Azure • AUTUMN 5760 / 1999
From the Editors:
The Knesset Divided Against Itself
What Do You Mean, "He's Innocent"?
Currents:
Fifty Faces of Post-Zionism by Assaf Sagiv
Rise of the Judeo-Cons by Kenneth R. Weinstein
Move Over, Singapore by Yitzhak Klein
Essays:
On The Political Stupidity of the Jews
Irving Kristol • Whether in America or in their own sovereign country,
Jews still have no idea what statecraft is.
The Court that Packed Itself
Mordechai Haller • Israel's Supreme Court justices are appointed by
an arcane process dominated by the court itself. A call for democratic controls.
Russian Jews in Search of The Jewish State
Anna Isakova • Having reached the Promised Land, Russian-speaking immigrants
find themselves alone in their quest for Jewish civilization.
Reviews:
Jeff Jacoby on Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
Ziv Hellman on Room for Everyone by Shlomo
Ben-Ami
Gadi Taub on the Hebrew edition of Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Edmund Burke
Avi Picard on the new Shas literature
Correspondence