Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

September/October 2001 Volume XXXXVII No. 6
EDITORIAL
2 Lessons from the New Day of Infamy  Leo Haber
ARTICLE
4 Zionism, Racism, and the Distortions of the Durban Conference  Michael Melchior
7 Zionist Incompetence  Yehezkel Dror
8 No to Unilateral Separation  Shlomo Gazit
9 A Palestinian Return to Nowhere  Leonard A. Cole
ESSAY
13 The Totalitarian Collision: The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry  Irving Louis Horowitz
 
ISRAEL
17 The United States, Israel, and the Yom Kippur War  David Rodman
20 Hazony’s Forgotten Ally: The Jewish Army Committee  H. David Kirk
MIDRASH
24 Themes of Betrayal and Deception in Genesis  Moshe Dann
 
RELIGION
27 The Ordeal of a Skeptic  Mordecai Roshwald
FICTION
33 May his Memory be for a Blessing  Laura Bernell
ARTS AND LETTERS
Two Views of Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology:
37 A Feast For All Tastes—Almost  Milton Birnbaum
39 A Minority’s Minorities  Richard Kostelanetz
41 Lessing, Voltaire, and the Jews  Pierre Ferrand
44 John Adams takes on the Ghost of Voltaire  Oscar Kraines
 
POETRY
12 Altars  Gwendolyn Carr
19 Yahrzeit  Ellen Steinbaum
26 Yad  Ada Jill Schneider
32 The Sound of the Shofar  Jody LaGreca
36 Day of Atonement  Leo Haber
40 Days of Awe  Morton Manilla
48 The Modern Spicebox: The Marriage of Beads and Besamim  Wendy S. Abramowitz
 
 
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
45 Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times,
by Steven E. Aschheim  Arnold Ages
47 The Banality of Indifference: Zionism & the Armenian Genocide,
by Yair Auron, translated from the Hebrew by Maggie Bar-Tur  Jonathan Eric Lewis