Spring 2007 Issue

Holy Reds and Royal Blues
Julia Weiner on an artistic dialogue across cultures

Science's grim reaper
Sean Kingsley takes issue with Richard Dawkins

Commmitment without belief
Peter Lipton seeks to reconcile the claims of religion and science
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Diamonds at breakfast
Ilana Lee on the glitzy heyday of the Green Park Hotel

Risa Domb (1937 - 2007)
Jane Liddell-King remembers an inspirational teacher and woman

Memoirs of deception
Thérèse Taylor reflects on the fake lives from the Middle East

La belle juive
Nadia Valman explores the enduring fasincation with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture
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'Flaunt it, baby!'
David Herman on the Jewish golden age in Hollywood

Heartless violence and hopeless shmucks
Nathan Abrams on the changing images of the Jewish male body on film
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Where the heart is
Diane Samuels reflects on her journey away from and back to Jewish Liverpool

Truth and Legend on the Charles Bridge
Paul Kriwaczek unravels a tangled tale of quarrels among Czech Jews

Cruising along
Jonathan Fishburn on Jewish seafaring from antiquity to luxury liners

Editorial
by Matthew J. Reisz

Pretty in Pink
by Sasha Frieze

Playing the Jewish card
by Corinne Pearlman

Letter from Jerusalem
by Vivien Eden

The view from New York
by David Katz More...

OPINION
Phoebe Maltz investigates the not-so-hidden agenda of North American Jewish life
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POETRY
Letters to King Laios from Oedipus

FICTION
Edward Timms plays tribute to a stranger in strange lands
A Saint in the Desert by Jakov Lind
In the pure state by Elon Salmon

REVIEWS
Devorah Baum on Emmanuel Lavinas and Leo Strauss More...
Samantha Ellis on the Jews of Iraq More...
Laura Phillips on the second novel by Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua

The last word
Farideh Goldin on the aromas of Passovers past