Jewish Currents CONTENTS  2006
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   CONTENTS  January - February 2006
Editorials and Viewpoints
 3 In This Issue: Discussing Socialism
 3 For Dr. King's Holiday, Separate Rhetoric from Reality
 5 A Sea Change in Israel?
 6 How American Jews Can Aid the Peace Process  Ralph Seliger
48 We're Sixty Years Old — and We're Getting Married!

Columns
 5 For Better or Verse  Henry Foner
 7 It Happened in Israel:
    The Kibbutzim, They Are A-Changin'  Guest column by Bernard Bellush
28 Our Secular Jewish Heritage:
    The Remarkable Water Carriers  Guest column by Heszel Klepfisz
39 Around the World  Lyber Katz
45 The Rootless Cosmopolitan  Rokhl Kafrissen

Articles
10 Venezuela's "Socialism for the 21st Century"  Bob Cartwright
17 The Temptations of Nationalism  Lawrence Bush
21 Chasing Marx (and Lincoln) Across London  Harold Ticktin
25 Adah Isaacs Menken: The Naked Lady  Barbara and Michael Foster

Reviews
31 Bennett Muraskin on "Toward a New Political Humanism"
34 Henry S. Glickman on "Between Rationality and Irrationality"
37 Will Eisner's Last Testament  Joel Schechter on "The Plot"

Poetry and Art
 9 Two Poems of Women's Resistance  Davi Walders
47 Chayale Ash's Day in Court  Joel Schechter and Spain
 

   CONTENTS  March - April 2006
Editorials and Viewpoints
 3 "Seek Peace and Pursue It"
 5 Coping with Hamas
 7 A Rabbi Investigates in Sudan Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
96 What This Marriage Means  Peter Pepper

Columns
 6  For Better or Verse  Henry Foner
10 It Happened in Israel      An Experiment in Integration Susan M. Susser
47 Our Secular Jewish Heritage  An Early Peysekh Story by Sholem Aleichem
54 Religion and Skepticism
    Secularism, Then and Now  Guest column by Barnett Zumoff
70 Getting it Together
    The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism  Edward J. Klein
85 Around the World  Lyber Katz
92 The Rootless Cosmopolitan  Rokhl Kafrissen

Articles
13 Making Friends with Israel  Lawrence Bush
23 Commemorating the Uprising  Linda Gritz
35 Yiddishkayt and Popular American Culture  Paul Buhle

Reviews
69 The Holocaust and the New York Times
     George Jochnowitz on "Buried by The Times"
73 A Forgotton Concentration Camp for Women
     Isaac Arbus on "The Women of Ravensbrück"
76 The Red Scare and the Red Menace  Gerald Sorin on "Reds"
79 Encore for Brundibar  Joel Schechter on "Brundibar"

Poetry, Fiction and Art
20 Three Poems about Passover  Naomi Rothberg
27 Yiddish Midterm  Kathryn Hellerstein
50 Hebrew Sorrow  Florence Weinberger
51 The Danzigger Covenant  Bob Levy
53 Scents  Sheri Lindner
95 It Can't Happen Here (in Yiddish)  Joel Schechter and Spain
 

   CONTENTS  May - June 2006
Editorials
 2 Letters from Our Readers
 3 Reproductive Rights and the Common Good
 4 The Masses Are Not Asses

Articles
 9 Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum: Going Head to Head with the Religious Right
   A Jewish Currents Interview
14 They Stood Up: Rosa Parks and Virginia Durr    Dorothy M. Zellner
19 Making Friends with Israel, Part 2   Lawrence Bush
26 How Broadway Misread Golda Meir  Ralph Seliger

Columns
 5 For Better or Verse  Henry Foner
 6 It Happened in Israel   Israel's Electoral Culture  Susan M. Susser
24 Mameloshn Two Poems by Anna Margolin Translated by Richard Fein
28 Our Secular Jewish Heritage A Journey to Yiddishland  Yankl Stillman
35 Around the World  Lyber Katz
42 In Memoriam
45 The Rootless Cosmopolitan Rokhl Kafrissen
Poetry, Fiction and Art
13 Sholem Bayes (Household Harmony) Lou Charloff
31 The You-All Avenger  Paul Silverman
33 Be There  Adele Mishan
47 Leo Fuchs in Trouble  Joel Schechter and Spain
48 New American Proverbs  Solomon Chigrinsky
 

