A  Secular, Progressive Bimonthly
May - June 2005
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Religion and Skepticism
Can Secularism Save Jewish Religion?

Guest column by Richard Hirsh
What We Face: Reasserting Liberal Values
Lawrence Bush

Our Secular Jewish Heritage
The Progressive Vision of Albert Einstein
Yankl Stillman
Irving Howe and Secular Jewishness

Gerald Sorin
Editorials
Ending Capital Punishment
Settlements or Settlement?
Free Higher Education

Bennett Muraskin
Viewpoints
Fair Elections? Maybe Next Time
Miles Rapoport


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  Reviews
A Biography of Yiddish
Moti Rieber on Dovid Katz and Aaron Lansky
The Book You Always Meant to Write
Marissa Piesman on Book Doctor
The Heroism of the “Forest Jews”
Annette T. Rubinstein on The Bielski Brothers
Harvey Pekar’s Real-Life Comics
Paul Buhle on The Best of American Splendor
  Poetry
Seedpods  Sheri Lindner
Modicut’s Dybbuk  Joel Schechter and Spain
 

Getting It Together: Reports from Left Field
American Humanist Association Conference
report by Judith Seid

Plus these regular columns:

 
  • For Better or Verse  Henry Foner
  • Joseph Dimow   Inside the Jewish Community
  • Lyber Katz        Around the World
  • Susan M. Susser It Happened in Israel
     
    Israel’s Troubled Ethiopian Community

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