Jewish Identity Without “Otherness”
RESISTING THE LURE OF “WHITENESS” by Michael Mirer From the Spring 2017 issue of Jewish Currents TO DEFINE Jewish American identity is to invite disagreement. Each definition threatens to efface or...
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What It Means to Be Jew-ish
A FILIPINO CONVERSIO’S JEWISH SCHOOL YEAR by Regine Guevara A year into my Master’s program in Coexistence and Conflict Resolution at Brandeis University outside Boston, I found my peace of mind. I...
View ArticleIsaac Deutscher Redux
THE NON-JEWISH JEW REVISITED by Michael Mirer Discussed in this essay: The Non-Jewish Jew, and Other Essays, by Isaac Deutscher. Published in a 50th anniversary edition by Verso, 2017, 176 pages....
View ArticleOn Kippot and Counter-Protests
by Allison Darcy I BOUGHT this covering of blue beads to teach in; I had declared learning as the sacred thing it is. I wear it now, try to brush my hair around it in a way I feel beautiful in, give...
View ArticleHebrew as the Language of the Progressive Jewish Future
THE YIDDISH REVIVAL SIDESTEPS TODAY’S REALITY by Rafi Ellenson IN LEARNING YIDDISH, the language of our past, we should not neglect the language of our future: Modern Hebrew. The radical and dynamic...
View ArticleWednesday Night Fiction: “The Tsar’s Soldier”
by Curt Leviant THIS IS THE STORY my father, Ya’akov, told me. He had heard it from his grandfather, Chaim, who was there in the Russian shtetl when the event took place, during the reign of the...
View ArticleWhy Be Anything? Why Be Jewish?
THE JEWISH-UNIVERSALIST DILEMMA by Adam Chalom from the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents ONE HUNDRED and thirty years ago, a new language was born. It had regular rules and simple grammar, and...
View ArticleZemirovsky’s Flight from the Juif
ASSIMILATION AND DISSIMULATION by Zelda Gamson Discussed in this essay: The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France, by Susan Rubin Suleiman. Yale...
View Article“Blessed Pizza,” a Story
by Jeff Greenberg HOW HE CAME to be locked into the sanctuary alone overnight was a story he would tell over and over. In truth it was a mix of serendipity and stupidity. The evening was late. The...
View ArticleSome Jews No Longer Qualify . . .
by Allan Lichtenstein SINCE I AM an Israeli citizen, Israel’s recent decision last March to ban entry to members of certain Jewish activist groups will not affect me. When the ban passed the Israeli...
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A Fascinating Revamp at the Jewish Museum
by Dan Grossman “SCENES from the Collection,” the first permanent exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum in over twenty-five years, pulls off the triumphant feat of being both rooted and...
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Arrested in Defense of Treaty Rights
A CONVERSATION WITH MARILYN KIMMERLING OF TACOMA DIRECT ACTION By Stephen Quirke IN THE EARLY MORNING of May 17, 2017, six people entered a construction site at the Port of Tacoma, Washington, and...
View ArticleWe Are All Jews, But Where’s the Party?
by Marty Roth Discussed in this essay: Feeling Jewish (a Book for Just About Anyone) by Deborah Baum. Yale University Press, 2017, 296 pages. “Modernization . . . is about everyone becoming Jewish...
View ArticleNext Year in New Jersey
by Rebecca Boroson “THIS IS A NIGHT for Elijah,” says 7-year-old Bram. The wind is battering the trees and sending the clouds running for cover. And it does, indeed, seem like a night for the...
View ArticlePassing Over and Out of India
An India Travelogue, Part 13 by Lawrence Bush Click for Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. WE ARE CUTTING SHORT our trip to India, with one week left (which would have involved a trip...
View ArticleWednesday Night Fiction: “The Tsar’s Soldier”
by Curt Leviant THIS IS THE STORY my father, Ya’akov, told me. He had heard it from his grandfather, Chaim, who was there in the Russian shtetl when the event took place, during the reign of the...
View ArticleWhy Be Anything? Why Be Jewish?
THE JEWISH-UNIVERSALIST DILEMMA by Adam Chalom from the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents ONE HUNDRED and thirty years ago, a new language was born. It had regular rules and simple grammar, and...
View ArticleZemirovsky’s Flight from the Juif
ASSIMILATION AND DISSIMULATION by Zelda Gamson Discussed in this essay: The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France, by Susan Rubin Suleiman. Yale...
View Article“Blessed Pizza,” a Story
by Jeff Greenberg HOW HE CAME to be locked into the sanctuary alone overnight was a story he would tell over and over. In truth it was a mix of serendipity and stupidity. The evening was late. The...
View ArticleSome Jews No Longer Qualify . . .
by Allan Lichtenstein SINCE I AM an Israeli citizen, Israel’s recent decision last March to ban entry to members of certain Jewish activist groups will not affect me. When the ban passed the Israeli...
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