Jewish Currents Vol. 60, No. 1 (634), January-February, 2006 - Vol. 60, No. 6 (639), November-December, 2006.
New York: Jewish Currents, Inc., 2006. Hardbound. Octavo, brown cloth with gold lettering, 48, 96, 48, 48, 48, 48 pp., cumulative index. Very Good. Item #102997
Articles in the issue 1 are, "Editorial: Discussing Socialism," "Editorial: For Dr. King's Holiday,Separate Rhetoric from Reality," "Editorial: A Sea Change in Israel?" "How American Jes can Aid the Peace Process," Ralph Seliger, "Editorial: We're Sizty Years Old - and We're Getting Married!" "It Happened in Israel: The Kibbutzim, They Are A-Changin'," guet colum by Bernard Bellush, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: The Remarkable Water Carriers," guest column by Hesel Klepfisz, "Venezuela's 'Socialism for the 21st Century,'" Bob Cartwrightm "THe Temptations of Nationalism," Lawrence Bush, "Chasing Marx (and Lincoln) Across London," Harold Ticktin, "Adah Isaacs Menken: The naked Lady," Barbara and Michael Foster, "Humanism and Politics," Bennett Muraskin on 'Toward a New Political Humanism,' "Mystical Muddles," Henry S. Glickman on 'Between Rationality and Irrationality,' "Will Eisner's Last Testament," Joel Schechter on 'The Plot,' "Two Poems on Women's Resistance," David Walders, "Chayale Ash's Day in Court," Joel Schechter and Spain.
Articles in issue #2 are "Editorial: 'Seek Peace and Pursue It,'" "Editorial: Coping With Hamas," "A Rabbi Investigates in Sudan" Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, "What This Marriage Means," Peter Pepper, "It Happened in Israel: An Experiment in Integration," Susan M. Susser, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: AN Early Peysekh," Story by Sholem Aleichem, "Religion and Skepticism: Secularims, Then and Now," guest column by Barett Zumoff, "Getting It Together: The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism," Edward J. Klein, "Making Friends with Israel," Lawrence Bush, "Commemorating the Uprising," Linda Gritz, "Yiddishkayt and Popular American Culture," Paul Buhle, "The Holocaust and the New York Times," George Jochnowitz on 'Buried by the Times,' "A Forgotten Concentration Camp for Women," Isaac Arbus on 'The Women of Ravensbruck'' "The Red Scare and the Red Menace," Gerald Sorin on 'Reds,' "Encor for Brundibar," Joel Schechter on 'Brundibar,' "Three Poems about Passover," Naomi Rothberg, "Yiddish Midterm," Kathryn Hellerstein, "Hebrw Sorrow," Florence Weinberger, "The Danziger Covenant," Bob Levy, "Scents," Sheri Lindner, "It Can't Happen Here (In Yiddish)," Joel Schechter and Spain.
Articles in isue #3 are "Editorial: Reproductive Righs and the Common Good," Editorial: The Masses Are Not Asses," "Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum: Going Head to Head with the Religious Right," A Jewsh Currents Interview, "They Stood Up: Rosa Parks and Virginia Durr," Dorothy M. Zellner, "Making Friends with Israel, Part 2," Lawrence Bush, "How Broadway Misread Golda Meir," Ralph Seliger, "It Happened in Israel: Israel's Electoral Culture," "Mameloshn: Two Poems by Anna Margolin," translated by Richard Fein, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: A Journey to Yiddishland," Yankl Stillman, "Sholem Bayes (Household Harmony)," Lou Charloff, "The You-All Avenger," Paul Silverman, "Be There," Adele Mishan, "Leo Fuchs in Trouble," Joel Shcechter and Spain, "New American Proverbs," Solomon Chigrinsky.
Articles in issue #4 are "Editorial"'Pro-Israel' Politics and the Mearsheimer-Walt Paper, "Democrary's Ghosts," Cole Krawitz, "Holocasut Restituton and the Claims Conferece," Danel Kadden, "Birobidzhan:A Remnant of History," Henry Srebrnik, "From Birobidzhan to New York: A Romance with Yiddish," Nikolai Borodulin, "Histories of Violence," Munich, Sophe Scholl and Paradise Now," Ralph Seliger, "It Happened in Israel: Naftali's Diary," Susan M. Susser, "Mameloshn: Two Poems by Tsilye Dropkin," translated by Barnett Zumoff, "Religion an Skepticism: 'There Is No God, and Mordecai Kaplan is His Prophet,'" Lawrence Bush, "Getting It Together: Jewish Women Writers' Conference," Sheri Lindner, "The Rootless Cosmopolitan: The 'Sphere of the Endless,'" Rokhl Kafrissen, "Ben zakkai in the Coffin," Marc Jampole, "Bennie & Rosia," John Kay, "A Poem about Nothing," David A. Victor, "Robeson Sings Yiddish," Josel Schechter and Spain, "On My Eightieth Birthday," Mueiel Harris Weinstein.
Articles in issue #5 are "Editorial" Word to Israel: Seek Mercy as Well as Justice, in Lebanon," "Editoril: Branch 1907," "Technicolor Jews," Ben Murare, "Global Development and the United Nations," Nora Simpson, "The Return of the Radical right in Poland," Brian Porter, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: Jacob Landau: The Humanizing Force of Art," Yankl Stillman, "Getting It Together: The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations," Lawrence Schofer and Bennett Muraskin, "The Rootless Cosmopolitan: If Loving Jews Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right," Rokhl Kafrissen, "Secular Jewishness vs. Assimilation," Mitchell Silver on 'Secular Jeiwshness for Our Time,' "Kabbalah for a New Age," Henry Glickman on 'Connecting to God,' "Zelda's Compelling Poetic Voice," Steven Sher on 'The Spectacular Difference,' "Seeking Refuge in Chna," George Jochnowitz on 'Shanghai Dairy, "George W. Bush Prepares for Atonement on Yom Kippur," Solomn Chigrinsky, "When oshiakh Comes," Lawrence Bush, "Familial Ground: Self Portaits," Rafael Goldchain, "Sara Laughs," Miriam Boral, "Scenes from Gan Ededn," Josel Schechter and Spain.
Articles in issue #6 are "Editorial: 'Sorry, I Didn't recognize You!'" "Israeli Media and Public Opinion," Jewish Currents Interview, "Proletpen and American Yddish Poetry," Dovid Katz, "More Years More Boks," Esther Cohen, "The People's Docor, Benzon Lieber," Bennett Muraskin, "Momma's Drams Come True," Ruth Ost, "It Happened in Israel: Jalaal Abu Toameh: In Memoriam," Susan M. Susser, "Mameloshn: Two Poems by Mani Leyb," translated by Emanuel S. Goldsmith an Barnett Zumoff, "Our Secular Jewish Heritage: Itche Goldberg on Khayim Zhitlovsky," Yankl Stillman, "Getting t Together: International Asscoaition of Yiddish Clubs," Barnett Zumoff, "The rootless Cosmopolitan: The Klezkanada Incubator," Rokhl Kafrissen, "Political Actiism and Personal Choice," Moti Riber on 'Not Buying It,' "ighting an Survivng," Bernard Kransdorf on 'Voice from the Forst,' "Grandpa," Ralph Dranow, "Mark Twain Translated," Joel Schechter and Spain.
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