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CONTENTS November-December 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints

- Letters
- America, Bleeding
- Iran’s Ambitions, Israel’s Fears
Lawrence Bush
- A Dank!

Articles

- Analyzing Lithuanian Anti-Semitism
Geoff Vasil
- Jewish Secularism in France
Nadia Malinovich
- My Life in Books, 2008
Esther Cohen
Columns
- The View from Israel
Who Counts?
Amy Klein
- Mameloshn
Two Poems by Avrom Reyzn
Translated by Barnett Zumoff
- Our Secular Jewish Heritage
Ab. Cahan Meets Friedrich Engels
Yankl Stillman
- Radical Yiddish
Pesach Burstein’s Peace Plan
Joel Schechter
- Concealed/Revealed
Essays about Jerusalem
- In Memoriam
Bennett Muraskin

Reviews

–Defending the Sixties
Lawrence Bush on The Sixties Unplugged
–Wrestling with Righteousness
Diana Scott on Righteous Indignation
Poetry, Fiction and Art
–As a Christmas Present I Got Myself a Menorah
Angelo Taranta
–Hanuka on the Lebanese Border at Kibbutz Yiron
I. Century
–Zeyde
Alan Holder

–The First Hundred Days
Solomon Chigrinsky

CONTENTS September-October 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints

- Letters
- Will Jews Be Part of the
New Progressive Movement?
- Iran’s Ambitions, Israel’s Fears
Lawrence Bush
- Two Dead Israelis
Miriam Jochnowitz DaLuz
- ‘Investigating’ Jewish Partisans in Lithuania
Sara Ginaite

Articles

- J Street Paves Its Own Way
Nicholas Jahr
- Jews and the Left: A Natural Alliance?
Bennett Muraskin
- Jewish Burials in an Age of Ecological Crisis
Joysa Winter
- Troublemakers
Janice Eidus
Columns
- It Happened In Israel
Waiting on the West Bank
Amy Klein
- Religion and Skepticism
Science and Boundaries:
An Interview with Bernard Bulkin
Lawrence Bush
- New Jewish Rituals
You Say Sukkot and I Say Sukes
Linda Gritz
- Our Secular Jewish Heritage
S. Anski, Jewish Folklorist
Yankl Stillman
- Concealed/Revealed
Essays about Rabbis
- The Rootless Cosmopolitan
Vilne, Whispering
Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews

–The Marketplace and the Peace Process
Meyer Rothberg on The Hebrew Republic
–“Why Don’t You Write My Story?”
Carol Jochnowitz on Call Her Blessed
Poetry, Fiction and Art
–On Learning that Rosh Hashone
Is the Birthday of Our First Parents
Yala Korwin
–Rudolf Rocker’s Arbeter Fraynt
Joel Schechter and Spain

CONTENTS July - August 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints

- Uniting to End Poverty Means
Uniting to End the War
- Coming Together as Secular Jews
- The Mathematics of Peace
Ralph Seliger

Articles

- The Contemporary Meaning of the
Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference
An Interview with Emanuel S. Goldsmith
- The Spirit of Czernowitz:
Khayim Zhitlovsky and the International
Yiddish Culture Congress of 1937
Matthew Hoffman
- Solomon Mikhoels: When Madness Ruled
Lyber Katz
- On the Life and Work of Enid Dame
Donald Lev

Columns

- Forshpayzn
- Follow-Up
- It Happened In Israel
Among the Bedouin of the Negev
Sue Swartz
- Mameloshn
Two Poems by Perets Markish
Translated by Barnett Zumoff
- Radical Yiddish
Celia Adler’s Advice to the Players
Joel Schechter
- Our Secular Jewish Heritage
Tishe Bov and Mournful Days of Jewish History
Yankl Stillman
- In Memoriam
Bennett Muraskin on Milton Wolff, Howard Metzenbaum, Mildred Loving
- Concealed/Revealed
Essays about Doctors
- The Rootless Cosmopolitan
Jews Without Hearts
Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews

– Jesus and Judas
George Jochnowitz on The Gospel of Judas

Poetry, Fiction and Art

– Nadezhda Memorizing Mandelshtam’s Poems
Muriel Harris Weinstein
– Two Poems
David Gershator
– WASPS!
Lawrence Bush
- Old Faithful . . . Letter to Detroit
Barbara Bialick
- Cordless
Marvin Friedman
- Thirty-Six Sentences on Lamed Vovniks
Mikhail Horowitz

