January 2003

Volume XXXXIX No. 1

SYMPOSIUM: A NEW CHRISTIAN DOCUMENT ON CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS 2 Introduction • Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal 2 The Document: A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People • A Statement by the Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations, September 1, 2002 5 The Panel: A Reaction to the Document: A Sacred Obligation • Rev. Guy Massie 6 Relationships and Obligations: The Future of Jewish-Christian Dialogue • Rabbi Michael A. Signer 8 A Document For This Season: Response to A Sacred Obligation • Rev. Jay T. Rock 10 A Sacred Obligation That Engenders New Hope • Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal 11 The Respondents: Response to Commentaries on A Sacred Obligation • John C. Merkle 12 Response to Commentaries on A Sacred Obligation • Joseph B. Tyson EDITORIAL 14 Abba Eban, z’’l • Leo Haber ARTICLE 16 Muslim Antisemitism: A Clear and Present Danger • Robert S. Wistrich 18 Confronting Atrocious Evil • Yehezkel Dror ISRAEL 21 Back to Jerusalem: A Political Tourist in the Holy Land • Todd Pitock RELIGION 23 On Chanukah and its Miracle • Eugene Korn 26 The 72-Lettered Name of God • Curt Leviant MIDRASH 28 The Tower of Babel: From Destruction to Dispersion • Lippman Bodoff ESSAY 32 Freud, the Law, and Michelangelo’s Moses • Robert L. Lippman FICTION 36 Born Again • Charles Rammelkamp REVIEW ESSAY 38 Six Days that Shook the Middle East • David Rodman POETRY 15 Making The Year New • Marge Piercy 17 The Get • Charles Fishman 22 Two Haiku From Israel • F. M. Black 25 Believing Is Also A Mystery • I. Century 31 Sunflower • Barbara Aronowitz 35 To Dream In Hebrew • Leslie Cohen 41 “Bo” (Exodus 10:1-13:16) • Esther Cameron BOOKS AND AUTHORS 42 Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge, by Alan M. Dershowitz • Arnold Ages 43 Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses, by Bruce S. Feiler • Joel Streicker