Selections from the March – April 2013 issue

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Election 2013: No Surprises for Women
Hannah Safran and Dalia Sachs

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Seventy Years Later: Reflections on Memory
Martha Roth, Mark Golden and Ester
Reiter

Chava Rosenfarb: Yiddish-Canadian Chronicler of the Holocaust
Gene Homel

Being a Jewish Dissident is No Longer a Lonely Occupation
Paul Weinberg

Honouring Jewish Humanists: Judith Malina
Bennett Muraskin

Selections from the January – February 2013 issue

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Doing Palestine Solidarity Work "As Jews": Universalism as the Basis for an Ethical Particularism
Sheryl Nestel

The Water Cooler
Carl Rosenberg

The Closing of the Jewish Mind: Thoughts on the YIVO Conference, "Jews and the Left"
Marty Roth

What We Talk About When We Talk About War, by Noah Richler
Book review by Christopher Levenson

Selections from the November / December 2012 issue

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United Church of Canada Embraces Justice for Palestinians
Diana Ralph

A Burning Love of Zion
Lucia Pizarro

Baruch Kimmerling: The Breaker of Silence
David Cohen

A Turbulent Decade
Abe Arnold, Editor and Publisher,
Vancouver’s Jewish Western Bulletin, 1949-1960

Jewish Humanists Remembered: Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888 -1957) and the Territorialist Movement
Bennett Muraskin

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander
Book Review by Daphna Levit

Selections from the September / October 2012 issue

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What Planet Does Haifa University Live On?
Bernard Katz

CIJA Defends the Settlements
Stephen Scheinberg

Yiddish Resurgence in Winnipeg
Lawrie Cherniak

Another Look at A Serious Man
Film review by Al Stein

Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012
Marty Roth

They Shoot Doctors, Don't They? A Memoir, by Dr. Jack Fainman with Roland Penner
Book Review by Roz Usiskin

Selections from the July / August 2012 issue

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Quebecers join Global Protests
Guest Editorial by Scottmontreal

Aba Bayefsky: Life and Work
Edra Bayefsky

Cory Doctorow, Radical Presentist
Kim Ellen Levis

A Serious Man
Movie Review by Marty Roth

Painting My LIfe: A Memoir of Love, Art and Transformation, by Phyllis Serota
Book review by Sima Elizabeth Shefrin

A Fiery Soul: The Life and Theatrical Times of John Hirsch, by Fraidie Martz and Andrew Wilson
Book review by Stephen Aberle

Far from Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community, by Charles London
Book review by Bennett Muraskin

Selections from the May / June 2012 issue

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Editorially Speaking: First Year of Conservative Majority: Need for Resistance Even Greater

Germany: Aggrieved About Grass
Victor Grossman

Adrienne Cecile Rich: 1929–2012
Martha Roth

All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalism, by Daniel Katz
Book review by Ester Reiter

Selections from the March / April 2012 issue

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Editorially Speaking: The 100th Anniversary of “Bread and Roses”? Well, sort of…
Joanne Naiman

Women’s Poverty = Children’s Poverty
Adrienne Montani

Myths and Facts about Canada's Gun Control Law
Wendy Cukier

Writing the Revolution, by Michele Landsberg
Book review by Martha Roth

Selections from the January / February 2012 issue

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E-mailing Intolerance
Stephen Scheinberg

Getting Out Online
Gary Shilling

Reflections on Venezuela Tour
Nikos Kapetaneas

Interview with Reena Katz
Dalia Levy

Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
Book review by Sheila Delany

Selections from the November / December 2011 issue

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Alan Shrugged — Savings Vanished
Akiva Orr

Memorial Evening to Abe Arnold
Harriet Zaidman

Winnipeg Hosts UJPO and Outlook
Harriet Zaidman

First Person Singular
Judy Haiven

Interview with Daniel Thau-Eleff
Dalia Levy

Judaism for Everyone … Without Dogma by Bernardo Sorj
Book Review by Bennett Muraskin

Selections from the September / October 2011 issue

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Editoriallly Speaking (Jack Layton; J-14 Protests in Israel)

Ben (and I) in Postwar Europe and on the High Seas
Victor Grossman

Troubador for Troubled Times: An Interview with Singer/Songwriter David Rovics
Ken Klonsky

Jewish Humanists Remembered: Saul Goodman
Bennett Muraskin

Poor Matza: Selected Stories, by Avrom Reisen
Book Review by Al Stein

To the End of the Land, by David Grossman
Book Review by Martha and Marty Roth

Selections from the July / August 2011 issue

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The Four Nos of Bibi
Stephen Scheinberg

The Only Yiddish Library in Western Canada
Faith Jones

The Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir: A Brief History
Victor Neuman

The World’s Only Yiddish Stained Glass Windows
Donna Becker

Mordecai: The Life and Times, by Charles Foran
Book review by Marty Roth

Selections from the May / June 2011 issue

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Threats t o Civil Liberties and Free Speech
Micheal Vonn

The Power of the Heart: Compassionate Listening in Israel and Palestine
Bonnie Sher Klein

The Water Cooler
Carl Rosenberg

Jewish Humanists Remembered: Bernard Lazare
Bennett Muraskin

Selections from the March / April 2011 issue

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The Uses of Remembrance
Martha Roth

The Women's Peace Movement in Israel: Forty Years on the Move
Hannah Safran

Jewish Humanists Remembered: Chava Rosenfarb
Bennett Muraskin

Snapshots from Vilna: Memories of the Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish, July-August 2010
Rachel Mines

Selections from the January / February 2011 issue

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Jews, Israel, Nationalism and the Way Forward
Bennett Muraskin

All Quiet on the Western Front—Once Not So Quiet
Victor Grossman

A Selection of Yiddish Poetry by Melech Ravitch
Selections and Introductory Comments by Al Stein

If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, by Michael Marqusee
Book review by Joanne Naiman