Table of Contents

Number 1, Spring 2010

FEATURES

What the US Can and Can't Do in the Middle East

 by SHLOMO AVINERI

Why the realists are being unrealistic about American power in the Middle East. 

NA

Endless Devotion

 by HILLEL HALKIN

Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks' new translation of the siddur moves Hillel Halkin to reconsider Jewish prayer.

Requiem for a Luftmentsh

 by DARA HORN

Were Saul Bellow and his friend Isaac Rosenfeld the last Jewish intellectuals of their kind?

Why There Is No Jewish Narnia

 by MICHAEL WEINGRAD

So why don’t Jews write more fantasy literature? And a different, deeper but related question: why are there no works of modern fantasy that are profoundly Jewish in the way that, say, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is Christian?

READINGS

The Idea of Abrahamic Religions: A Qualified Dissent

 by JON D. LEVENSON

What is "Abrahamic" about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

Discrimination and Identity in London: The Jewish Free School Case

 by J. H. H. WEILER

How Britain's highest court misunderstands Judaism.

SUBSCRIBER LOGIN