Preface: A Bit of Autobiography
I. In Debate with Menachem Begin. 1. An Open Letter to Menachem Begin. 2. The View from Cairo. 3. Begin and the Jews. 4. Begin Must Go
II. In Debate with Israel. 5. The Tragedy of Victory. 6. The Uprising. 7. An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel
III. In Defense Of Political Zionism. 8. In Debate with the Arabs, and Their Friends: "Zionism Is Racism"
A Counterattack. 9. In Debate with Jewish and Palestinian Extremists. 10. Zionism Revisited
IV. In Defense of Cultural Zionism. 11. Ahad Ha'am, 100 Years Later. 12. In Debate About the Diaspora: Gershom Scholem as Zionist and Believer
V. Contemplating America, Without Illusions. 13. Why did the East European Jews Come to America? 14. The Graying of American Jewry. 15. "The Triumph of the Jews": A Critique of Charles Silberman's Optimism. 16. Sharing Culture: Learning to Talk Together as Jews
VI. In Debate with American Jews. 17. In Support of Affirmative Action. 18. Reagan and the Jews. 19. The Illusion of Jewish Unity
VII. In Debate with Christianity and Christians. 20. Synagogue and Church in the Age of Revolution. 21. Disagreeing with Friendly Catholics. 22. John Paul II's Theology of Judaism. 23. The Case for Untidiness: Another View of Church and State
VIII. The Jewishness of Modern Jews. 24. The Return of Maimonides. 25. The Emancipation: A Reassessment After Two Centuries
IX. The Holocaust: In Debate with Man and God. 26. Who Looked Away? 27. A Lifelong Quarrel with God
X. Concluding Reflections.
