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by Mitchell Abidor I KNOW, have long known all the errors, misdeeds, and even crimes of Fidel Castro: his refusal during the struggle that overthrew Batista to give the urban fighters sufficient credit and place in the victorious revolutionary state; the acceptance of the sway of the Soviet Union and the support of the invasion […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush I’M IN COLUMBIA, South Carolina, visiting my pregnant daughter and looking with wondering eyes at the world that elected Donald Trump. Among those I shared Thanksgiving with was a young father who works in military intelligence and who voiced to me, over the course of two days, his strong objections to Southern […]
Read Moreby Joshua B. Forrest IT IS DIFFICULT to imagine a scenario that more closely approximates the intended post-Holocaust meaning of “never again” than the imperative to take decisive action to counter the horrific mass murders of Syrian civilians by the regime of President Hafez Assad and his Russian allies. By conservative estimates, nearly half a […]
Read Moreby Ron Skolnik AS WE CONTINUE to reel following the Electoral College victory of Donald Trump — and, to make matters much, much worse, his appointment of rightwing extremist Steve Bannon as the chief architect of his administration’s strategy — it’s important to keep tabs on the reactions coming out of the American Jewish organizational […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush NOW CIRCULATING on the Internet, supposedly in the name of Warren Buffet: The BUFFETT Rule Let’s see if these idiots understand what people pressure is all about. Salary of retired US Presidents .. . . . .. . . . . .. . $180,000 FOR LIFE. Salary of House/Senate members .. . […]
Read Moreby Marc Jampole DONALD TRUMP by himself can’t get anything done. Like any president, he needs an army of managers, economists, engineers, attorneys, spokespersons, and other professional foot soldiers to head and staff departments and agencies to get the actual work done and documented. We already know that when it comes to getting his way, […]
Read Moreby George Salamon “The Democrats have become the party of the more affluent and more educated, while the Republicans have become the party of the less advantaged working class –- a pattern which has accelerated in this election season.” –Richard Florida, “America’s Class-Divided Electorate,” in Citylab, October 26, 2016 THAT DISCOMFORTING TRUTH is not one […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush HERE I AM putting finishing touches on this year’s Jewish Currents Arts Calendar, our winter issue, which is built upon the theme, “kinderlekh” (the Yiddish diminutive for children). We selected that theme months ago, to express our hopes for a thriving and inclusive future for our children and our grandchildren — and […]
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor I WILL ADMIT this is the second version of my postmortem on the election. It seemed obvious just a day or so ago that though we’d gone to the brink, white America was not going to throw the country off the cliff and vote in Trump. Even so, I was less than […]
Read Moreby Ralph Seliger ANTISEMITISM, the world’s oldest, ongoing hatred, morphed from its earliest days in ancient times as a theological prejudice, with the ascendency of the Christian faith to the status of state religion of the Roman Empire, to the racist doctrines of rightwing 19th- and 20th-century European nationalists. (I prefer the British spelling of […]
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