Jewish Currents May

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