Fall — 2009 Volume LV No. 4 ISRAEL 2 Tel Aviv at 100: Forever Young • Haim Chertok 8 Obama’s Peace Offensive • Alon Ben-Meir 11 What Really Happened in Gaza? • David J. Gilfix ANTISEMITISM AND ZIONISM 18 Some Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism • Robert Wistrich RELIGION AND ZIONISM 21 Eschatological Protectionism: Saving Jews for the End of Days • Ronald Pies ARTS & LETTERS AND ZIONISM 25 Israel Zangwill(1864-1926): English Novelist of the Ghetto and Early Zionist • Cecil Bloom MEMOIR: JEWISH-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 29 Jewish Memories of the Wild West 1958-1959 • Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz 35 A Name is Born • Esti Alter FICTION 36 Pres and the Jewish Pushkin • Leo Haber POETRY 20 And Is It Still A Matter of Law? • Sue Walker 28 Brooklyn: The Brighton Beach Subway Line, 1944 • Myron Ernst 34 Certitudes • Lou Barrett 35 Candles • Israel Zoberman 41 Bathsheba • Leo Lieberman 43 David Dying • Yehuda Khaver BOOK REVIEW 42 Revisionist Israeli Historian Surprises Us (a review of a book by Benny Morris) • Jack Riemer 44 Old Left, New Left, Secular Jew Left (a review of a book by Lawrence Bush) • George Jochnowitz INDEX 46 Midstream Index 2009 — Volume LV