Arts and Culture
Food, Glorious Food!
My mother had taken the deer roast out of the freezer; my brother Ed was on his way over with some squirrels for my mother to fry up….
Life and Action
Home and Work, Community and Advocacy
“Do not choose between family and social change work. Rather, it is a loving community that enables us to sustain our commitment to a more just world.”
Arts and Culture
Review, "Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works"
Aaron Rosen reviews David Kaufmann’s new book, Telling Stories: Philip Guston’s Later Works (University of California, 2010).
Life and Action
Why Did the Jew Cross the Road?
Organizing Jews to do what is right, not what is easy.
Life and Action
On Orthodoxy, and Editing
A hello from Zeek’s new Online Editor, Rivka Fogel, discussing her experience as an Orthodox Jewish editor. Some musings on the discussions between Orthodoxy and non-Orthodoxy, and within Orthodoxy itself.
Life and Action
Social Justice Movements: The Good They Do (Through the Stories They Tell)
Rabbi Sid Schwarz responds to Jay Michaelson’s article, which puts forth the theory that social justice problems are projected and not fixable.
Life and Action
Story is the Peril of Service
Jay Michaelson reexamines the roots of problems that social justice movements work to fix.
Arts and Culture
Israel's Eastward Beating Heart (Review)
Philip Hollander reviews Amy Horowitz’s Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic (Wayne State University, 2010).
Life and Action
Don't Meet Them Where They Are
Zeek editor Jo Ellen Green Kaiser argues that the recent trend of catering to the wants of potential activists—particularly by focusing justice work so heavily on the food movement—is a misguided waste of time and effort.
Arts and Culture
"Gurion's Escape": an excerpt from "The Instructions"
Zeek has an excerpt of Adam Levin’s novel, The Instructions, which tells the story of young Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee, scholar at Aptakisic alternative junior high.
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