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by Mitchell Abidor I HAVE TO ADMIT I’m thoroughly enjoying the discomfiture of the Nobel Committee over Bob Dylan’s refusal to acknowledge his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. That the committee made a mockery of the world of letters by giving the award to a man who passed his prime more than forty-five […]
Read MoreThe United Nations Security Council, 14-0 (with China abstaining), adopted Resolution 338 on this date in 1973, calling for a ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War to take place within twelve hours, for the 1967 Resolution 242 (demanding recognition for Israel and withdrawal of Israel from occupied lands) to be obeyed, and for negotiations to […]
Read Moreby Harold Ticktin Discussed in this essay: Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World, by Lori Clune, Oxford University Press, 2016, 261 pages. IT IS NOT OFTEN that an academic book reads like a novel, yet that is precisely the case for Executing the Rosenbergs. Lori Clune, professor of history at […]
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla, New York Review Books, 2016 THAT WE ARE LIVING in a reactionary moment is hardly a revelation. From the U.S. to France to the UK to Germany to Austria to Hungary to Poland to the Arab world to Israel, […]
Read Moreby Allan Lichtenstein AFTER THE RECENT unrest in Charlotte, Robert Pittenger, a Republican Congressional Representative whose district includes parts of Charlotte, said of the black protestors: “The grievance in their mind is the animus, the anger. They hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not. I mean, yes, it is, it is […]
Read MoreTranslated from the Yiddish by Curt Leviant ‘THIS YEAR we’re going to buy an esrog,” my father declared, and I imagined my father coming to shul, like a respectable householder with his own esrog and Iulav and not using the congregation’s as did other poor people in town. When I heard this news, I could […]
Read MoreTWO PILLARS OF PROGRESSIVE FOLK MUSIC by Bennett Muraskin Fred Hellerman (May 13, 1927 – September 1, 2016) was the last surviving member of the Weavers, the legendary folk group made up of Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Hellerman, and Ronnie Gilbert. The group formed in late 1948, named by Hellerman after a German play that […]
Read MoreONLY THROUGH OUTREACH TO THE DISENFRANCHISED WORKING CLASS by George Salamon “American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.” –Henry Adams AT LONG LAST, the silence voluntarily imposed on itself first by the “Silent Generation” of the 1950s and then through the “Silent […]
Read MoreITS SLANDER OF ISRAEL NOTWITHSTANDING An editorial from the Autumn 2016 issue of Jewish Currents WHEN THE BLACK Lives Matter movement (#BLM) emerged two years ago in angry protest over police racism in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland, and other localities across the U.S., a new phase of the American civil rights movement began. It was […]
Read MoreWHY THE PACKAGE IS HARMFUL TO BOTH COUNTRIES by Allan Brownfeld IN SEPTEMBER, the U.S. signed an unprecedented pact with Israel that will provide it with the largest amount of military aid ever awarded to any country — $3.8 billion annually for ten years, with promises of the latest in fighter jets, missile defense systems […]
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