Jewish Currents  
Home     Past Issues     About Us     Resources     Subscribe     Contact Us

   CONTENTS   Autumn 2009

Editorials and Viewpoints
  • - Letters
  • - Enemies of the Good
  • - Just Say No to Settlements
Articles
- Jews and Genes
    Alan H. McGowan
  • - Pete Seeger’s Project
        Richard Flacks
    - The Hitler-Stalin Pact, a 70th Year Perspective
        Henry Srebrnik
    - Does Jewish Secularism Have a Future?
          Paul Mishler, Alice Rothchild, Adam Chalom,
    Patricia Cousens Becker
  • Columns
  • - Forshpayzn
  • - The View from Israel
    Rabbis for Human Rights:
    An Interview with Arik Ascherman
    Diana Scott

  • - Radical Yiddish
    Chelm’s Fools and Ours
          Joel Schechter
  • - Mameloshn
    Two Poems by Boris Sandler
    Translated by Barnett Zumoff
  • - New Jewish Rituals
    Opening the Tent to Young Adults
          Linda Gritz       
  • - Our Secular Jewish Heritage
    Weinreich’s Monumental History of Yiddish
          Yankl Stillman
  • - In Memoriam
          Bennett Muraskin

  • JCultcha and Funny Pages
  • - Artworks
          Lawrence Bush, Bernard Greenwald,
          Mikhail Horowitz, Joel Schechter and Spain,
          Nina Talbot, Harry Wilks

  • - Poetry
          Ruth Berman, Miriam Boral, I. Century,
          Marc Jampole, Judith Kerman, Jack Myers,
          Elaine Schea
    r
  • - Torah-True Baseball
          Nathan Brenowitz

  • Reviews
  • - A Religious Atheist
          Mitchell Silver on “Living without God”
  • -France and the Jews
          Mitchell Abidor on “French and Jewish”
  • - Coming Out of the Holy Ark
          Rabbi Alissa Wise on “Torah Queeries”

jc

 

   CONTENTS   March-April 2009

Editorials and Viewpoints
  • - Letters
  • - Enduring as an Independent Magazine
  • - Let Them Eat Pork!
    Israel Stumbles Backwards
  • - Beyond Gaza: An Abrahamic Peace Coalition
    Arthur Waskow
  • - Community Colleges and the “American Dream”
    Eleanor J. Bader

Articles

- YIDDISH GALORE!

jc

 

   CONTENTS   January-February 2009

Editorials and Viewpoints Articles
  • - Jews Uniting to End the War and Heal America:
    Conference Proceedings
    Ann Toback, Rabbi Ellen LIppmann,
    Elizabeth Holtzman, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz,
    Rabbi David Saperstein, Rabbi Arthur Waskow,
    SarahLeah Whitson, Lilly Rivlin, Jeremy Ben-Ami,
    Diane Balser, Diane Balser, MJ Rosenberg
  • Columns
  • - The View from Israel
    Israel Looks at Obama
    Amy Klein
  • - New Jewish Rituals
    Tu B’Shevat? Why Not!
    Linda Gritz
  • - Our Secular Jewish Heritage
    Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the
    Construction of Modern Hebrew
    Yankl Stillman
  • - Concealed/Revealed
    Essays about Justice, Justice
  • - The Rootless Cosmopolitan
    A Tradition of Solidarity:
    Black-Jewish Relations in Jewish Currents
    Rokhl Kafrissen
  • Poetry and Art
  • – Pushke
    Sherman Pearl
  • Two Poems
    Jacob Staub
  • – Shnipishok
    Aron Reis
  • – Yoshiwara in the F Train
    Aron Stavisky
  • –Yarmulke, 1960
    Lawrence Bush

jc

 

