Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

February/March 2002 Volume XXXXVIII No. 2
SEPTEMBER 11TH: FURTHER CONSEQUENCES
2 Israel Is Not Yet Secure   • Henry L. Feingold
3 Jewish and Realist Impulses in Israeli Foreign Policy • David Rodman
7 The Road to September 11th • Jack Fischel
9 Why Terrorism? • George Jochnowitz
11 Common Sense in Profiling • Bruce J. Terris

ISRAEL
13 A Political Fantasy For Our Time • Noah J. Efron
ARTS AND LETTERS
16 Immanuel of Rome • Joseph Adler
20 Behind the Masks of Fernando Pessoa • Ada Jill Schneider
RELIGION
24 Why Only The Orthodox Can Avoid Intermarriage • David Saks
26 Halacha: Divine or Human? • Gilbert S. Rosenthal
30 Rabbinical Education for the 21st Century • Lewis D. Solomon
FICTION
34 Next Year • Bernard B. Cohen
37 Leaving The House With Hani • P. David Hornik

POETRY
8 On First Seeing Mount Tabor: July, 1954 • Deborah B. Karp
10 The Passover Angel • Elaine R. Warick
15 To Dream in Hebrew • Leslie Cohen
19 A Hero Of His Time • Abbott Small
23 Kaddish for Allen, Emily, and Fernando • Yehuda Khaver
25 Vacation (forYehuda Amichai) • Adam Schonbrun
29 Why This Night Is Different • Alisha Goldblatt
33 Queen Vashti • Debra Vazquez
42 Dayenu • Michael S. Glaser


BOOKS AND AUTHORS
41 Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy,
of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Vol. I, by David Hartman • Arnold Ages
43 Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City,
by Bernard Wasserstein • David Weinstein
45 Jerusalem in America’s Foreign Policy 1947-1997,
by Shlomo Slonim • Jerold S. Auerbach
46 Arabs Face the Modern World: Religious, Cultural, and Political Responses
to the West, and The Many Faces of Islam: Perspectives on a Resurgent
Civilization, by Nissim Rejwan • Sasson Somekh


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
47 Heskel M. Haddad, MD