November/December— 2008 Volume LIV No. 6 ISRAEL AT SIXTY 2 Reminiscences and Reflections: Part Four Joseph Lowin, Leonard Bush, David Zucker and Bonita E. Taylor 6 The S.S. Ben Hecht: A Jewish Refugee Ship that Changed History • Rafael Medoff SHOAH: KRISTALLNACHT 14 A Kristallnacht Retrospective • Henry Regensteiner SHOAH: REVIEW ESSAY 17 Released from History: A Unique and Riveting Anthology of Holocaust Poetry (a review of a book edited by Charles Adés Fishman) • Lou Barrett 20 Can Adolf Hitler Really Have Existed? Jay Neugeboren’s Revelatory Novel on Dr. Eduard Bloch • Joseph Triebwasser JUDAISM: REVIEW ESSAY 24 “What Can a Modern Jew Believe?” (a review of a book by Gilbert S. Rosenthal) • Arnold Ages JUDAISM AND ISLAM 27 The Eschatological Conflict between Judaism and Islam • Arnold Slyper FICTION 32 Bridges — Part II: Lily is Waiting at the Bridge • Leo Haber POETRY 5 Ask the Rain • Louis Daniel Brodsky 13 Joseph • Dina Yehuda MEMOIR: AMERICA AND ISRAEL 41 An Old Friend Again • Michael A. Zimmerman INDEX 44 Midstream Index 2008 — Volume LIV