   CONTENTS   November-December 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints
  • - Letters
  • - America, Bleeding
  • - Iran’s Ambitions, Israel’s Fears
    Lawrence Bush
  • - A Dank!
Articles Reviews
  • –Defending the Sixties  
    Lawrence Bush on The Sixties Unplugged
  • –Wrestling with Righteousness 
    Diana Scott on Righteous Indignation
  • Poetry, Fiction and Art
  • –As a Christmas Present I Got Myself a Menorah
    Angelo Taranta
  • Hanuka on the Lebanese Border at Kibbutz Yiron
    I. Century
  • –Zeyde
    Alan Holder
  • –The First Hundred Days
    Solomon Chigrinsky

jc

 

   CONTENTS   September-October 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints Articles
  • - J Street Paves Its Own Way
    Nicholas Jahr
  • - Jews and the Left: A Natural Alliance?
    Bennett Muraskin
  • - Jewish Burials in an Age of Ecological Crisis
    Joysa Winter
  • - Troublemakers
    Janice Eidus
  • Columns
  • - It Happened In Israel
    Waiting on the West Bank
    Amy Klein
  • - Religion and Skepticism
    Science and Boundaries:
    An Interview with Bernard Bulkin

     Lawrence Bush
  • - New Jewish Rituals
    You Say Sukkot and I Say Sukes
    Linda Gritz
  • - Our Secular Jewish Heritage
    S. Anski, Jewish Folklorist
    Yankl Stillman
  • - Concealed/Revealed
    Essays about Rabbis
  • - The Rootless Cosmopolitan
    Vilne, Whispering
    Rokhl Kafrissen
Reviews
  • –The Marketplace and the Peace Process  
    Meyer Rothberg on The Hebrew Republic
  • –“Why Don’t You Write My Story?” 
    Carol Jochnowitz on Call Her Blessed
  • Poetry, Fiction and Art
  • –On Learning that Rosh Hashone
    Is the Birthday of Our First Parents
    Yala Korwin
  • Rudolf Rocker’s Arbeter Fraynt
    Joel Schechter and Spain

jc

 

   CONTENTS   July - August 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints
  • - Uniting to End Poverty Means
    Uniting to End the War
  • - Coming Together as Secular Jews
  • - The Mathematics of Peace
    Ralph Seliger
Articles
  • - The Contemporary Meaning of the
    Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference
    An Interview with Emanuel S. Goldsmith
  • - The Spirit of Czernowitz:
    Khayim Zhitlovsky and the International
    Yiddish Culture Congress of 1937
    Matthew Hoffman
  • - Solomon Mikhoels: When Madness Ruled
    Lyber Katz
  • - On the Life and Work of Enid Dame
    Donald Lev
Columns
  • - Forshpayzn
  • - Follow-Up
  • - It Happened In Israel
    Among the Bedouin of the Negev
    Sue Swartz
  • - Mameloshn
    Two Poems by Perets Markish
     Translated by Barnett Zumoff
  • - Radical Yiddish
    Celia Adler’s Advice to the Players
    Joel Schechter
  • - Our Secular Jewish Heritage
    Tishe Bov and Mournful Days of Jewish History
    Yankl Stillman
  • - In Memoriam
    Bennett Muraskin on Milton Wolff, Howard Metzenbaum, Mildred Loving
  • - Concealed/Revealed
    Essays about Doctors
  • - The Rootless Cosmopolitan
    Jews Without Hearts
    Rokhl Kafrissen
Reviews
  • – Jesus and Judas   
    George Jochnowitz on The Gospel of Judas
Poetry, Fiction and Art
  • – Nadezhda Memorizing Mandelshtam’s Poems
    Muriel Harris Weinstein
  • – Two Poems
    David Gershator
  • – WASPS!
    Lawrence Bush
  • - Old Faithful . . . Letter to Detroit
    Barbara Bialick
  • - Cordless
    Marvin Friedman
  • - Thirty-Six Sentences on Lamed Vovniks
    Mikhail Horowitz

jc

 

   CONTENTS   May - June 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints Articles Columns
  • – NEW JEWISH RITUALS
    The Evolution of New Holidays   Peter Schweitzer
  • – OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE
    Freydke Sutzkever, Partisan Angel   Yankl Stillman
  • – RADICAL YIDDISH
    Nit Gedayget Joel Schechter
  • – CONCEALED/REVEALED
    Jews and Shoes   Esther Cohen, Solomon Chigrinsky, Richard Hirsh, Marvin Malinow
  • – THE ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITAN
    Native Yiddish Seekers    Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
But Is It Jewish?   Moti Rieber on Jews and American Popular Culture
The Latest from Biblical Archaeology   Barnett Zumoff on David and Solomon

