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The Spring/Summer 2008 edition is out now and includes:

Inside Art by Michail Grobman, Zoya Cherkassky, Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Sasha Okun, Nekoda Singer, and Ilya Bogdanovsky

Poetry by Michael Gendelev, Genya Turovskaya, Roman Baembaev, Sivan Beskin, Eugene Ostashevsky, Inna Lisnianskaya, Ilya Bernstein, Gali-Dana Singer, and Matvei Yankelevich

Fiction by Alex Epstein, Maria Galina, David Stromberg, Val Vinokur, Alona Kimhi, and Boris Zaidman

David Bezmozgis discusses writing and community

Igor Guberman considers Jews as a dream

Gail Hareven learns the reality of literature

Alexander Genis tries to listen to his blood

Irina Mashinski observes small-town ice cream

Pavel Lembersky reconsiders old photographs

Marina Shron takes a plane ride back

and much more.

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The Fall / Winter 2007 edition is out now and includes:

Basya Schechter, The Music of Sacred and Profane

Bara Sapir, Cracks in the Vessel: When Music is Art

Dan Friedman, Coffee with Little Satan

Sacha Baron Cohen, What’s on my playlist

Steven Beeber, Oy to Oi: Is Hardcore Punk Suddenly Kosher?

Joe Gallo, On Sound

Robbie Gringras, Trouble in Eurovisionland

Linda Zisquit, Between

Basmat Hazan Arnoff, The Piyyut is Jewish Soul Music

Sascha Gottschalk, My Life as a Jewish Hare Krishna Skinhead

Shirley Kaufman, Late Love Poem

Yoram Kaniuk, Killers

Jay Michaelson, The Redemptive Music of Sadness
Art by

Laurie Anderson

Philip Glass

Pauline Oliveros

Meredith Monk

Julie Blattberg

and more
Music by

Kobi Oz and Teapacks

Pharaoh’s Daughter

Roberto Rodriguez

Y-Love

and more

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The Spring/Summer 2007 edition includes:

Ilya Kaminsky First Ending of the Fairytale

Jay Michaelson Prayer and Nonduality

Ellen Bloomenstein He’s Got Big Muscles

Bara Sapir How an Artist Prays

Forum on the Independent Minyan Movement

Shifra Bronznick D.I.Y. Judaism: A Roundtable on Independent Minyanim

Riv-Ellen Prell Indy Minyanim and 1970s Prayer Groups: Sociological Perspectives

Ethan Tucker What Independent Minyanim Teach us about the Next Generation of Jewish Communities

Ilana Kurshan Stacking the Plastic Chairs: An Independent Minyan in Jerusalem

Rami Shapiro Why Pray?

Dan Friedman Prayer for Carthage

Stephen Hazan Arnoff In Memoriam: Bob Dylan’s Modern Times

Jake Marmer In the Beginning

S. Yizhar Sting

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Zeek: Fall/Winter 2006

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Contents:
Corie Feiner, Tongue
Marusya Bociurkiw, Radishes and Salt
Leah Koenig, Goldbergers and Cheeseburgers: Particularism and the Culinary Jew
Samuel Menashe, Salt and Pepper
Matthew Vogel, Half-Sour: Food and Healing in Berlin
Michael Ableman, Eli Zabar’s Magical Rooftop of Greens
Ruth Knafo Setton, The Orange Came First
Jay Michaelson, Kashrut and Nonduality
Elisha Porat, Carobs
Meghan Adler, Pomegranate
Darra Goldstein, Cooking up Community with the Jews of Turkmenistan
Yoseph Leib, The Tree of Life
Jeremy Mullem, With a Strong Hand and an Outstreched Arm
Rachel Barenblat, Sufganiyot

Zeek: Spring/Summer 2006

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Contents:
Ruth Knafo Setton, When God Yelled at Me
Gordon Haber, Peyos ex Machina
Hillel Schwartz, Walking with Cristy in D.C.
Mordecai Drache, Queerness and the New Jewish Cultures
Phil S. Stein, How I Ended Up at the Jerusalem Same-Sex Attraction Group
Peter Schwartz, The Return of Isaac
Rachel Zucker, Alluvial
Jay Michaelson, A Tranparent God: Tensions Between Buddhism and Judaism
Robin Goldfin, Close the Door and Sit Close to Me
Alex Mankowitz, White Meat
David Shasha, The Levantine Option: What the Ashkenazim Have Hidden from Us
Ellen Bloomenstein, Image in the Rain
Joshua Cohen, Trees

