Writings
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Jews as an Indigenous People
LET’S PRACTICE SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES by Mark Daalder AMONG ALL the indigenous peoples of the world, the Jewish people have a unique tale. Suffering displacement from their ancestral land…
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The Remarkable Humanism of “Menashe”
by Alessio Franko Discussed in this essay: Menashe, a film by Joshua Z. Weinstein WITHIN DAYS of moving to Borough Park, home to one of the largest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in…
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Channel Esther: BOBST, a Serial Novel, Part XI
by Esther Cohen To read the earlier installments of BOBST, search at right under “Bobst.” Shmuel Feigenbaum wrote to Rivka from South Africa. Both from Bobst, in Lithuania, they met…
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David Bernstein’s JCPA Sides With A Monied Minority Against the Rest of Us
by “Ellie Kauder” THIS WEEK, journalist Josh Nathan-Kazis published in the Forward emails that showed Jewish Council on Public Affairs (JCPA) President David Bernstein urged fellow communal leaders not to attack…
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Some Religious Roots of Jewish Humor
by Bennett Muraskin No matter how bad things get, you’ve got to go on living, even if it kills you. —Sholem Aleichem THE STEREOTYPE of the funny Jew is relatively new.…
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Canada’s Father of Reproductive Rights
DR. HENRY MORGENTALER’S SACRIFICE by Ruth Miller From the Summer 2017 issue of Jewish Currents THE STORY of Dr. Henry Morgentaler’s life (1923-2013) and his effect on Canadian society and legal…
