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IN THE INTENSE NOW AND MAY ’68 IN FRANCE by Mitchell Abidor WE ARE JUST a few months from the fiftieth anniversary of the events of May ‘68, the great uprising that seemed as if it would topple the French ruling class but which, in the long run, proved that ruling class’s flexibility and strength. […]
Read Moreby Mike Isaacson ENDING A YEAR of legal proceedings, the prosecution of a group of Trump inauguration-day protesters concluded last week with the acquittal of all the accused. Six of the 194 defendants faced upwards of sixty years in prison for attending a January 20th inauguration-day anti-Trump march. The stakes of the “J20” trial were immense. […]
Read Moreby Sparrow Overheard on the Bus “We used to be Republicans, but now we believe the chaotic improvisations of Donald Trump.” Rumors The rumors that Donald Trump has a prosthetic anus (made of gold) are false.
Read MoreWHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEIR HISTORY by Hershl Hartman Published in the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents MY BOLSHEVIK MOTHER in 1929 named me Hirsh Naftoli — not after departed grandfathers or uncles, but after two assassins of the diverse Socialist movements in Eastern Europe. You may have heard of one or both of them: […]
Read MoreIN ISRAEL AND THE U.S. by Liya Rechtman WHAT DOES IT MEAN to protest when no one is listening? Or when our act of protest is portrayed as running counter to the “will of the people”? As I sit in Jerusalem watching the age of Trump unfold, it can feel like the walls are closing in. Here […]
Read MoreGeorge Mandel-Mantello (1901-1992), a Jewish businessman from Bucharest who was appointed honorary consul for El Salvador in 1939 and used his status to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis, sent another diplomat and friend, Dr. Florian Manoliu, from Switzerland to Hungary to deliver papers for safe passage to Mandel-Mantello’s family on this date in 1944. Their effort came too […]
Read MoreA TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE TO A HOLOCAUST MEMOIR by Jonah Sampson Boyarin from the Spring 2017 issue of Jewish Currents I WAS IN BETWEEN literature classes and field chores at Yiddish Farm in the summer of 2015, sipping tea in the informal little library in upstate New York, when my eyes were drawn to a […]
Read MoreBreadth of Resistance! Unity of Purpose? An Editorial from the Spring 2017 issue of Jewish Currents FOR THE MAJORITY of Americans who voted against Trump, his lies, his appointments, his executive orders, and his all-around autocratic ugliness have been so appalling that it is easy to infer a broad sense of unity rooted simply in […]
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor MY INBOX is full of emails referring to “resistance” to Trump, his regime, and its measures. Jewish Currents’ Blog-Shmog has a piece by the veteran activist Richard Greeman entitled “Popular Resistance to the Trump Regime.” I received an email this morning from CAIR –- the Council on American-Islamic Relations — laying out […]
Read Moreby Richard Greeman THE MASSIVE, SPONTANEOUS, popular resistance to Trump that poured into the streets in the giant post-Inauguration Women’s March had been welling up since election night. With Trump and his ruthless, racist, reactionary White House gang now in power, our diverse, multiform, self-organized resistance has its work cut out for it. The Trump […]
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