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by Lawrence Bush His name meant “beloved,” and hearing it always evoked a soft feeling in me, yet I thought of Lyber Katz as the iron man of the Jewish left. As long as he was around, I believed, Camp Kinderland would never sink into the mud, and Jewish Currents would never cease to publish. […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush North Carolina is now the place where I saw an orange moonrise and wondered why I do the work I do as I packed the car at dawn.
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush 1. I don’t know this place, North Carolina. The sky stretches, me to you.
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush AS EDITOR OF OUR UNDERSTAFFED MAGAZINE for more than a dozen years, I’ve learned to preserve my sanity by not feeling that we have to respond to every bit of horrible news that breaks across the globe, even within the little vinkl (corner) known as the Jewish community. But with Israel at […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush An artwork to remind America that it has a soul.
Read MoreWe’ve now made our pictorial on Freedom Summer available as a downloadable pdf — click here.
Read MoreHere’s a sefirotic tree for July 4th. The sefirotic tree is a central motif of Jewish mysticism that shows ten emanations (sefirot) of God, from Keter (Crown) to Yesod (Foundation). For me, it’s about human beings being the best that human beings can be and acting in recognition of our interdependence and interconnection. July 4th: […]
Read MoreToo Many Progressive Jews are Running the Wrong Way by Lawrence Bush I visited last week with a reader of our magazine, Robert Rhodes, who is a leader of Preserve Ramapo, a community group that is seeking to protect parts of Rockland and Orange Counties from the power-mongering of rapidly expanding Hasidic communities. Both […]
Read Moreby Lawrence Bush I asked in our early-bird Jewdayo fundraiser the other day if readers thought Jewdayo should include or exclude people who for sincere or opportunistic reasons converted out of Judaism in the course of their lives. Here are some reader responses: Our frequent and erudite commentator, Anna Wrobel, wrote, While it irritates me […]
Read MoreJewish Currents has helped to organize a Jewish Working Group to End the New Jim Crow, which includes a task force within the Woodstock Jewish Congregation, T’ruah (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights—North America), and JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice). This Working Group has promised three products: a Passover Haggadah supplement, a Jewish study […]
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