Summer — 2009 Volume LV No. 3 ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 2 President Obama’s Cairo Speech and the Reset Button • Darren Pinsker 5 How Israel Won the War Against the Suicide Bombers • Yonatan Silverman 10 The Strange Phenomenon of Jewish Anti-Zionism: Is it a Contradiction in Terms? The Australian Experience • Philip Mendes 13 “I Will Bless Those Who Bless You” • Stephen Spector SHOAH: THEOLOGY 18 A Tisha Be’Av Meditation: Jerusalem, Auschwitz, and Confronting the Covenant • Eli Kavon SHOAH: MEMOIR 21 Gifts from a Spiritual Ancestor: A Holocaust Memoir • Peter Janovsky JEWISH DIASPORA CULTURES 26 Wrestling with God: Fear and Fearlessness in Jewish Languages • George Jochnowitz JEWISH DIASPORA CULTURES: YIDDISH 29 Elegy for a Yiddish Scholar: Joseph Sherman, z”l, 1944-2009 • Todd Pitock JEWISH DIASPORA CULTURES: ARTS AND LETTERS 34 Artist and Magician: Marc Chagall and Isaac Bashevis-Singer • Ruth Dorot POETRY 4 “A Hammer That Would Break Up a Stone” • Yehuda Khaver 9 The Kotel Tunnels • Sarah Stern 20 A Ladino Poem: La Kondja De Sukkot (Sukkot Flower) • Rebecca Scherer 25 Hear, O Lord • Eliaz Cohen 33 Drydock • Marge Piercy 42 Kaddish in Memory of Allen Ginsberg • Leo Haber 44 A Ladino Poem: Maase Avot Siman Abanim (The Deeds of the Fathers are a Model for the Children) • Rebecca Scherer 47 Michelangelo’s Moses • Davi Walders FICTION 40 Children of the Dust • Lawrence J. Epstein BOOK REVIEW 43 Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Double-Sided Life (a review of a book by Florence Noiville) • Curt Leviant 45 Blessed Memories; Cursed Memories (a review of a book by Zvi Ankori) • Steven Bowman