September/October — 2007

Volume LIII No. 5

EDITORIAL 2 A 9/11 Rumination Six Years After • Leo Haber ISRAEL 5 Revisiting the Six-Day War • Jerold S. Auerbach HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS 8 Honor Roll INTERVIEW 9 A Conversation With Phyllis Chesler: American Feminist and Zionist Activist • George Jochnowitz REVIEW ESSAY 14 J.F.K. and Israel Reconsidered (On Herbert Druks’s John F. Kennedy and Israel) • Jack Fischel 16 The Antisemitism of Liberals (On Bernard Harrison’s The Resurgence of Antisemitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion) • Edward Alexander HISTORY 18 353 Years—an American Jewish Success Story • Curt Leviant 23 Rebecca Gratz: Benevolence Above and Beyond • Harriet L. Parmet ARTS & LETTERS 28 Isaac and Rebecca in Scott’s Ivanhoe:: A Study in Courage • Milton Kerker MEMOIR 33 Recollections of a Connecticut Jewish Farmer’s Son • Kenneth Libo 37 Jewish-American Writing and Identity: A Personal Odyssey • Howard R. Wolf 40 From Los Angeles to Ukraine: The Power of Jewish Pilgrimage • Sheila Clapkin FICTION 43 The New Season • Milton Teichman POETRY 4 Yom Kippur, late afternoon • Marge Piercy 27 A Mocha with Adele at the Sabarsky Café • Myron Ernst 36 Women of Valor: A Proverb in Our Time • Davi Walders 42 Psalms and Sonnets • Yehuda Khaver LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 47 Michael Goldblatt, Alan Karabus, Arthur Waskow