Zeek: Fall/Winter 2005

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Contents:
David Ehrlich, Everythingís Fine
Jill Hammer, The Place of Ashes
Kitra Cahana, The Last Days of Gaza
Rebecca Mostov, Dear God
Leah Koenig, The So-Called Jewish Cultural Revolution
Hayyim Obadyah, Masoretic Orgasm
Jay Michaelson, The Use of Mysticism
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Kíga Vna: Just as They...
Dan Friedman, The Fundamentalist in the Mirror
Anat Liwtin, No Place Like...
Nicole Tayler, What She Loved Most
Marissa Pareles, A Floating Red
Rabbi Jacob Staub, Winter Light Promises

Zeek: Spring/Summer 2005
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Contents:
Richard Chess, Monotheist's Lament
Jennifer Blowdryer & Alvin Orloff, Hipster Antisemitism
Jill Hammer, The Two Mothers
Aaron Hamburger, Whatever it Takes
Rachel Barenblat, Asher Yatzar
Jay Michaelson, Religion, Spirituality, Contemplation, Love
Abraham Mezrich, Jacob Said to the Angel
Abi Cohen, James Lee Byars & the Number Ten
Michael Blumenthal, Not Pure Black and White
Hal Sirowitz, Here's Looking at You
Samantha Stiers, Mengele & the Giant Hairball
Dan Friedman, Straight Eye for the Consumer Guy
Hila Ratzabi, A Demonstration in Words

Zeek: Fall/Winter 2004
Contents:
Hal Sirowitz, Being on Good Terms
Jill Hammer, An Altar of Earth: Jews, Goddesses and the Zohar
Hila Ratzabi, Playing Eve
Rowena Silver, Hyatt Regency Dead Sea Resort
Jay Michaelson, Two Essays on Jesus Christ
Avi Levy, Then
Jeff Leavell, Becoming Jewish-ish
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Invocation Before the Sacred Union
Chanel Dubofsky, No Matter What, I Wish You Luck
Joshua Axelrad, Sex and the Golem
Abraham Mezrich, Pomegranates: A Parable
Michael Shurkin, Is France Antisemitic?
Ira Stone, The Stable
Nigel Savage, Very Short Story

Zeek: Spring/Summer 2004
Contents: Temima Fruchter, Erev - Abraham Joshua Heschel (Jonathan Boyarin trans.), God Likes New Things - Siona Benjamin - Khamoshi - Prof. James Russell, Harvard Death Fugue - Raphael Cohen, re:vision - Abraham Mezrich, Island-Swimming - Michael Shurkin, Davening with Joe - Hal Sirowitz - Why there are no more miracles - Josh Ring - Josh Almost Gets Cancer - Jay Michaelson - I Hear America Bling-Blinging - Bara Sapir - Torah Cover - Sarah Lefton, A Song of Ascents - Chanel Dubofsky, Wisconsin - Margaret Mackenzie Schwartz, The Wrong Half - Joel Shurkin, Ten Commandments - Rabbi Niles Goldstein, Surrender - Dan Friedman, The Mall-Balloon Man Moment of the Spirit

Zeek: Fall/Winter 2003
Contents: Marissa Pareles Shtupping in the Shadow of the Bomb - David Goldstein Stones of Jerusalem - Jay Michaelson What the World Is - Sara Seinberg yom kippur - Dave Hyde Europeís Red-Green Alliance - Matthue Roth Trembling Before You - Douglas Rushkoff The Sacred and the Profane - Hal Sirowitz Not Mentioned - Dan Friedman Genuine Authentic Gangsta Flava - Temima Fruchter Primal Scream Judaism - David Stromberg Saddies - Michael Shurkin Is Zionism Colonialism? - Samuel Hayim Brody With a Bible and a Gun - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Carrying Light into Dark Times - Abraham Mezrich Angel-Man
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