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America, Bleeding My Life in Books, 2008 an Editorial Esther Cohen Analyzing Lithuanian Anti-Semitism Jewish Secularism in France Geoff Vasil Nadia Malinovich Ab A PROGRESSIVE, SECULAR BIMONTHLY $5.00 • NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 2008 THE MAGAZINE OF THE WORKMEN’S CIRCLE/ARBETER RING America, Bleeding My Life in Books, 2008 An Editorial Esther Cohen Analyzing Lithuanian Anti-Semitism Jewish Secularism in France Geoff Vasil Nadia Malinovich Ab. Cahan Meets Friedrich Engels Wrestling with Righteousness Yankl Stillman Diana Scott should — perhaps must — go right ahead with science — explore the macro and micro universes — there is LETTERS all but an imperative to explore the ut- ter limits of the cosmos — chemically, Names will be withheld from publication on biologically, physically, in every way. request. Jewish Currents reserves the right But when it’s time to technologically to edit letters to restrict their length. implement the discoveries of science, that’s where discussion and decision must take place. But discussion and decision by whom exactly? Science and Boundaries the same testing as any other falsifi- I don’t think anything I wrote above I was surprised to find Bernard able claim. I don’t care what a religious is any different than what was said in Bulkin favorably quoting Stephen Jay person thinks or does in the privacy of the interview — it just gives me food Gould’s (in)famous claim that science his or her own bathroom, but in public, for thought. Thanks. and religion are perforce separate and scientific scrutiny is essential. The RUSS BUSH non-overlapping magisteria (“Religion magisteria overlap constantly. Bethel, Connecticut and Skepticism,” September-October). BARRY GOLDSTEIN Professor Gould’s intellect was appar- Newtonville, Massachusetts ently on vacation the day he wrote that. • Jews and the Left As long as religion makes assertions I really enjoyed the interview with I agree with the main thrust of about the real world (prayer is effica- Bernard Bulkin. The main point to me Bennett Muraskin’s interesting article cious, creationism is to be taught in is his initial statement: “I am going to (“Jews and the Left: A Natural Alli- schools, only religious people can be make a distinction between science ance?” in September-October), but I moral, etc., ad nauseam) it is subject to and technology.” I think that scientists was disturbed by some inaccuracies. First of all, August Bebel was not a “German Jewish socialist,” as Mu- Vol. 62, No. 6 (651) raskin wrote. His father was a Protes- November-December, 2008 tant Prussian and Bebel was baptized www.jewishcurrents.org and raised as a Protestant. On his EDITOR: Lawrence Bush mother’s side, the ancestry is less clear EDITORIAL BOARD: Adrienne Cooper, Joseph Dimow, Henry Foner, (if only because the family name was Esther Leysorek Goodman, Rokhl Kafrissen, Milton Kant, Lyber Katz, Simon), but she too was a Protestant, Judith Rosenbaum, Yankl Stillman, Tamar Zinn, Barnett Zumoff as were her closest relatives. Bebel was CONTRIBUTING EDITOR (from Israel): Amy Klein an opponent of anti-Semitism, but that EDITORIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: Isak Arbus, Henrietta Backer, Paul Basch, didn’t make him Jewish. Anne-Marie Brumm, Alvin Dorfman, Shaurain Farber, Gordon Fellman, Continued on page 42 Eric A. Gordon, Abbott Gorin, David A. Hacker, Estelle Holt, Nicholas Jahr, Carol Jochnowitz, Robert Kaplan, Michael Katz, Robert Kestenbaum, Arieh Lebowitz, Miriam Leberstein, Ira Mintz, Bennett Muraskin, Marie Parham, Peter Pepper, CORRECTION Sam Pepper, Sheldon Ranz, Eugene Resnick, Sid Resnick, Martin Schwartz, • An editing error garbled the final Rhea Seagull, Ralph Seliger, Paul G. Shane, Joel Shatzky, Ruth Singer, Harold Sosnow paragraph of Nicholas Jahr’s report, WEBSITE EDITOR: Rokhl Kafrissen WEBSITE RESOURCES: Ira Karlick “J Street Paves Its Own Road,” in MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE: Stan Distenfeld, Nina Gordon, Ira Karlick, Elaine Katz, our September-October issue. The Bernard Kransdorf, Ruth Ost, Fred Rosenthal paragraph should have read: “The challenge before J Street, as a fun- Cover: “Peace March,” oil painting by Max Ginsburg, from his exhibit, “Visions of Reality,” damentally moderate voice in a con- at Gallery 1199 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center of 1199/SEIU’s Bread and Roses servative time, is to pry open a space Cultural Project. Ginsburg, a life-long New Yorker, has taught at at the School of Visual Arts, in which the 69 percent of American the Art Students League, and the High School of Art and Design. His work has been widely displayed and is included in several museum collections. He draws inspiration from human- Jews willing to give diplomacy a istic traditions from Goya to Kollwitz and uses Old Master techniques to give his paintings chance can be heard. It remains to of contemporary scenes a timeless power. be seen whether offering candidates the political cover to speak out will JEWISH CURRENTS (ISSN #US-ISSN-0021-6399), November-December, 2008, Vol. 62, No. be enough, or if a more radical ap- 6 (651). Published bimonthly by The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, 45 E. 33rd St., New York, NY 10016. Phone: (212) 889-2523. Fax: (212) 532-7518. E-mail: [email protected]. proach is needed.” Website: www.jewishcurrents.org. Single copies $5. Subscription $30 a year in U.S.; elsewhere, $40. