(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 64, #3, Chanukah 2009)   In this pivotal contribution to the discussion about Israel’s fight for survival and about that country’s essential nature, Daniel Gordis takes the bull by the horns, grappling both with the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing Israel today

(Reviewer: Gary Selikow, Vol. 68, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2013)  Nick Cohen comes from a left-wing family. His great-grandparents fled from the Tsarist Empire at the time of the pogroms, but their son, his grandfather, revolted. He became a Communist and married outside the faith.