Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

September/October 2002 Volume XXXXVIII No. 6
EDITORIAL
2 September 11: A Turning Point • Leo Haber
ARTICLE
5 Ulpan Akiva • Efrem Sigel
11 Can Islam Be Hijacked?: The Threat of Bin Laden • Leonard B. Guttman
16 Islamic Mythmaking and the Arab-Israel Conflict • Aryeh Newman
18 Who Are The Real Cannibals? • Harold Brackman
ESSAY
23 Words and Reality • Mordecai Roshwald
TOPIC
27 Will Shock and Shame Bring Change to France? • Robert B. Goldman
28 An Open Letter to the People of Switzerland • Louis Renι Beres
ISRAEL
30 Safed, Israel: Mystic Echoes from the Middle Ages • Todd Pitock
MIDRASH
33 Hellenism vs. Hebraism on the Inevitability of Tragedy:
Studying the Cain and Joseph Stories • Lippman Bodoff

FICTION
37 Mazal’s Day • Gloria Goldreich
POETRY
4 The Late Year • Marge Piercy
10 Veined-Garden • Valerie Wohlfeld
15 I Am A Jew • Harris B. Gardner
26 A Guide At The Synagogue Of Rome • Charles Fishman
29 An Alternate View Of Apples • Ben-David Seligman
36 Eve’s Mirror • Valerie Wohlfeld


BOOKS AND AUTHORS
41 9-11, by Noam Chomsky • George Jochnowitz
43 Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam,
by John L. Esposito • Jack Fischel
44 The Double Bond: Primo Levi, by Carole Angier • Arnold Ages


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
46 Heshey Zelcer, Mark Zelcer, C. Parens, David Saks