Winter — 2009 Volume LV No. 1 EDITORIAL 2 So Whom did Midstream Support for President? Financial Meltdown; Terror in Mumbai; Gaza Rockets; Changes at Midstream and an Appeal to Readers • Leo Haber 25 Guidelines for Writers as of January 2009 • Leo Haber ISRAEL AT SIXTY: A SYMPOSIUM IN JERUSALEM 7 Facing Tomorrow • Haim Chertok ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 12 The Poison of History; The Doctrines of “Jihad” and “Stages” • Ralph Sanders JEWISH HISTORY 16 Joseph Sinzheim, President of Napoleon’s Sanhedrin and the First Chief Rabbi of France • Joseph Sungolowsky 19 Abraham Geiger and Abraham Isaac Kook: Messianism’s Return to History • Eli Kavon IN MEMORIAM 24 Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman (1910-2008), z”l • Leo Haber SHOAH: ARTS & LETTERS 26 Gunter Grass’s Mea Culpa • Herta Newman MIDRASH 28 “Love Your Fellow as Yourself” • Louis Kaplan REVIEW ESSAY 31 A Remarkable First Novel: Who Deserves to be the New Rosh Yeshiva? (a review of a novel by Marc Angel) • Jane Mushabac 33 “The Catholic Church and the Jewish People” (a review of a book edited by Philip Cunningham et al.) • Gilbert Rosenthal POETRY 6 Climbing • Yehoshua November 11 A Gypsy Boy In Ravensbrück • Charles Adés Fishman 15 Morning Prayer • Jay Neugeboren 40 Tonight, You Sleep • Louis Daniel Brodsky 45 Shabbat Soccer • Ken Bresler FICTION 36 Look Away a Little Bit • Susan Suffes BOOK REVIEW 39 Candide’s Naysayer in Lively Modern Dress (a review of a book by George Jochnowitz) • Arnold Ages 41 Politics Versus Religion (a review of a book by Michael Burleigh) • Jack Fischel 44 Jewish American Immigrant Fiction Continued: The Contemporary Russian Story (a review of a book by Ellen Litman) • Joel Streicker LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 46 Ed Colker, Charles S. Berdiansky, Tsvi Bisk, Rabbi Israel Zoberman, Harold Ticktin, Stanley Nash, Phyllis Chesler, Norman Meyerson, Irina Shuchat