Midstream- A Monthly Jewish Review

January 2004 Volume L No. 1
Online Feature:TWO RESPONSES TO PROFESSOR TONY JUDT:
2 My Anachronistic Home • Daniel Gordis
4 Thinking the Unthinkable • R. Ben
EDITORIAL
7 Abraham J. Karp, z”l • Leo Haber
ARTICLE
8 On Hamas “Freedom Fighters”: The View from International Law • Louis René Beres
ISRAEL
10 Israel and Weapons of Mass Destruction after the Iraq War • David Rodman
13 Israel, The Jewish States of Minds • Eric Rozenman
MIDRASH
16 Jewish Visions of the End • Robert Goldenberg

ARTS AND LETTERS
19 Early Broadway’s Un-Jewish Jews • Jerome Charyn
26 Henry James on the Jewish Scene • Milton Kerker
FICTION
30 Winter Lessons • Erika Dreifus
REVIEW ESSAY
33 Norman Podhoretz: Not a Prophet But the Son of Prophets • Arnold Ages
36 Diaspora Cultures: Jewish Creativity and Doom • Marvin Maurer
POETRY
9 Even Now In Jerusalem • Raphael Rothstein
12 Jerusalem Bus • Rodger Kamenetz
15 Instead of a Wedding • Charles Fishman
25 Teenage Years • Liz Rosenberg
35 Spelunker • Yehuda Khaver
40 Ascent of Woman • Harris Gardner
42 Havdalah Prayer • Ellen Steinbaum
46 Thread of Blue • I. Century

BOOKS AND AUTHORS
41 Studies in the Meaning of Judaism, by Eugene Borowitz • Gilbert S. Rosenthal
43 Meaning & Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets,
by Gary Pacernick • Ada Jill Schneider
44 The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s
Most Famous Scientist, by Fred Jerome • Pierre Ferrand


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
47 Jerome S. Shipman