February/March—2005

Volume LI No. 2

ARTICLE 2 Palestinian Politics Put to the Test • Barry Rubin 6 A Culture of Hate Based on “Jihad and Martyrdom” Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Schoolbooks Today • David G. Littman 12 The Struggle for the Soul of Islam • Mark Silverberg 14 Jihad Means Holy War • Andrew G. Bostom 16 The Fallacy of Root Causes • Jacob Chinitz 17 Israel and the Threat from Iran’s Nuclear Program • Robert O. Freedman SHOAH 20 American Jewry’s Response to the Holocaust: Some Reflections from the Last Eyewitnesses • Rafael Medoff 22 Chroniclers of the Shoah: Poland’s Jewish and Christian Poet-Witnesses • Yala Korwin 25 Two Holocaust Survivors and Two Rock Stars • Harold Ticktin 28 Ashdod Memories • Amos Turk MIDRASH 30 Moses, the Bible’s Unsung Prophet • Saul Scheidlinger FICTION 33 In Nisan, the Month of Spring • Rena Lee IN MEMORIAM 21 Murray Zuckoff, Zichrono Livrachah • Leo Haber HONOR ROLL 27 Second List of Contributors to Midstream POETRY 13 About Arthur Miller (1915-2005) • Leo Haber 24 Born In America • Alicia Ostriker 29 Conversive Vav • Yehuda Khaver 32 The Aftermath of Prophecy • Aviya Kushner 39 “Your Golden Hair, Margareta” • Myron Ernst 45 Telling • Davi Walders REVIEW ESSAY 36 Six Million Stories—All Different, All the Same • George Jochnowitz 40 The Jewish Study Bible: A Genuine Need • Philip Stern BOOKS AND AUTHORS 44 The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann, by Hanna Yablonka • Jack Riemer 46 The Origins of the Final Solution, by Christopher R. Browning • Arnold Ages