November/December 2004

Volume L No. 7

EDITORIAL 2 An Urgent Note to Our Readers • Leo Haber THE OLD AND THE NEW ANTISEMITISM REVISITED 3 One Small Step: Is the U.N. Finally Ready to Get Serious about Antisemitism? • Anne Bayefsky 6 Europe, Antisemitism, and Other Challenges • Marcello Pera 8 The Jihadist Challenge • Robert S. Wistrich 11 Confronting Anti-Israel Attitudes on Contemporary College Campuses • Robert David Johnson 15 The New Antisemitism • Kalman Sultanik ARTICLE 18 Roots and Wings: Jerusalem and Zionism • Arthur Cohn 21 The Gospel According To Mel Gibson • Herta Newman RELIGION 23 “What is Hanukkah?” • Robert Goldenberg 25 Hanukkah: A Sacred Moment, a Secular Message • Joysa Maben Winter FICTION 27 Gloves • Ivan Prashker ARTS AND LETTERS 32 Intermarriage in Anthony Trollope’s Fiction • Milton Kerker POETRY 5 That Old Man • B. R. Strahan 7 Kristallnacht: November 9-10, 1938 • Eli Kavon 24 Yom Kipper: Breaking the Fast • Larry Rubin 40 Grieving • Leonard Orr 44 M’kadesh • Julia Watts Belser BOOKS AND AUTHORS 34 Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings, by Sheila Delany • Haim Chertok 36 And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, by Steve Oney • Frederic Cople Jaher 39 Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism, edited by Ron Rosenbaum • Arnold Ages 41 The Case For Israel, by Alan Dershowitz • Henry Delfiner 43 Terror and Liberalism, by Paul Berman • Pierre Ferrand