November/December — 2006

Volume LII No. 6

ISRAEL 2 Thirteen Essayists Take on Anti-Israel Media (a review essay of a book edited by Edward Alexander and Paul Bogdanor) • Arnold Ages 5 The Inner Contradictions of Jihad • George Jochnowitz ARTICLE 8 When the U.S. Government Spied on American Jews • Rafael Medoff COMMEMORATIVE ESSAYS 13 The Use of Reason in Maimonidies: An Evaluation by Ahad Ha-Am • Alfred Gottschalk 18 Sigmund Freud, Jewishness, and Zionism • Harold Ticktin MIDRASH 21 Abraham’s Covenant, Chosenness, and the Binding of Isaac • Lippman Bodoff ARTS AND LETTERS 27 The Cranky, Utterly Indispensable Alfred Kazin • Sanford Pinsker 31 Jewish Aspects of Don Quixote • Curt Leviant FICTION 35 The Second Exodus • Jacob Jaffe POETRY 4 A Defeat? • Yala Korwin 12 Dress Code • Stephen Bluestone 17 Isaac Unbound • Lou Barrett 20 Sigmund Freud on Tishah b’Av • Leo Haber 34 Menorah Glory • Barbara Hantman 43 Kristallnacht (Brooklyn 2006) • Ronald Pies BOOKS AND AUTHORS 40 Jews and the Challenge of Modernity (a review of a book by David Ellenson) • Gilbert S. Rosenthal 42 A Riveting Holocaust Novel by Mayer Abramowitz • Jack Fischel LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 44 Samuel H. Bahn, and Herta Newman INDEX 45 Midstream Index 2006 — Volume LII