Januar/February — 2007

Volume LIII No. 1

January/February — 2007 Volume LIII No. 1 EDITORIAL 2 What is Midstream’s Point of View? • Leo Haber ISRAEL 4 Denial and Demonization • Erel Shalit 11 Israel: The Necessity of Developing a Second-Strike Capability • Gil Ehrenkranz 15 From Hawaii to Haganah: Nathan Liff’s Gift and Israeli Arms Procurement, 1947-1948, and Beyond • Harold Brackman/Giveon Cornfield MEMOIR 19 Growing up Jewish in Delphos, Ohio • Selma Lesser WRITERS’ GUIDELINES 23 Writers’ Guidelines as of January 2007 • Leo Haber JEWISH LIFE 24 “We Jews: Who Are We and What Should We Do?” • Solomon Goldman ARTS AND LETTERS 28 Paul Celan and Yehuda Amichai: an Exchange Between Two Great Poets • John Felstiner REVIEW ESSAYS 31 The Folly of Feminist Anti-Zionism (a review of a book by Phyllis Chesler) • George Jochnowitz 33 A New Addition to the “New Wave” of Jewish-American Literature (a review of a book by Janet Burstein) • Wendy Zierler 36 Barney Ross: Of Body and Soul (a review of a book by Douglas Century) • Maurice Wohlgelernter POETRY 10 A Defeat? • Yala Korwin 14 Ladders • Stanley H. Barkan 18 Charleston Sabbath • Davi Walders 27 Adonoi Echod • John Felstiner 30 Victims • Yehuda Khaver 32 Shabbes • I. Century 35 Tu Bishvat: Recomposing • Jane E. Seitel 45 Not Made in Heaven • Harris Gardner MUSIC 41 The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Music • Cecil Bloom FICTION 46 Knock, Knock • Elsa Nad