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News and Politics
Hey You, Are You Confronting Jewish Racism? Ferguson, Race & Public Space
As the civil unrest in Ferguson re-launches much-needed conversations about race — and racism — US Jews must see this as a call to action on injustice broadly as well as a time to kickstart difficult conversations within the Jewish community. And not just around the kind of explicit, hate-filled racism we heard from Donald Sterling this spring, but pressingly, around the more subtle undercurrent that enables more explicit racism but often goes, unnoticed, unremarked upon, and thus, unchecked.
News and Politics
In Memory of Leonard Fein: Social Justice Again....
Editor’s Note: Our hearts are heavy with this morning’s passing of Leonard “Leibl” Fein. In his honor, we republish this 2008 ZEEK essay, “Social Justice Again…” “The question that the heirs to a tradition of rachmanut, compassion, must in every generation answer,” he writes, “is whether they, in turn, will be the compassionate parents of compassionate children.” He was. And, speaking for my own generation, we shall try. –-Erica Brody
Social Justice Again… By Leonard Fein
SOCIAL JUSTICE, AGAIN? No. Social justice still.
The current talk of the American Jewish community’s abandonment of its traditional passion for social justice is exactly that–talk. Read More
News and Politics
Morning Jew: Heather Gold, Katie Halper & Special Guest Josh Gondelman
The Morning Jew duo is joined by Josh Gondelman (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver & @SeinfeldToday), taking a brave stand against apologia.
The verdict? This week’s news is bad for the Jews: Israel bombs another UN school, infant herpes, Woody Allen, genocide talk & more.
Arts and Culture
A Conversation: Why Fiction Matters in an Unjust World
A conversation between Sarah Seltzer and Chanel Dubofsky launching ZEEK’s Summer Fiction series.
Arts and Culture
Fiction: Sholem Wrestles an Angel
To a man with hearing loss, the world can present some strange playlists. For instance, the intolerable screech of the BART car on its tracks can approach the sublime. Wind across the brushed aluminum surface of the car can sound like a choir singing a note and its minor third simultaneously, moving up and down a ghostly atonal scale as the car speeds up and slows down. The symphony is released into the atmosphere when the train moves on elevated track, and then strangulated within tunnels where it is forced to ever higher pitches.
Faith and Practice
Towards a New Tzniut
My third day of rabbinical school, a male colleague ran his finger slowly up my arm to my shoulder and said, in a voice that was somewhere between flirtatious and downright creepy, “You’ll be wanting to cover up, then.”
Arts and Culture
Fiction: If You Looked Better, I'd Take You
At school I passed out Tootsie Roll Pops. It was something a normal kid from a normal family would do. I worked hard at that, because at Holy Family nobody knew my dad wasn’t living with us or that he was Jewish.
Arts and Culture
Fiction: Buying the House Twice
On Sunday mornings there was whitefish and lox and halvah so sweet it hurt your teeth. There were loaves of challah and cheese and slices of purple onion. The dining room seated our family, my aunt Ruth and her family, my aunt Bella, my grandmother, and Ada Rappaport and her boyfriend. Everyone talked at once. Annie took the sliced head of the whitefish and removed it from the scaly body. She pressed her lips against skull and sucked the eyeballs whole.
News and Politics
Morning Jew: Heather Gold, Katie Halper & Special Guest Michael Wex
This week: Circumcision debate, Auschwitz selfies & chain stores selling concentration camp décor.
Get behind the headlines with comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper, joined by special guest Born to Kvetch author Michael Wex. Nu, is it good for the Jews?
Arts and Culture
Fiction: In The End
In the beginning of the End, God saw that what He had created needed uncreating.
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