Jewish Currents CONTENTS  2007
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   CONTENTS   January - February 2007
Editorials and Viewpoints
 2 Letters
 3 Repairing the Damage: Some First Steps

Columns
 5 For Better or Verse   Henry Foner
 6 Follow-Up
 7 The View from Israel: Someone to Run With  Susan M. Susser
20 Religion and Skepticism: The Jewish Question  Lawrence Bush
24 Our Secular Jewish Heritage
    Blacks, Jews, and American Liberalism   Yankl Stillman
40 Around the World   Lyber Katz

Articles
 9 Peacebuilding  Maurice Harris
14 Proletpen and American Yiddish Poetry Part Two  
    Heyday and Decline  Dovid Katz
    (Part One appeared in our November 2006 issue)   read Part One
48 A Little Red Book in a Vietnamese Museum  Ben Finkelstein

Reviews
30 The Shattered Faith of Isaac Babel
     Nicholas Jahr on The Complete Works
33 Liberalism: Is It Wrong for the Jews?
    Barnett Zumoff on Why Jews Should Not Be Liberals
36 Coming to Terms with Kathy Boudin: Leonard Lehrman on Family Circle
45 Regina Spektor: Taking Risks  Jonathan Vatner

Poetry, Fiction and Art
13 The Reprieve  Roberta Gould
19 Untitled      Eve Goodman
23 How Far Up Is Aliyah?  Scott Struman
27 Death Knocks Yetta Gen   Sid Filkow
29 The Mourner’s Meal  Ben Wilensky
47 The Anti-Milkhome Zamlung   Joel Schechter and Spain
 

   CONTENTS   March - April 2007
Editorials and Viewpoints
   2  Letters
  3   3,000 and Surging
  7   Politicizing the Holocaust    Ralph Seliger

Articles
 11  God and War in Ramat Bet Shemesh     Henry S. Glickman
16  Some Notes on Anti-Semitism from a Progressive Jewish Perspective
      Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
21  Jewish Philanthropy and Social Change    Guy Izhak Austrian
50  Teaching Our Children Yiddish     Linda Gritz
55  The Sobibor Uprising        Michael Lev
65  The Man in Streetcar 46   Robert Schwarz

Columns
 5   For Better or Verse    Henry Foner
 9   The View from Israel   
      Then and Now, For Better and For Worse   Susan M. Susser
34  Religion and Skepticism
      ’Twas the Night of Our Seder      Lawrence Bush
48  Mameloshn
      Two Poems by Ruven Ayzland    translated by Jeffry V. Mallow
62  Our Secular Jewish Heritage  
      H. Leivick on Peysakh     Yankl Stillman
88  Around the World       Lyber Katz
91  The Rootless Cosmopolitan  
      Benkshaft (Longing)        Rokhl Kafrissen 

Reviews
 68  Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
      Jonathan Vatner on Wrestling with God & Men
70  Perils and Victories Crossing the Divide
      Alice Rothchild on Prisoners
72  Einstein and American Racism
      Bennett Muraskin on Einstein on Race and Racism

Poetry, Fiction and Art
 8  Vashti           Irene Orgel
13  Emek Refaeem/Valley of Ghosts   David Gershator
54  Passover at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens    I. Century
58  The Top Hat         Wladyslaw Szlengel, translated by Yala Korwin
94  Rivington Street           Joel Schechter and Spain
 

   CONTENTS   May - June 2007
Editorials and Viewpoints
   2 Letters
  3 Time Warp in the Middle East

Articles
10 In Defense of ‘Self-Hating’ Jews   Menachem Wecker
15 SDS, Reviving        Paul Buhle
18 Modern Liberalism   Barnett Zumoff

Columns
 5  For Better or Verse    Henry Foner
 7  Follow-up
 8  The View From Israel: Being a Mommy in Israel  Amy Klein
24 New Jewish Rituals : Secular Jews and Jewish Ritual  Peter Schweitzer
26 Our Secular Jewish Heritage:
    Heinrich Heine’s Romance with Music  Yankl Stillman
37 Around the World   Lyber Katz
35 The Rootless Cosmopolitan:
     Demons and Darkness: Interpreting Peretz and Margolin  Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
 33  Why Isn’t There a Palestinian State?  Bennett Muraskin on The Iron Cage

