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Joshua Saul Beckman ....................................14 No Money, No Work Hal Sirowitz ......................................... .22 4 Contents and from there to water yerrniyahu ahron taub ....................................36 Letters ,. Saturday Morning Cowboy Max Westler ..........................................57 Anatomy True to our name) Response welcomes letters about things we1ve Chanita Baurnhajt ....... , ............. ............... .59 published. Send your comments to us via e-mail <[email protected]> or to our street address, 27 l#st 20th Street, New York, NY 10011- Into This Everything 3707 . ..,.,1 fayce D·IS k·tn ............................... .........60 Birdwatching With My Father Molly Weber ................................. ....64 To the editors: In David R. Adler's review essay, "Israel in Question" (Response 66, Vertical Elizabeth Cohen ................. ...................65 Summer/Fall 1996), I am criticized for my critique of Edward Said's opposition to the peace process, "Edward Said vs. Peace," published in the Bugs in the Mikveh March 1996 issue ofJewish Currents. Mr. Adler does not deal with the content Deborah Salazar . .......................................75 of my article but claims that the title is "ludicrously tendentious" for indicating Generation X, Crown Heights that Prof. Said is against peace as such. Cheryl Fish ...........................................85 Adler is semantically correct. I doubt that Said is so bitter and so anti-Israel that he is actually against peace (although I am not one-hundred percent REVIEW certain). Objectively, however, since the Oslo peace process has been the only A Patriarchy By Any Other Name: Aviva Cantor's Jewish Wornenijewish Men practical alternative to endless war, Said's inflexible rantings against the peace Gwynn Kessler ......................................66 process render him precisely "an enemy of peace." Just ask Palestinian supporters of the peace process. POSTSCRIPT: POST-ZIONISM The narrow and tragic defeat of the pro-peace forces in the recent Israeli Post-Zionism and the Dynamics of American Jewry election should underscore that the Oslo framework-however disappointing Laurence A. Kotler-Berkowitz ...............................86 to Said, Adler, and others for its glacial pace and modest goals (often a frustration for myself as well, since I am a supporter of Meretz after a11)- CONTRIBUTORS .........................................94 demarcates the best-case scenario. Surely, both Israelis and Palestinians need to Interior Illustration p. 13: Sara Reisman swallow some pride and stomach some distasteful compromises in the interest of a lasting peace. B'shalom, Ralph Seliger (The author is a contributing editor of P.S.: 'I7te Intelligent ~uide to Jewish Affairs and consulting editor and former editor-in-chief of Israel Horizons: T11e Progressive Zionist Quarterly.) 5 A , •• ... ~UpFront~ q ~ • Four More Years • Now in its fourth volume ... Shortly after his reelection as President of the United States, Bill Clinton The Journal of > o addressed the Democratic Leadership Council and declared an end to political • ?L • Lesbian and Gay Studies conflict. His victory, he explained, signifies a nationwide repudiation of • Q ideology and partisanship. The hoary dichotomy ofteft and right is now to give ~ way to the commonsensical, pragmatic vision of the "Vital Center." Accord- ... ingly, politicians are to act as consummate compromisers, striking deals with EorroRS Providing a forum for new work in the rapidly their putative adversaries in the interest of "getting the job done." And of Carolyn Oinshaw expanding interdisciplinary field af lesbian and gay University of California course, everyone is to agree on what "the job" is. Dissent is conveniently at Berkeley studies, GLQ: A journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies categorized as obstructionism. publishes scholarship, criticism and commentary David M. Halperin that bring a queer perspective to bear on any and all In Clinton's second term we'll witness the continued sanctification of University of South Wales topicS touching on sex and sexuality. By treating sex "bipartisanship," the Vital Center's holiest of values. Often construed as laudable Sydney, Australia not simply as a physical or psychological event but civility-"walking across the aisle and shaking your opponent's hand"-what also as a partofvarious networks of cultural exchange. BOOK REVIEW EDITORS it actually represents is the elimination of all remaining differences between the Peter M. Nardi GLQ illuminates the complex interplay among sexual Socia! Sciences and social meanings. individual and collective practices, Democratic and Republican parties. The party of FDR has been transformed Ann Pellegrini private fantasies and public institutions, erotks and by a coterie of "New Democrats" (a clever label-who wants to be aligned Humanities politicS. with what's "Old"?) into an instrument of the emerging center-right FILMNiOEO REVIEW EDITORS consensus.