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by Marc Jampole Across the country, colleges are holding graduation ceremonies for hundreds of thousands of graduates. But what used to be called the graduation season is rapidly gaining a new name: commencement speaker cancellation season. This year, in particular, there seems to be a large number of high profile commencement speakers who have backed […]
Read MoreJews and the Financial Meltdown by George Salamon “We are doing God’s work.” —Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs “How odd of God/To choose the Jews.” —William Norman Ewer, British journalist We know that versions of the second thought ran through the minds of some moviegoers as they watched Inside Job, the award-winning 2010 documentary about […]
Read MoreMight the U.S. Now Impose a Solution on Israel? by Ron Skolnik IF YOU’VE BEEN following the on-again, off-again Israeli-Palestinian peace talks for as long as I have, it’s hard to imagine that the day will come when the U.S.-brokered negotiating process reaches the end of the road. Having survived countless spasms of violence and […]
Read Moreby the Editorial Board Photos, unless otherwise indicated, by Mark Levy, from the Queens College/CUNY Civil Rights Archive. From the Spring 2014 issue of Jewish Currents. To read Part One, click here. To read Part Two, click here. To read narratives by the volunteers, click here and here. MUCH DID CHANGE, of course, in […]
Read MoreFor other voices, click here. 3. Mark Levy When I speak to students about why I went to Mississippi during “Freedom Summer ’64” to fight for civil rights, I tell them the first and most significant factor was that I am Jewish. My Jewish teachings and values made it feel like the right thing to […]
Read MoreThe Sun and I, by Rohl Fishman Translated by Barnett Zumoff I am sunned through and sunned out and finished with sunning. Open me up, and from my innards will spurt the hot core of sun. I ingest so much sun that I laugh and radiate back to the sun burning hot signals. Every corner […]
Read MoreFilmmaker Billy (Samuel) Wilder, whose Some Like It Hot (1959) was named the all-time greatest American comedy film by the American Film Institute in 2000, was born in Austria-Hungary on this date in 1906. Wilder fled Nazi Germany for Paris and then Hollywood, where he established himself as a film director with Double Indemnity, which […]
Read MoreFacing Problems of Social Transformation by Paul Horowitz Originally published in the September, 1981 issue of Jewish Currents Reviewed in this Essay: Jews of the Latin American Republics, by Judith Laikin Elkin. University of North Carolina Press, 1980, 313 pages. IN THE EARLY 1970S THE EARLY CHILEAN RIGHT Tried to focus middle-class and elite anger, unleashed […]
Read MoreFor the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Emma Lazarus, November 19, 1887 by June Gordon Originally published in the November, 1962 issue of Jewish Currents Dear Editors: Thank you for inviting me to comment on M.L.G.’s letter (September, 1962), in which he asked, “Henrietta Szold epitomizes Hadassah; how does Emma Lazarus reflect secular Judaism?…” His […]
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