September/October —2005

Volume LI No. 5

EDITORIAL 2 Anniversaries • Leo Haber BOOK EXCERPT 5 Mingled Biographies and Mangled Lives: Isaac Babel—a First Glance • Jerome Charyn SYMPOSIUM: Christian-Jewish Relations, Nostra Aetate at Forty 10 Introduction • Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal 11 The Panel: Nostra Aetate: 40th Anniverssary • Dr. Eugene Fisher 12 Nostra Aetate after 40 Years • Prof. Philip A. Cunningham 13 Nostra Aetate at 40 • Sister Mary Boys 15 Nostra Aetate: A Protestant Perspective • Rev. Dr. Frank Sherman 16 Nostra Aetate after 40 Years • Rabbi Barry Cytron 17 A Copernican Revolution • Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal REVIEW ESSAY 20 Reflections on Abraham’s Promise and Michael Wyschogrod • Abigail L. Rosenthal ARTICLE 24 The Jackson-Vanik Amendment: The Back Story • Arlene Kurtis / Sandra Goldberg 29 The Question of Jewish Identity and Ethiopian Jewish Origins • Ephraim Isaac 35 Where Are the Rest of Us? • Eric Rozenman POETRY 9 I Listened • BarbaraAronowitz 19 Last Watchmaker of Kremnyetz 1943 • Lou Barrett 23 Accounts • Rochelle Mass 37 A Mitzvah? • Harris Gardner 45 On Yom Kippur Eve (Translated from the Hebrew by Varda Koch Ocker) • Zelda 47 A Biblical Experience (Translated from the Hebrew by Cindy Eisner) • Elisha Porat FICTION 38 The Wife Killer, A Folk Tale (Reprinted from Midstream’s First Issue) • I. Bashevis Singer BOOKS AND AUTHORS 44 An Act of Mercy in a Merciless World: Operation Solomon • George Jochnowitz 46 Fabulous Short Stories • Joseph Lowin