Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
Arthur Hertzberg, a champion of Jewish liberalism and independent thought who led the American Jewish Congress, stoked Jewish support for the civil rights movement, called for Palestinian statehood...
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If It’s Not Genocide, What Word Should We Use?
A DISSENT FROM OUR EDITORIAL ON THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PLATFORM by Dorothy Zellner From the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents I TAKE ISSUE with the Jewish Currents editorial, “Supporting the Black...
View ArticleThe Short Season, Part 2
HUSTLING FULL-TIME IN THE CATSKILLS by Elliot Podwill To read Part 1, click here. THE SOCIAL DARWINIAN universe we inhabited filtered down to adolescent social mores. A friend in high school was on...
View ArticleOpposing Segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas began to integrate its public schools on this date in 1959 while segregationists rallied at the State Capitol and then marched to Central High School, where police arrested...
View Article“Marshall”— Civil Rights and Old-Fashioned Shul Jews
by Elliot B. Gertel Discussed in this essay: Marshall, a film directed by directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Michael and Jacob Koskoff. THE WELL-WRITTEN and finely-acted movie Marshall may have...
View ArticleSix Million Ku Klux Klansmen
by Dusty Sklar Discussed in this essay: The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, by Linda Gordon. Liveright, 2017, 288 pages. THE KU KLUX...
View ArticleAnti-Occupation Activists Undeterred By Israel’s Blacklist
Photo courtesy of Solidarity of Nations – Achvat Amim by Emily C. Bell ISRAEL HAS ABRUPTLY closed the door on members of twenty organizations that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: The Woman Who Popularized “Ms.”
by Bennett Muraskin ALTHOUGH Ms. magazine is most identified with Gloria Steinem, the woman who most popularized the term “Ms.” was Sheila Michaels (1939-2017). The word enabled women to be...
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In Memoriam: Julius Lester
by Bennett Muraskin JULIUS LESTER (January 29, 1939-January 18, 2018) embodied the historic Black-Jewish bond in America, as well as Black-Jewish tensions, in his work as a prolific writer, folk...
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Remembering the Battle to Integrate Levittown
by Zachary Solomon LAST YEAR, George Clooney’s Suburbicon, the sixth film that the actor has directed, bombed at the box office. Suburbicon was a combination of two scripts, one a neglected crime...
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