A new marriage between social, legal and rabbinical forces is taking place in Israel that has fundamental implications not only on the future of the Israeli state, but on everyday Arabs and Muslims in Palestine/Israel. This new marriage is about the ability for Israeli women to have children without husbands. Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel by Susan M. Kahn is one such book that explores the dynamics between religion, the state and reproductive liberation.

Does anyone still care about the plight of Palestinian refugees? Have not these people and their struggle to return to their homes and lands, forcibly seized in 1948, 1967 and beyond, become irrelevant in the eyes of Israel and the United States? Have they not been abandoned by the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, ignored or seen as a nuisance by Arab governments, and forgotten by some folks, worldwide, advocating solidarity with Palestine? Is the United Nations and international law the best (or only) hope for these refugees? Or should the struggle of Palestinian refugees to return home be abandoned because it is not physically possible? Alternatively, should calls for reparations and compensation be abandoned because they are not economically possible? Should not refugees abandon their claims because they are pipedreams, presenting major roadblocks to a true and lasting peace in Palestine/Israel? Discussion and answers to these questions appear in the sixteen essays included in the edited work Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return.