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The “Double Genocide” Theory
THE NEW AND OFFICIAL FORM OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL by Dovid Katz from the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents Photo at top: A scene from the June 1941 Lietukis Garage Massacre in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania....
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WHY THE TORAH REMAINS AN OPEN BOOK by Reba Carmel Moses received the Torah at Sinai and he transmitted it to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets...
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WITH NOTHING PLAUSIBLE TO TAKE ITS PLACE by Ron Skolnik Published in the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents A “REAR PROJECTION EFFECT” is the term used for the old movie-making technique that...
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Turkish Delight
THE SEPHARDIC IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN FICTION by Sarah Aroeste From the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents Discussed in this essay: His Hundred Years, A Tale by Shalach Manot. Albion-Andalus Books,...
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 ArticleBridging the Israeli-Palestinian Divide
NOA BAUM CAPTURES HER STAGE PERFORMANCE IN A BOOK by Helen Engelhardt Discussed in this essay: A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace, a theater performance and a book by Noa Baum....
View ArticleInclusion and the Soul of a Synagogue
by Rabbi Jeremy Kridel From the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents “WE DON’T REALLY think we can do that.” So ends my wife’s phone conversation with staff at a Jewish camp and after-school program....
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...
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Tales of the Hasidic Jazz Masters
Text and Visuals by Mikhail Horowitz from the Winter 2017-18 issue of Jewish Currents, our art calendar I WHEN LESTER YOUNG had finally become Lester Altacocker, he rued having worn a porkpie hat for...
View Article“The Russians Are Coming” and Other Poems
by Sparrow From our 2018 art calendar, dedicated to the theme of music THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING The Russians are coming; the Russians are coming. They stole our election, and they are drumming. The...
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