Channel Esther: Syrian Refugees
by Esther Cohen Photograph by Matthew Septimus EVERY Super Bowl Sunday I go to the movies with Bruce but this year we both had other plans still I walked over to his apartment
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The Uncivil Servant: Terror in Buenos Aires
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Once@9:53am by Ilan Stavans and Marcelo Brodsky. Penn State University press, 2016, 119 pages. IT WAS AT 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, that a car bomb went off in front of the building of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), in the Once (two syllables, […]
Read MoreKhanike America
by Lawrence Bush Sung to the tune of “Khanike, O Khanike” KHANIKE AMERICA Come light the menorah We all need a miracle So come, we implore ya Light a light for every house that’s been lost Banks too big to fail while millions get tossed
Read MoreKinderlekh (Children)
Our Winter 2016-17 Arts Calendar Editorial THIS YEAR’S Jewish Currents Arts Calendar is built upon the theme, “Kinderlekh” (the Yiddish diminutive for children) to express our hopes for a thriving and inclusive future for our children and our grandchildren — and for their children and grandchildren. But what hopes for the future can we cling […]
Read MoreA Transcontinental Spin on an Ancient Festival
CONNECTING ACROSS LANDS, ACROSS GENERATIONS FOR KHANIKE by Linda Gritz A RESOURCE FROM JEWISH CURRENTS’ SCHAPPES CENTER FOR CULTURAL JEWISH LIFE. Sponsored, in part, by the Kurz Family Foundation. Reprinted from the 2011 Jewish Currents Winter Supplement. FOUR GENERATIONS of our mishpokhe (family) are spread around the country, from Boston to New York to St. […]
Read MoreThe Peasants Are Revolting!
WHY THE LIBERAL ELITE DOESN’T TALK TO THE DEPLORABLES by George Salamon “The calculus of material well-being…hinges on an historic assumption that between the world of culture and the realities of life for the masses there is an unbridgeable gulf.” —Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class (1972) THE LIBERAL elite supporting […]
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Read MoreNomi Prins and the Demons of Wall Street
by Dusty Sklar IF THERE’S ONE person in America who can write clearly about the financial world and its horrors and abuses, it’s Nomi Prins. A former managing director at Goldman Sachs and senior managing director at Bear Stearns, she also held senior positions at Lehman Brothers and Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is a very […]
Read MoreThe Uncivil Servant: Hillary Clinton’s Scolds
IF HILLARY Clinton’s supporters wanted to confirm their image as irrelevant relics they couldn’t have done better than they have over the past few days. Madeleine Albright’s “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” and Gloria Steinem’s “When you’re young you’re thinking, where are the boys, and the boys […]
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