Jo Ellen Green Kaiser

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser is the Editor-in-chief of Zeek magazine, available at www.jewcy.com/zeek and also at www.zeek.net .She is the co-editor of Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice (www.righteousindignation.info) and the mom of Zoe.

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Seven Days for Shavuot

The giving of Torah happened at one specific time, but the receiving of Torah happens…

Poem: Sailor at Nostrand and Bedford

Sailor at Nostrand and Bedford I. If you think that what I want is to…

Why Visit Dachau?

Prien am Chiemsee, Germany-My gray-haired Hausfrau is perplexed. "Warum denn dorthin? Why in heaven’s name…

Solitary Pleasures

The woman in the black &white photograph was leaning forward, smiling, as if offering to…

A New Passing Over

Jews honour the moon every month, with a blessing (Birkat Ha levana) that can be…

Netanyahu’s Left Wing

Zeek’s monthly cartoon, brought to you courtesy Steve Greenberg

The Saramacca Project

Ever since Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, Jews have had renewed interest in the…

Climbing Rambam’s Ladder

Originally appearing in Zeek’s Fall 2008 issue, a fuller version of this essay may be…