2 The Thirty-Fourth World Zionist Congress • Leo Haber
 

ARTICLE
4 Can the Middle Eastern Stalemate Be Broken? • Michael Benazon
8 On Gay Marches, the Peace Process, and Others • Adrian Mirvish
10 The Murder of “Gandhi” and the Assassination of Terrorists • Louis René Beres

ISRAEL
12 My Morale Problem • P. David Hornik
14 “Normal” Life in Israel • Helen Freedman
ESSAY
17 The Search for a “National Language”—The Examples of
Hebrew, Irish, and Norwegian • Norman Berdichevsky
RELIGION
22 Thoughts on Reading the Akedah—Again • Lippman Bodoff
24 The Wit and Practicality of the Talmud • Ralph de Toledano
FICTION
26 Our Family Jewels • Susan Thomas

TOPIC
29 The Dreyfus Affair • Joseph Adler
33 Antisemitism in France: Déjà vu? • Richard Millman
POETRY
3 Noah • Janet Ruth Heller
11 Life In Our Time • David Napolin
16 B’Raysheet/Genesis 3:24 • Eve Wolf
16 B’Raysheet/Genesis 4:5 • Eve Wolf
21 Shechina • Alyssa A. Lappen
25 At the Well, a Sequel • Steven Sher
35 Tribute to Yehuda Amichai • Rifkah Goldberg
39 To Place a Pebble • J.R. Goldberg
41 What the Returning Raven Said • Leo Haber
47 On Saba’s Painting of Moses Seeing the
Promised Land (Lines On Dots) • Adam Seelig


BOOKS AND AUTHORS
36 Emigré New York: French Intellectuals in Manhattan, 1940-1944,
by Jeffrey Mehlman • Joseph Sungolowsky
37 Jews in American Politics, eds. L. Sandy Maisel and Ira N. Forman • Milton Birnbaum
40 Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America,
by Martin Kramer • Edward Alexander
42 A History of Shalom: The Calling of Christians and Jews
by a Covenanting God, by Philip A. Cunningham • Gilbert S. Rosenthal
44 The Same Sea, by Amos Oz • Leslie Cohen/Elvera Herbstman


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
46 Leon W. Wells, Fritz G. Cohen, Niel Hirschson