January/February — 2008

Volume LIV No. 1

EDITORIAL 2 To Publish or Not to Publish? • Leo Haber 4 Guidelines for Writers as of January 2008 • Leo Haber ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 5 Report from Israel: A Doleful Dispatch • Haim Chertok 8 Three Days that Changed the Middle East — Sadat’s Visit Reconsidered • Meron Medzini 11 The Refugees and the Middle East • Heskel M. Haddad HISTORY 13 Ze’ev Jabotinsky: Wild Man of Zion • Cecil Bloom 19 Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated? • Steven Nadler ARTICLE 23 Discussing BBC’s Anti-Israel Bias • Gilead Ini 29 Witless in Gaza:The BBC, Fox News, and the Western Press • Eric Rozenman ARTS & LETTERS 32 Was Bambi Jewish? • Richard Glaser REVIEW ESSAY 37 Jewish-American Women Writers and Critics Come of Age (a review of a book edited by Lois E. Rubin) • Hannah Berliner Fischthal FICTION 41 From the Journal of Doctor Eduard Bloch: Maria Anna • Jay Neugeboren POETRY 10 The Old Adam • Hindy Lauer Schachter 12 The Fifth Son • Lou Barrett 28 Tzimtzum • Yehuda Khaver 31 A Bench in Tel Aviv • Charles Fishman 36 Adon Olam • Stephen Bluestone BOOKS AND AUTHORS 43 Dawkins Versus Religion; Judaism Included (a review of a book by Richard Dawkins) • George Jochnowitz 45 Women on the Verge (a review of a book by Enid Shomer) • Joel Streicker LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 47 George Kopp, Heskel M. Haddad, Gerardo Joffe, Martin J. Warmbrand, Hershel Shanks