May/June 2001	Volume XXXXVII No. 4

editorÕs note Leo Haber ARTICLE What Went Wrong With Oslo? Dan Margalit ÒStrategic BalanceÓ in the Middle East: An Injurious Concept Louis RenŽ Beres ESSAY A Jew in Rome: Christian Antisemitism and the Holocaust (Part 2) Richard S. Ellis MEMOIR Warum Varon? Benno Weiser Varon One Passover in Odessa: A Memoir Emil A. Draitser RELIGION Keeping the Torah Before Sinai David Saks MIDRASH Blended Families: Sympathizing with Sarah David J. Zucker TOPIC: TWO VIEWS ON FREUD FreudÕs Hypothesis that the Jews Killed Moses Robert L. Lippman Freud and the ÒMurderÓ of Moses Philip Stern ISRAEL The War of Attrition David Rodman The Best Response Rebecca Sugar ARTS AND LETTERS An Interview with Naomi Ragen Jenny Weil The Merchant of Venice and ShylockÕs ÒChristian ProblemÓ Jack D. Spiro FICTION Smart in Everything Marcia Slatkin POETRY Confluence David E. Blum Peninnah Janet Ruth Heller Dad, The Psychiatrist Harris B. Gardner Me as Ken Been Cain Jeff Friedman Untitled Miriam Chaikin This, My Incarnation Alyssa A. Lappen BOOKS AND AUTHORS The Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews, by Khalid Dur‡n Nissim Rejwan Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel, by Jerold S. Auerbach Edward Alexander Diary of an Adulterous Woman: Including an ABC Directory that offers alphabetical tidbits and surprises, by Curt Leviant Doris Zames Fleischer The Guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem, by Amnon Cohen N.B. Argaman Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere, by Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky George Jochnowitz StalinÕs Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, edited with an introduction by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov Arnold Ages LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Eugene J. Fisher, Edwin M. Ellman, William Nicholls