ISRAEL.

ELIE WIESEL
Letter to President George W. Bush, May 7, 2002.

JOSEPH ALPHER
What Everyone Should Know About the Conflict.

ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
If a Visitor from a Far-Away Galaxy.

AMOS ELON
Israelis and Palestinians: What Went Wrong?

DAVID GROSSMAN
Fictions Embraced by an Israel at War.

DAVID A. HARRIS
Letter from an Anguished Soul.

ARTHUR WASKOW
Torah, War, and the “Gentle Heart” Today: Israeli Soldiers’ Refusal to Serve in the Occupation Army.

ANDREI S. MARKOVITS
Europe’s Unified Voice and Passion.

CURRENT ISSUES.

BLU GREENBERG
Orthodox, Feminist, and Proud of It.

YOEL JAKOBOVITS
Stem Cell Research: What Does Halachah Say?

AMY-JILL LEVINE
Jesus Who?

DANIEL POLISH
Judaism and the Ultimate Punishment.

DAVID SAKS
Why Only the Orthodox Can Avoid Intermarriage.

WILLIAM C. SPEED
Y Marks the Spot.

LAWRENCE BUSH
Drugs and Jewish Spirituality: That Was Then, This Is Now.

JANE LEAVY
King of the Jews.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND PRACTICE.

PAULA E. HYMAN
Who Is an Educated Jew?

LEWIS D. SOLOMON
Rabbinical Education for the Twenty-First Century.

MARGARET MOERS WENIG
Oops! I Shouldn’t Say This . . . Or Should I?

SUSAN BERRIN
Creating a Moral Legacy for Our Children.

NORMAN BERDICHEVSKY
Hebrew vs. Yiddish—The Worldwide Rivalry.

CAROL DIAMENT
The Parent Is the Child’s First Teacher.

YITZHAK HUSBANDS-HANKIN
Ethical Kashrut.

GILBERT S. ROSENTHAL
Halacha: Divine or Human?

PENINNAH SCHRAM
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt on Listening.

SHEILA WEINBERG
Facing an Uncertain Future: What Jewish Meditation Teaches.

JEWISH SPIRITUAL THOUGHT.

ADIN EVEN-ISRAEL STEINSALTZ
The Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life.

MORDECHAI GAFNI
A Hundred Blasts Shatter the Somber Silence.

SHEFA GOLD
Power and the Open Heart.

ARTHUR HERTZBERG
Religion Is Not the Answer.

ELIEZER SHORE
The Temple of Amount.

KABBALAH.

CYNTHIA OZICK
The Heretic: The Mythic Passions of Gershom Scholem.

ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI
So You Want to Learn Kabbalah.

RODGER KAMENETZ
What I Know From Kabbalah.

TODD PITOCK
Safed, Israel: Mystic Echoes from the Middle Ages.

THE HOLOCAUST.

IRVING GREENBERG
A Force for Life, Not for Anger.

ANDREW WALLENSTEIN
Shoah Business.

DANIEL ASA ROSE
Hiding Places.

9/11.

BENJAMIN BLECH
Forgive the Terrorists?

BEZALEL NAOR
From a Kabbalist’s Diary: Pensées on a Post-9/11 Universe.

AVI WEISS
A Congregation of Holy Souls: Reflections on 9/11 One Year Later.

ANTI-SEMITISM.

PHYLLIS CHESLER
The New Anti-Semitism.

EDWARD I. KOCH
Letter from Former New York Mayor Ed Koch to Woody Allen.

ALVIN H. ROSENFELD
Feeling Alone, Again: The Growing Unease Among Germany’s Jews.

POETRY.

RODGER KAMENETZ
Allen Ginsberg Forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews.

ENID DAME
Miriam’s Seders.

MARGE PIERCY
The Late Year.

LEO HABER
Villanelle: Is Butter Churned These Days, Is Love Denied?

LEO HABER
What the Returning Raven Said.

I. CENTURY
Yiddish.

LESLIE COHEN
To Dream in Hebrew.

VALERIE WOHLFELD
Veined-Garden.

FICTION.

TALIA CARNER
Empty Chairs.

HERBERT GOLD
Religion: Goy.

GLORIA GOLDREICH
Mazal’s Day.

JEWISH HUMOR.

RALPH DE TOLEDANO
The Wit and Practicality of the Talmud.

LEO M. ABRAMI
It Is Not a Joke . . .

LAWRENCE J. EPSTEIN
Seinfeld.

THE EDITOR.

THE CONTRIBUTORS.

CREDITS.