Poetry, Fiction and Art
  • – The High Priestess    Laurie Ludmer
  • – Love Me Now    David Marell
  • – The soup years   Carol V. Davis

jc

 

   CONTENTS   March - April 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints
  • – Letters
  • – Blood on the Doorposts
  • – Don’t You Yet Realize that Egypt Is Being Destroyed?"
  • – 81/2 PlanetsLawrence Bush
  • – MLK or LBJArthur Waskow
Articles
  • – The Free Clinics of the Psychoanalytic MovementDavid James Fisher
  • – Human Solidarity in Hell John Ranz
  • – Posters from the Vilna GhettoNikolai Borodulin
  • – Relatives Susan Gold
  • Bob Dylan: Reconciliation and AtonementMarek Breiger
  • – A Little Bit of CultchaEsther Cohen
Columns
  • – FOLLOW-UP
  • – THE VIEW FROM ISRAEL
    The Russians Have Come! (Part 2)Amy Klein
  • – RELIGION AND SKEPTICISM
    The Case Against GodMitchell Silver
  • – MAMELOSHN
    Poems by Avrom SutzkeverTranslated by Myra Mniewski
  • – OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE
    The Yiddish Thesaurus and Nahum StutchkoffYankl Stillman
  • – IN MEMORIAM
    Bennett Muraskin
  • – AROUND THE WORLD
    Visiting the AbayudayaRobert Kaplan
  • – THE ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITAN
    “The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere”Rokhl Kafrissen
Reviews
  • – The Jewish RainbowJudith Rosenbaum on The Colors of Jews
  • – Charles Reznikoff’s TestimoniesIan Dreiblatt on Holocaust
Poetry, Fiction and Art
  • – AfikomenSheri Lindner
  • – The Coup de GraceLawrence Fogel-Bublick
  • – A Jewish Writer Repairs a Small German CarBen-David Seligman
  • – Victims and SurvivorsLenny Emmanuel
  • – A PremonitionShirley Adelman
  • – Hitler’s FalconSherman Pearl
  • – The PeacemakerSolomon Chigrinsky

 

   CONTENTS   January - February 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints Articles
  • – Welfare Reform: The Untold Success StoryRobert Cherry
  • – Responding to Robert Cherry: Is This the Best We Can Do?Lawrence Bush
  • – Do Not Minimize the Gains Made by Poor Americans Robert Cherry
  • – Leftists and the Civil Rights Movement Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
  • – Visiting Israel and the Occupied Territories Mike Felsen
  • – Two Conferences: CSJO and IAYC Bennett Muraskin and Harold Ticktin
Columns
  • – FOR BETTER OR VERSE
    Henry Foner
  • – THE VIEW FROM ISRAEL
    The Russians Have Come! The Russians Have Come! (Part 2)Amy Klein
  • – NEW JEWISH RITUALS
    Secular Jewish WeddingsPeter Schweitzer
  • – OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE
    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)Yankl Stillman
  • – AROUND THE WORLD
    The Dönmeh of TurkeyElif Kayi
Reviews
  • – What Would Emma Read?Joel Schechter on new radical comics
Poetry, Fiction and Art
  • – friday afternoon the jewish tailor's shop rue laurier Robert Lovitt
  • – Strictly Leftist Jake Marmer
  • – When Grace Paley DiedSherman Pearl
  • – Mrs. Finkelstein Michael Humfrey
  • – Three Talmudic PassagesLawrence Bush

 

 *  = a link to another website

Past Issues

A progressive secular Jewish magazine, founded in 1946.   ●   Editor: Lawrence Bush
 45 East 33rd Street, 4th floor, New York NY  10016   (212) 889-2523  
info@jewishcurrents.org