CONTENTS May - June 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints

– Letters
– Party Poopers at Israel’s 60th An Editorial
– Israel’s West Bank Settlements: A Still-Reversible Mistake Philip Mendes
– The Manhattan Project Spy Carol Jochnowitz

Articles

– Forty Years — Are We Out of the Wilderness Yet? Arthur Waskow
– With Achad Ha’am on the Road to Ramallah Michael Cooper
– A Love Letter to Haifa Sue Swarz
– How About We Just Watch Some TV? Lawrence Bush
– Yiddish Los Angeles and the Birth of Latino Politics Kenneth C. Burt

Columns

– NEW JEWISH RITUALS
The Evolution of New Holidays Peter Schweitzer
– OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE
Freydke Sutzkever, Partisan Angel Yankl Stillman
– RADICAL YIDDISH
Nit Gedayget Joel Schechter
– CONCEALED/REVEALED
Jews and Shoes Esther Cohen, Solomon Chigrinsky, Richard Hirsh, Marvin Malinow
– THE ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITAN
Native Yiddish Seekers Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews
– But Is It Jewish? Moti Rieber on Jews and American Popular Culture
– The Latest from Biblical Archaeology Barnett Zumoff on David and Solomon

Poetry, Fiction and Art

– The High Priestess Laurie Ludmer
– Love Me Now David Marell
– The soup years Carol V. Davis

CONTENTS March - April 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints

– Letters
– Blood on the Doorposts
– Don’t You Yet Realize that Egypt Is Being Destroyed?"
– 8^1/2 PlanetsLawrence Bush
– MLK or LBJArthur Waskow

Articles

– The Free Clinics of the Psychoanalytic MovementDavid James Fisher
– Human Solidarity in Hell John Ranz
– Posters from the Vilna GhettoNikolai Borodulin
– Relatives Susan Gold
– Bob Dylan: Reconciliation and AtonementMarek Breiger
– A Little Bit of CultchaEsther Cohen

Columns

– FOLLOW-UP
– THE VIEW FROM ISRAEL
The Russians Have Come! (Part 2)Amy Klein
– RELIGION AND SKEPTICISM
The Case Against GodMitchell Silver
– MAMELOSHN
Poems by Avrom SutzkeverTranslated by Myra Mniewski
– OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE
The Yiddish Thesaurus and Nahum StutchkoffYankl Stillman
– IN MEMORIAM
Bennett Muraskin
– AROUND THE WORLD
Visiting the AbayudayaRobert Kaplan
– THE ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITAN
“The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere”Rokhl Kafrissen

Reviews

– The Jewish RainbowJudith Rosenbaum on The Colors of Jews
– Charles Reznikoff’s TestimoniesIan Dreiblatt on Holocaust

Poetry, Fiction and Art

– AfikomenSheri Lindner
– The Coup de GraceLawrence Fogel-Bublick
– A Jewish Writer Repairs a Small German CarBen-David Seligman
– Victims and SurvivorsLenny Emmanuel
– A PremonitionShirley Adelman
– Hitler’s FalconSherman Pearl
– The PeacemakerSolomon Chigrinsky

CONTENTS January - February 2008

Editorials and Viewpoints

– Letters
– At the Corner of MLK Boulevard and Rosa Parks Place
– Anti-Semitism: A Tale of Two CountriesMiriam Miedzian

Articles

– Welfare Reform: The Untold Success StoryRobert Cherry
– Responding to Robert Cherry: Is This the Best We Can Do?Lawrence Bush
– Do Not Minimize the Gains Made by Poor Americans Robert Cherry
– Leftists and the Civil Rights Movement Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
– Visiting Israel and the Occupied Territories Mike Felsen
– Two Conferences: CSJO and IAYC Bennett Muraskin and Harold Ticktin

Columns

– FOR BETTER OR VERSE
Henry Foner
– THE VIEW FROM ISRAEL
The Russians Have Come! The Russians Have Come! (Part 2)Amy Klein
– NEW JEWISH RITUALS
Secular Jewish WeddingsPeter Schweitzer
– OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)Yankl Stillman
– AROUND THE WORLD
The Dönmeh of TurkeyElif Kayi

Reviews

– What Would Emma Read?Joel Schechter on new radical comics

Poetry, Fiction and Art

– friday afternoon the jewish tailor's shop rue laurier Robert Lovitt
– Strictly Leftist Jake Marmer
– When Grace Paley DiedSherman Pearl
– Mrs. Finkelstein Michael Humfrey
– Three Talmudic PassagesLawrence Bush

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