June 2006
Features
NATHAN GUTTMAN
The Rosen-Weissman scandal sheds light on Israel’s complex relationship with the powerful lobby that is its staunchest American supporter. Like any close friendship, this one has its rocky moments.
Marked For Life
SHAUN RAVIV
A fascinating tour through the history of tattoos—with stops in Auschwitz, New York and Tel Aviv, and visits with young Jews who are purposefully and permanently marking themselves with Jewish symbols.
Letter From Israel
Living with Closed Eyes
SUZANNE F. SINGER & JESSICA STEINBERG
Under the cover of night, the women are smuggled across the Sinai Desert into Israel, where they are forced to work as prostitutes. We meet a former sex slave and find out what Israel is doing to stop trafficking.
A Jewish Life
Ehud Olmert: The Right Man at the Right Time?
IAN BLACK
Now that the smooth-talking former hard-liner is prime minister, can he finalize Israel’s borders and lead the country to lasting peace?
Essay
The Art of Jewish Pushiness
ABE OPINCAR
Moses was the first of many pushy Jews. It’s become a tribal trait for good reason.
Gallery
AMY COWEN
An award-winning photographer travels to Gondar, Ethiopia, where an adolescent who practices modern Orthodox Judaism, leads his peers in an early morning service.
Departments
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
Once upon a time there was a way to reverse circumcision
Hershel Shanks
A window into the thinking of the Muslim world, good and bad
Suzanne F. Singer
Israel’s treatment of refugees from Darfur is disgraceful
Leonard Fein
The authors of the Harvard paper are misguided, not anti-Semitic
Marshall Breger
Palestinan Christians face the fact of a Hamas victory
Daoud Kuttab
The Jewish Word
Shiksa: A word that has gotten over its roots
Jewish Enterprise
The smoldering passion of Mikey Weinstein
Ask the Rabbis
How should we view unmarried pregnant women?
Poem
Books
Morton Halperin on The Bomb in the Basement;Vikram Seth’s Two Lives
Author Interview
Herbert Krosney on The Lost Gospel of Judas
A Moment With...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Spice Box
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