Winter — 2010 Volume LVI No. 1 EDITORIAL 2 Celebrating Theodor Herzl at 150; Israel at 62; Midstream at 55 • Leo Haber 47 Guidelines for Writers as of January 2010 • Leo Haber ISRAEL 5 Israel, Democracy, and the Apartheid Myth • David Saks 8 Protecting Israel from Short-range Rocket Attacks • Ralph Sanders ISRAEL: ARTS & LETTERS 13 Rivke Basman Ben-Hayim: A Quiet Yiddish Israeli Voice • Zelda Kahan Newman ZIONISM 17 Zionism in Black and White: Part I: 1898-1948 • Harold Brackman RELIGION 24 Judaism and Christianity • George Honig MEMOIR 29 The Two Bobbys: Fischer and Neugeboren • Jay Neugeboren ARTS & LETTERS 35 Philip Roth and Irving Howe on Jewish American Culture • Marek Breiger POETRY 4 Freud and Herzl • Leo Haber 12 Adam the Midwife • Harris Gardner 23 Sacred Lies • Lou Barrett 34 Psalm for Reb Aryeh • Robert Hirschfield 40 The Artist • Lou Barrett 42 Afikoman’s Reward • Israel Zoberman REVIEW ESSAY 38 Excellentish? Yes...Maybe... (a review of a novel by Curt Leviant) • Haim Chertok 41 Moral Nourishment from Professors? (a review of a book by Stephen H. Norwood) • Edward Alexander FICTION 43 Freedom Seder • Gerald M. Siegel LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 45 Michael D. Kaynis, Cecil Bloom, Henry Regensteiner, Heshey Zelcer