News and Politics
The Nexus of Spirituality and Politics, or, Mitt Romney vs. Exodus 22
Are we helping one another too much, or too little? Should government basically leave us alone, or do each of us owe the weaker among us a duty, with government being the all-too-imperfect means of fulfilling it? My claim is that the answers to these political questions are not political at all – but ethical, and, for wont of a better word, spiritual.
Arts and Culture
Winners of the 2012 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards
Zeek is proud to have again cosponsored the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards, and to be publishing the winners of this year’s contest: “Variation (Let’s Pretend) by Lauren Camp, and Excerpt from “Fantasy for the Shal Women” by Yosefa Raz.
Arts and Culture
Azriel Cohen: In Memoriam
All of us here at Zeek are deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Azriel Cohen, whose artwork has graced these pages many times. Here is some of Azriel’s diverse body of work, taken from different projects over the years.
God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality | Long Island
The Center in Garden City, 4 pm 400 Garden City Plaza, Ste. 110, Garden City, New York Register here
Arts and Culture
Selichot in Krakow—Migration Sofa Melody
The only one of my mother’s melodies to remain is the sing-song of the shamash from the Remuh Synagogue in Krakow as he passed at night through the streets of the ancient ghetto, knocking on the window shutters and waking the Jews for selichot.
Arts and Culture
The Sephardic Poem
In Toledo we sat at a small round table
beside a rose garden and the synagogue,
our children grouchy from the long walk and the heat…
Life and Action
Jewish Youth Activism: A Model for Leadership Development?
The Jewish community needs innovative responses and approaches to foster engagement in our future. In order to create leaders who create Jewish experiences rather than merely consume them, we need to engage youth around Jewish issues that have meaning and purpose.
Events
Four Jewish Guys: Poetry & Performance | New York
Poetry reading and performance with Philip Terman, Yehoshua November, Jay Michaelson, and Jake Marmer.
Arts and Culture
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
This is the last work of the late, great Harvey Pekar, who passed away two years ago at the age of 70: an autobiographical, narrative account of Pekar’s own relationship to the Land and State of Israel (which he never visited). It’s a political work, but primarily a personal story of lessons half-learned, allegiances formed and broken.
Four Jewish Guys: New Poetry
New poetry by four Jewish guys, Philip Terman, Jake Marmer, Jay Michaelson, and Yehoshua November. Each has a different take on the neurotic conundra of Judaism and masculinity.
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