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y. Copyright © 2008 by JEWISH CURRENTS. EDITORIALS AND VIEWPOINTS EDITORIALS 2 Letters 3 America, Bleeding 5 A Dank! America, Bleeding ARTICLES “Mission Accomplished” 11 Analyzing Lithuanian Anti-Semitism Geoff Vasil t took the “miracle of the oil,” a one-day supply burning 16 Jewish Secularism in France for eight days, to resanctify the temple in Jerusalem after Nadia Malinovich I the Syrian Greeks ran swine through it during the ancient 20 My Life in Books, 2008 days of the Maccabees. It will take a far greater miracle than Esther Cohen that to restore the United States to sound health and international respect, once George W. Bush and “Dick” Cheney complete their COLUMNS eight-year rampage on January 20th. Nearly all of their intentions were made clear in the earliest 4 FORSHPAYZN weeks of their administration, well be- 7 FOLLOW-UP fore the terrorist attacks of September 8 THE VIEW FROM ISRAEL Ultimately, the imperial ambitions 11th, 2001. On his very first day in of- Who Counts? of Bush and Cheney were kept in fice, for example, Bush blocked federal Amy Klein check less by Congress, the aid to groups offering abortion servic- 24 MAMELOSHN Supreme Court, the press or any es overseas— and on his tenth day, he Two Poems by Avrom Reyzn announced his “faith-based initiative,” other arm of our democracy, than Translated by Barnett Zumoff which ultimately channelled billions by their own sheer incompetence 26 OUR SECULAR JEWISH HERITAGE in federal funds for poverty relief and Ab. Cahan Meets Friedrich Engels — in New Orleans after Hurricane social programs to religious organi- Yankl Stillman Katrina, in Baghdad after Opera- zations, almost exclusively Christian 36 RADICAL YIDDISH tion Iraqi Freedom, in allowing our ones. This constituted payback to the Evangelical right, which had invested Pesach Burstein’s Peace Plan country’s infrastructure to degrade Joel Schechter heavily in Bush’s election. And the while the national deficit exploded, payback has never slackened: The 38 CONCEALED/REVEALED Essays about Jerusalem and so on. Unlike dictators of old, Supreme Court and federal judiciary, Bush and Cheney didn’t get the the Justice Department, the National 46 IN MEMORIAM Institutes of Health, even the Parks Bennett Muraskin trains to run on time. Department and the Environmental REVIEWS Protection Administration, have all been seriously compromised by religious meddling, censorship, 29 Defending the Sixties and hiring biases for eight long years. Lawrence Bush on The Sixties Unplugged On his twentieth day in office, Bush sent his record-setting 32 Wrestling with Righteousness $1.6 trillion tax cut plan to Congress — a fat gift to America’s Diana Scott on Righteous Indignation very richest stratum. A few days later, on February 28th, he an- nounced his support for a bill to make it harder for people to POETRY AND ART file for bankruptcy — a slap in the face of working America. 19 As a Christmas Present I Got Myself a Menorah Within his first month, in other words, Bush set in motion the Angelo Taranta kind of oligarchic, unregulated, debt-laden capitalism that has 23 Hanuka on the Lebanese Border at Kibbutz Yiron produced the financial crisis of 2008 and the threat of economic I. Century recession, if not depression, worldwide. 37 Zeyde Alan Holder Within three months of taking office, Bush and Cheney had 48 The First Hundred Days rejected international agreements on land mines, nuclear test- Solomon Chigrinsky ing and an international criminal court. Simultaneously, they withdrew our country from the Kyoto treaty on global warming, If 48 pages are not enough for you, visit www.jewishcurrents.org. which had already been signed by one hundred and seventy- You’ll find reprints, resources, archives, the editor’s blog, the Root- NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 2008 less Cosmopolitan blog, and much more! FORSHPAYZN* MAZEL TOVS FOR GAY COUPLES eight nations. Bush and Cheney cavalierly questioned the scientific Jews representing a variety of organizations consensus about the changing climate and began agitating for oil drill- set up a khupe (wedding canopy) made from a ing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other plum items lobbied rainbow-striped tales (prayershawl) near the steps for by Big Oil and its associated industries. Here were clear signs of of San Francisco’s City Hall on June 17th, the the administration’s disdain for environmental concerns, loyalty to the first day that same-sex marriages were legally sanctioned by the state of California. Marble cake most rapacious sectors of corporate America, and utter disregard for frosted with the phrase, “Mazel Tov,” was served, international accountability — which peaked with the “preemptive war” and couples were invited to circle one another and doctrine enunciated by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and put break a glass while a klezmer band played.
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