiesJoy Silver Leffler
POETRY
Bind Them For A Sign Lou Barrett
Eliezer Ben Yehudah in Jerusalem Leo Haber
Newcomers Abigail Kolker
Thank You, Einstein Ruth Allison Coates
Jerusalem Atar Hadari
Birthing Rochelle Mass
The 80-Year-Old Abbott Small
Escaping Sodom: What To Do When G-D Knocks Susan Terris
Mother's Hand Abraham Linik
Calling Michael S. Glaser
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow Curt Leviant
Dog Heart: A Memoir, by Breyten Breytenbach Haim Chertok
A New Fiedler Reader, by Leslie Fiedler Richard Kostelanetz
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul, by Yoram Hazony Shmuel Ben-Gad
Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective, by Nissim Rejwan Arnold Ages