January/February — 2006

Volume LII No. 1

EDITORIAL 2 What Do We Not Publish in Midstream? • Leo Haber WRITERS’ GUIDELINES 3 Guidelines for Writers as of January 2006 • Leo Haber ARTICLE 4 Europe’s New Frontier of Bigotry • Robert Wistrich 7 The Mysterious Power of Anti-Zionism • George Jochnowitz 10 Will Eisner: A Cartoonist Who Fought Antisemitism • Rafael Medoff ISRAEL 13 Beyond the Battlefield: The Humanitarian Operations of the Israel Defense Forces • David Rodman 15 Israeli Settlements: The Ordeal of Memory • Jerold Auerbach 20 Religious Zionism After Gaza: Overcoming Shattered Dreams • Eli Kavon MUSIC 22 Song in the Synagogue • Cecil Bloom MIDRASH: JEWISH TEXTS 28 Violence in the Bible • Joel Kaminsky 31 Isaiah 1: The Power of Prophecy • Philip Stern MEMOIR 34 The Tale of a Hebrew Typewriter • Philip E. Miller POETRY 6 The Comforting of Isaac • Lou Barrett 9 At the Circumcision of Judah • Yakov Azriel 19 The Conversion • Liz Rosenberg 27 Death of a Singer • Charles Fishman 30 The Calling • Aviya Kushner 35 Maimonides in Cairo • Yehuda Khaver 38 What She Saw • Dane O’Hara 41 Sisterhood Donor Luncheon • Ada Jill Schneider REVIEW ESSAY 36 Plucking the Heart Out of Isaac Babel’s Mystery • Sanford Pinsker 39 Dhimmitude: Degradation for Peace • Haim Chertok FICTION 42 The Doll • Ivan Prashker BOOKS AND AUTHORS 46 “The Right to Exist” • Henry Delfiner