Azure No. 4 Summer 5758 / 1998
From the Editors:
Dusting Off the Jewish Bookshelf
The Jewish Origins of the Western Disobedience Tradition
Yoram Hazony
Civil disobedience did not, as we are taught, begin with Socrates and Antigone,
but with a Hebrew Bible that rejected the supremacy of human law.
How the Government's Attorney Became Its General
Evelyn Gordon
And now, for the Israeli judiciary's latest trick: Expropriating the attorney-general.
Review
Adam Pruzan on Faith or Fear by Elliott Abrams
Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz
on Piety and Fanaticism by Sara Epstein Weinstein