Poetry, Fiction and Art
17  The Messiah                    Matthew S. Sisson
28  My Mother’s Hand             Leonid Poretsky
29  Franz                             Nora Simpson
36  On Observing a Dog in a Meadow      Sheri Lindner
47  Legendary Tailors              Joel Schechter and Spain
48  Faith                               Elizabeth Swados  
 

   CONTENTS   July - August 2007
Editorials and Viewpoints
 2 Letters
 3 Challenging the “Global War on Terror”
 7 English Only? No Way, José  Lou Charloff
 8 Stop Ralph Nader! (He Can Show You How)  Lawrence Bush   

Articles
12 The American Way of Miseducation  
    Some Radical Proposals for Reform Joel Shatzky
Special Feature: Around the World — Jewish Communities and Jewish Activism
16 Jews in Poverty Down Under         Philip Mendes
19 Leftist Jews in South America        Paul C. Mischler
21 Challenging Anti-Semitism in Berlin  Robert Augman
26 Ten Jews in a Canoe in Peru          Esther Cohen
28 ‘Trial’ in the Lubyanka, 1952          Hershl Hartman
39 Singing for a Better World             Linda Gritz

 Columns
 5 For Better or Verse     Henry Foner
10 The View from Israel
    The Call-Up - The Lebanon War and Its Aftermath   Amy Klein
24 Mameloshn  Yiddish Translations of Classic English Poems  Barnett Zumoff
34 Our Secular Jewish Heritage: Spinoza and the Modern World Yankl Stillman
45 The Rootless Cosmopolitan Hesterponim  Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
 37 Just Say No to Blockbusters 
         David Rothenberg on the best foreign films of 2007

 Poetry, Fiction and Art
15 Deli Arise                               Sherman Pearl
18 Privacy Is a Rich Man’s Game    Amelia B. Winkler
22 Leaving for America                 Marek Breiger
47 Cadillac                                 Marvin Friedman

 

   CONTENTS   September - October 2007
Editorials and Viewpoints
 2   Letters
 3   “The Elders” — Guidance for a Globalized World

Articles
13  War Criminals in the White House?
      An Interview with Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights
28  Free the Scottsboro Boys!      I. Century
32  Receiving Yolek                    Jeff Balch      
 
Columns
  5  For Better or Verse         Henry Foner
  7  Follow-Up         
  8  The View from Israel
      A Jewish American Civil Rights Worker in Israel    Dorothy M. Zellner
20  Religion and Skepticism  
     Judaism as a Counterculture       Lawrence Bush
24  New Jewish Rituals       Secular High Holidays *  Peter Schweitzer
40  In Memoriam               Bennett Muraskin
44  Around the World         Impressions of Tunisia      Lyber Katz 

Reviews
30  A Witness to the Horrors of Darfur
      Yankl Stillman on The Devil Came on Horseback 

Poetry, Fiction and Art
12  The ESL Teacher              Carol V. Davis
26  New Years Tears              Alexa Bryn
47  Ba’alei Shem Tov  (Masters of the Good Name)       Lawrence Bush
 

   CONTENTS   November - December 2007
Editorials and Viewpoints
 2 Letters
 3 It’s Our War Now 

Articles
10 The ”Israel Lobby” and the ”Special Relationship”   Nicholas Jahr
14 Founding the Fortune Society   David Rothenberg
17 My Life in Books     Esther Cohen
20 Leonard Michaels, Coming of Age  Marek Breiger
 
Columns
 5 FOR BETTER OR VERSE    Henry Foner
 8 THE VIEW FROM ISRAEL  The Russians Have Come!  Amy Klein
24 MAMELOSHN Two Poems by Peretz Miransky Translated by Barnett Zumoff
38 IN MEMORIAM         Bennett Muraskin
45 THE ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITAN  Enge Benge Revisited   Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
26 Axis Rule in Muslim Lands  
    Ralph Seliger on Among the Righteous
28 Before the Great Migration 
    Brian Porter-Szucs on The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
31 The Bible on Your Mind
     Henry Glickman on Judeo-Christian Perspectives on Psychology
Poetry, Fiction and Art
30 Two Poems                    Abraham Linik
35 A Complex of Processes   Claudette Bass
47 New Year’s Eve               Marvin Friedman

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