March/April — 2006

Volume LII No. 2

EDITORIAL 2 Joel Carmichael, z”l • Leo Haber INTERVIEW 4 A Conversation With Elie Wiesel • Joseph Lowin SHOAH 8 La Guardia and the Holocaust • Edward I. Koch/Rafael Medoff 14 Nuremberg Reconsidered Sixty Years Later • Henry Regensteiner 18 Sixty Years Later • Romy Golan 19 A Holocaust Memoir Offers Understanding in Human Terms • Miriam Isaacs HONOR ROLL 21 Honor Roll of Contributors to Midstream • Leo Haber ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 22 Menace of the Year: Iran’s President Ahmadinejad • Abraham Cooper/Harold Brackman 25 Theological Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict • David Saks RELIGION 28 Gentile Customs and Jewish Consciousness • Robert Goldenberg 31 On Being Jewish in a Secular World • R. Ben REVIEW ESSAY 33 Jihad’s Deconstruction of Islam • Abigail Rosenthal FICTION 38 Friends And Foes • J. S. Demel POETRY 24 Bag Man Elijah • Seymour Mayne 30 Passover Preparation • Barbara Hantman 37 Matzah Weaning • Davi Walders 43 The Stone I Found at Auschwitz • Jehanne Dubrow 45 Ghosts • Charles Fishman 47 The Beginning of the World • Ben-David Seligman LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 41 Heskel M. Haddad, M.D. BOOKS AND AUTHORS 41 End of an Exile—Revisited • Haim Chertok 42 Long-Buried Secrets • Arnold Ages 44 The Controversy Over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland • Jack Fischel 46 A Place That Is No More • Yehudit Baumel