September/October 2003

Volume XXXXIX No. 6

ARTICLE 2 9/11 Two Years Later: Implications for a Mideast Peace • Daniel Gordis 7 Who Tarnished Saladin’s Eagle? • Harold Brackman HISTORY 9 “The Doctors’ Plot” • Samson Madievski RELIGION 14 What Must A Jew Believe? What Can A Modern Jew Believe? • Gilbert S. Rosenthal ARTS AND LETTERS 17 Inside the Hornet’s Head • Jerome Charyn 23 Leslie Fiedler’s “Lifelong Identity Crisis” • Milton Birnbaum 26 A Great Event in Jewish Music: A Concerto for Orchestra by Isaac Schwartz • Boris A. Kushner ISRAEL 28 The Last Will and Testament of Theodor Herzl • Ariel Feldestein 33 And Then Golda Hugged Me • J. R. Goldberg FICTION 36 Tashlich on Coney Island Sand • Leo Haber POETRY 6 O Israel • Yala Korwin 13 Faces • Liz Rosenberg 22 The Garden • Chayym Zeldis 27 Reality • Naomi Z. Katcher 32 I Bless You • Barbara Hantman 35 Tashlich • Lou Barrett 42 More Than Soup • Ben Gedalya 45 Vayyera (Genesis 18-22) • Esther Cameron BOOKS AND AUTHORS 41 Sharon: Israel’s Warrior-Politician, by Anita Miller, Jordan Miller, and Sigalit Zetouni • Arnold Ages 43 Hiding Places: A Father and his sons Retrace their Family’s Escape from the Holocaust, by Daniel Asa Rose • Curt Leviant 44 Judaism and Vegetarianism, by Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. (New Revised Edition) • Rena Lee LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 46 David N. Schwartz, Ralph de Toledano, Michael Benazon, Robert Sandler, Michael Zimmerman