The ”Israel Lobby” and the ”Special Relationship”   Nicholas Jahr
Some of the links for this can be found in previous July-August 2006 Editorial
New links have been supplied by the author, Nicholas Jahr.
Mearsheimer & Walt's original article in London Review of Books, May 2006

Terry Gross, host of NPR's "Fresh Air" interviews Abraham Foxman (19 minutes, audio), then Stephen Walt on September 4, 2007 (21 minutes)

ADL Editorial

The MuzzleWatch blog

The Debate

• Plitnick & Toensing's essay (mentioned in Jahr's essay) in the Middle East Report
• Michael Massing on AIPAC in the New York Review of Books (a preview)
• Stephen Zunes' critique for Mother Jones
• Michael Powell for the Washington Post:
• Philip Weiss for The Nation
• The Forward's responses:
  - unsigned editorial on the M-W article
  - unsigned editorial on the M-W book
  - article by Leonard Fein

Enge Benge Revisited    Rokhl Kafrissen
- Wikipedia entry on Beyle_Schaechter-Gottesman

Founding the Fortune Society   David Rothenberg
Working to Humanize the Prison System
Fortune Society website

Leonard Michaels, Coming of Age  Marek Breiger
Wikipedia entry for Leanoard Michaels
Review in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Michaels
Review in The Nation
Tribute from the 92nd St Y

Center for Constitutional Rights website

Receiving Yolek                    Jeff Balch

An interesting analysis of “The Book of Yolek” by Kenneth Sherman in Partisan Review can be found here.

Secular High Holidays   Peter Schweitzer
To read this essay on the pages of The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, click here.  (Acrobat Reader required)

• Ralph Nader website www.ralphnader.org  (site may not display)  
• Wikipedia entry on Ralph Nader
• Nader's Cutting Corporate Welfare page (2000)
• Public Citizen, www.citizen.org, founded by Ralph Nader in 1971.
• Greens for Nader
  An attempt to draft Nader to run on a Green Party ticket in 2008
   

The American Way of Miseducation   by Joel Shatzky
Some Radical Proposals for Reform

• Author's pages  His website and SUNY - Cortland College
• Biography of author, sociologist James S. Coleman at Wikipedia
• Download or review resources of the legacy of the Cole Report, No Child Left Behind and other key education documents, click here.
• A review written in 2006 on the impact of the 1966 Coleman study
  (a Word document, with many links for further study)

The Call-Up - The Lebanon War and Its Aftermath   Amy Klein

• Brief summaries of the 300 page Winograd report (which covers only part of the committee's findings) as covered by the Israel newspapers Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post.
• Winograd Commission (Wikipedia)
• The official Winograd Commission website (Hebrew only)

• The author's blog about religion and art  www.iconia.canonist.com   
• Wikipedia entry on Masada2000 website
• MuzzleWatch "Tracking efforts to stifle open debate about US-Israeli foreign policy. Thread on Masada2000 site coming down.
• Masada2000 website.
  Should it be down, an archived copy can be found at Wayback Machine…
• Richard Silverstein's post on Masada2000 web host taking site down.

SDS, Reviving by Paul Buhle
The Jewish Presence among Students for a Democratic Society.

• Paul Buhle's biography
• SDS: Why Now (Again) by Paul Buhle
• Students for a Democratic Society Website
• Images and videos of the April 2006 SDS conference

• The American Jewish Committee report “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” is on their website. click here. (pdf 380 Kb)
  If you are unable to access the report on their site, click here.
• This controversy is covered via Wikipedia, the open web reference.
  Click here.
• Rokhl Kafriseen's Rootless Cosmopolitan blog has more links
• Website of Fraidy Katz/Wolf Krakowski
• Website of Cantor Rebecca Fletcher

For links to the websites of nearly all the organizations mentioned in this issue, click here.

• Bio and picture on his temple's website  More about Maurice Harris
• The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP)  "founded to further the personal and professional development of individuals as peacebuilders and to strengthen the peacebuilding capacities of the institutions they serve.
• The Summer Peacebuilding Institute Program (CPI)

The Shattered Faith of Isaac Babel by Nicholas Jahr

• Crumpled Press website
• Publisher W.W.Norton website
• Read Isaac Babel online for a limited time at Google Scholar:
• Images, articles of all sorts on the Isaac Babel website of Professor Gregory Freidin at Stanford University.
• Audio:
  Hear these Isaac Babel stories "Karl Yankel", "How It Was Done in Odessa",  "The Awakening", "The King", "My First Goose" and "The Rabbi's Son" read by a variety of personalities via different audio formats. "Jewish Stories From the Old World to the New" website which is part of a complete 18-hour series that has many Jewish Stories distributed to public radio stations nationwide via National Public Radio. "Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New" features original music composed by Yale Strom, a past contributor to Jewish Currents and performed by Klezmer musicians. Go to Public Radio Station KCRW website http://legacy.kcrw.com/jewish/j_audio.html   A great service.