May/June 2002

Volume XXXXVIII No. 4

ARTICLE 2 Going It Alone Against International Evil • Harold Brackman 5 Radical Islam vs. Academic Freedom: One Example • Edward Alexander 7 The Arabs of Israel: Between Conflicting Identities and Dual Loyalties • Julian Schvindlerman TOPIC 11 The Museum of the History of Polish Jews • Wladyslaw Bartoszewski 13 India and Israel • David Rodman ARTS AND LETTERS 15 Stefan Heym—He Shouldn’t Have Been A Communist • Richard Kostelanetz 17 Jewish Themes in Disraeli’s Fiction • Cecil Bloom REVIEW ESSAY 18 Etz Hayim—Torah For Our Times: Conservative Judaism’s Spiritual Response to Judaism’s Canon • Alan J. Yuter RELIGION 22 Balaam in Scripture and in Inscription • Philip Stern HISTORY 25 “To Bigotry No Sanction”: The Role of American Jews in the Revolution • Joseph L. Andrews, Jr. 29 Normandy • George Miller FICTION 31 “Don’t You Know There’s A War On?” • Jacob Jaffe POETRY 6 A Wait In The Garden • Lou Barrett 12 A Plea To Reb Nahman Braslaver • Menahem Stern 14 Long Distance Call • Harris Gardner 17 Mitzvot • Alyssa A. Lappen 24 Rounding Third • Shel Krakofsky 30 Night • Gary Pacernick 34 Summer Reign • Barbara Schweitzer 42 To Die At The Springs Of El-Hamma • Elisha Porat 43 And God Laughs • Terri D. Klein BOOKS AND AUTHORS 35 The Levy Family and Monticello 1834-1923, by Melvin I. Urofsky • Virginia A. Black 37 Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel & America, ed. Deborah Dash Moore, S. Ilan Troen • Joel G. Magid 39 New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970, by Eli Lederhendler • Jack Fischel 41 Returning Lost Loves, by Yehoshua Kenaz • Joseph Lowin 43 Biblical Women Unbound: Counter Tales, by Norma Rosen; and Sisters At Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, by Jill Hammer • Carol Ochs 44 What Went Wrong:: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, by Bernard Lewis • Nissim Rejwan LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 46 Lester Lichter, Esq., Varese Layzer, Norman Berdichevsky