Jewish Currents Vol. 57, No. 1 (616), January-February, 2003 - Vol. 57, No. 6 (621), November-December, 2003.
New York: Jewish Currents, Inc., 2003. Hardbound. Octavo, brown cloth with gold lettering, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 72 pp., cumulative index. Very Good. Item #102994
Articles in the issue 1 are, "Editorial: Changes at Jewish Currents," "Editorial: Terror and Two Elections," "The Real COsts of war," Ben Cohen, "For Mideast Pace: Investment, not Divestment," Mordechai Liebling, "Martin Luther King's Birthday as Yontif," Chaia Lehrer, "It Happened in Israel: Is Pioneering Really over?" Yiyzkhak Luden, "Jewish Beauty and Body Image," Lori Lefkowitz, "Religion and Skepticism," Lawrence Bush, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: From Klezmer-Fiddler to Concert Violinist," Jeffrey Wollock, "Moe Foner Forever," Esther Cohen, "Demographics and Democracy in the Jewish State," Bennett Muraskin, "A Secular Approach to Tu B'Shvat," Judith Seid, "Celebrting Yiddishkayrt with the workman's Circle," Adrienne Cooper, "Chosen Words," Michael Taub on Nest Contemporary Jewish Writing, "Poetic Mentschlikhkayt," Henry Jacobs on poetry by Richard Fein, "Essays about Paul Robeson," Annette T. Rubenstein, "Waking Pains," Story by Paul Beckman.
Articles in issue 3#2 are "Editorial: Pharaoh in the White House," "Editoial: Mobilizing to Support Israeli Peace Candidates," "For Intervention to End the Israeli-Palestine Conflict," Ralp Seliger, "Responding to AIDS in Africa," Sidney Becke, "Jewish Cultural Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto," Yankl Stillman, "Jewish Women Now: AN Activist Scholar Examines Her Life," Estelle Holt, "Religion and Skepticism," Lawrence Bush, "Pope Pius XII and the Christmas Broadcast,' Robert G. Weisbord, "Jewish Cinema at rhe Hamptons," ruth and Archie Perlmutter, "Stefan Wolpe; He Embodied the Joy in Music," Jeffrey Sussman, "'Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins,'" Abbott Gorin on Arafat's Elephant, "A Teenager's War Diary in the USSR," Linda Gritz on Girl with Two Landscapes," Smoke Don't forget," Bernard Otterman, "Three Poems," Jaimee Kuperman.
Articles in issue #3 are "Editrial: Challenging Bush, Challenging Ourselves," "Editorial: Treason and Patriotism in Today's America," Robert Meeropol, "Redifining 'Unaffiliated Jews,'" Sue Feder, "Our Secular Jewish Herutage: Pacifism and Secular Values," Mitchell Silver, "Mameloshn: Yiddish Poetry in the Original, in Transliterationand in Translation," "Anti-Semitism in France: Facts and exaggerations,' Si resnick, "My Son the College Applicant," Esther Cohen, ":Worker's Housing in the bronx," Ruth Singer, "Shakespeare in the Mameloshn," Leo Summergard on Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, "Writers of the American Left," Paul Buhle on Exiles from a Future Time, "On My Knees at Your Grave," David Zeiger, "Lying Mirros," Morris Rubin, "Bagel Boy Blue," Aaron E. Freeman, "Between the Rocks and the Hardest Places," Daniel Gradess.
Articles in issue #4 are "Editorial: A Mousehole of Opportunity," "Take Back America," Martin Schwartz, "Jewish Women Now: Jewish Women in the Catskills," Ruth Lehrer, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: Surviving Stalinism: An Interview with Vladimir Talmy," Yankl Stillman, "Radicalism and Jewish Values," Lawrence Bush, "Presenting the Fifth Moishe Katz Award," Abbott Gorin, "Jewish Secularism, Then and Now," Judith Seid, "Survivors: A Memoir," Ralph Seliger, "Human nature and Leftwing Politics," George Jochnowitz on The Blank Slate, "The Abel Meeropol Centennial," Leonarr Lehrman, "Jewish-Palestnan Conflict on Stage,' Joseph Dimow, "Vinnitsa," Marina rubin, "Malka at Ninety," Joan Seliger Siney.
Articles in issue #5 are "Jewish Liberalism Under Stress," "Up Against the Wall," Alice Rothchild, "Suicide Bombings: Oppression is no Justification," Philip Mendes, "It Happened in Israel: Conscientious Objectors and Resisters in Isreal," Michael Benazon, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: The Menorah Journal (1915-1962)," Bennett Muraskin, "Mameloshn: Yiddish Poetry 'Momento Mori,'" Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, "Jewish Women Now: Edith Segal an Radical Dance," Leanne Brotsky, "Making Service Fundamental to Jewish Life," Ruth W. Messinger, "Can a Secular Jew Observe the high Holidays?" Linda Gritz, "Jeiwsh Films in 2003, From Palm Springs to Berlin," Ruth and Archie Perlmutter, "An Interview with Daniel Libeskind," Stephen Yablon, Two Poems," Aron Stavisky, "Time for Change," Don Goldstein.
Articles in issue #6 are "Editorial: Candles Raised Against the Darkness," "Religion and Skepticism: Enhancing Our Sistinctons During Hanukkah," Guest Column by Robert Siegel, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: Tsarist Russia's First Yiddish Daily," Yankl Stillman, "Jewsh Women Now: Highlighting Important Jewish women," Estelle HHolt, "In Memoriam: Notable passings," Shaurain Farber, "Sex in the City - on Fifth Avenue, No Less," Pamela Vassil, "Jewish Concerns, Leftist Journals," Lawrence Bush, "Genes, Race and Socially Responsible Sceince," Inteview with Alan McGowan, "'Shir L'Shalom' - Remembering a Secular Jewish anthem," Leonard Lehrman, "A World in the World: Livng in Coops," Michal Goldman, "'Oppen' Readings: Visiting with Joseph Opatoshu," Judith Elton Dunn, "Abba Kovner's Struggle for Life," Sloan-Kettering Poems reviewed by Marc J. Straus, "The Jews Who Loved Chester, PA, Marvin Friedman," reiewed by Paul Buhle, "Introdcing a Modern Orthodox Sleuth: Blues in the Night," reviewed by Irene Marcuse, "A Mystery in New Mexico; Land of the Burning Heat," reviewed by Lyber katz, "All in the Family:A Bad Friend," reviewed by Ralph Seliger, "Love in an Unemployment Office: Dummy," reviewed by Yankl Stillman, "An Old Steam Engine," Aaron E. Freeman, "Feast," Joan Weiss Digby, "Siter's Keeper," Deborah Silverman, "My Mother's Eyes," Shirley Adelman, "Rosalia Arranges Her Death," Henry Glickman, "Tzaddik," Jonathan A. Goldberg.
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