   CONTENTS  July - August 2006
Editorials and Viewpoints
 2 Letters from Our Readers
 3 “Pro-Israel” Politics and the Mearsheimer-Walt Paper
 5 Democracy’s Ghosts  Cole Krawitz 

Articles
10 Holocaust Restitution and the Claims Conference  Daniel Kadden
16 Birobidzhan: A Remnant of History  Henry Srebrnik
18 From Birobidzhan to New York:A Romance with Yiddish  Nikolai Borodulin
30 From the Bandstand  Henry Foner
35 Histories of Violence:
    Munich, Sophie Scholl and Paradise Now  Ralph Seliger

Columns
 6 For Better or Verse   Henry Foner
 7 It Happened in Israel  Naftali’s Diary   Susan M. Susser
24 Mamelosohn  Two Poems by Tsilye Dropkin  Translated by Barnett Zumoff
26 Religion and Skepticism
    “There Is No God, and Mordecai Kaplan Is His Prophet”  Lawrence Bush
36 Getting it Together
    Jewish Women Writers’ Conference  Sheri Lindner
39 Around the World   Lyber Katz
45 The Rootless Cosmopolitan   The “Sphere of the Endless”  Rokhl Kafrissen

Poetry, Fiction and Art
 9 Ben Zakkai in the Coffin  Marc Jampole
14 Bennie & Rosia  John Kay
23 A Poem about Nothing  David A. Victor
47 Robeson Sings Yiddish  Joel Schechter and Spain
48 On My Eightieth Birthday  Muriel Harris Weinstein

 

   CONTENTS  September - October 2006
Editorials
 2 Letters from Our Readers
 3 Word to Israel: Seek Mercy, as Well as Justice, in Lebanon
 5 Branch 1907
 6 Technicolor Jews: Ben Murane

Articles
10 Global Development and the United Nations  Nora Simpson
14 The Return of the Radical Right in Poland  Brian Porter

Columns
 9  For Better or Verse  Henry Foner
20 Our Secular Jewish Heritage Jacob Landau: The Humanizing Force of Art
    Yankl Stillman
31 Getting It Together The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations
    Lawrence Schofer and Bennett Muraskin
45 The Rootless Cosmopolitan
    If Loving Jews Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right  Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
26 Secular Jewishness vs. Assimilation
    Mitchell Silver on "Secular Jewishness for Our Time"
29 Kabbalah for a New Age  Henry Glickman on "Connecting to God"
34 Zelda's Compelling Poetic Voice
    Steven Sher on "The Spectacular Difference"
36 Seeking Refuge in China  George Jochnowitz on "Shanghai Diary"
 
Poetry and Art
 9 George W. Bush Prepares His Atonement for Yom Kippur
    Solomon Chigrinsky
18 When Moshiakh Comes  Lawrence Bush
24 Familial Ground: Self-Portraits  Rafael Goldchain
35 Sarah Laughs   Miriam Boral
47 Scenes from Gan Eden  Joel Schechter and Spain
 

   CONTENTS  November - December 2006
Editorials
   2 Letters from Our Readers
  3 "Sorry, I Didn't Recognize You!" 
Articles
  8 Israeli Media and Public Opinion: A Jewish Currents Interview
12 Proletpen and American Yiddish Poetry  Dovid Katz
17 More Years More Books   Esther Cohen
20 The People's Doctor, Benzion Liber   Bennett Muraskin
22 Momma's Dream Come True    Ruth Ost

Columns
 4 For Better or Verse   Henry Foner
 5 It Happened in Israel Jalaal Abu Toameh: In Memoriam  Susan M. Susser
24 Mameloshn  Two Poems by Mani Leyb
    Translated by Emanuel S. Goldsmith and Barnett Zumoff
26 Our Secular Jewish Heritage  Itche Goldberg on Khayim Zhitlovsky
     Yankl Stillman
35 Getting It Together: International Association of Yiddish Clubs
     Barnett Zumoff
42 Around the World   Lyber Katz
45 The Rootless Cosmopolitan: The Klezkanada Incubator
     Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
31 Political Activism and Personal Choice: Moti Rieber on Not Buying It
36 Fighting and Surviving: Bernard Kransdorf on Voices From The Forest
 
Poetry and Art
30 Grandpa  Ralph Dranow
47 Mark Twain Translated  Joel Schechter and Spain
 

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