... on his back. For slow was fast enough for him. But on the fourth day out, in scree and stone, the customs officer barred his way. “Any valuables to declare?” “None.” And the boy who led the ox spoke up: “He taught me.” So that was then declared. But the man, his eyes lighting up, went...

... and expansion of law enforcement into the daily lives of young men is like an invisible cage, too. Reactions to these constraints can send ripples of aggression through a community; the aggression of the dramatic arrest that the boys witnessed eventually found its way to me. Yet, the hand that local policing...

... ministerial leaders, and opened and closed its meetings with prayers. Often it sang a hymn or two. Du Bois, blasting NAACP leaders during his stormy departure in 1934, noted that the staunchly antisegregationist NAACP would have no place to exist or meet without its 20,000 segregated black churches. The issue...

... by Graeme Wend-Walker LOUDS OF DUST SWIRL FROM THE YOUNG BOY’S SHOES AS HE RACES through lanes and over the arching bridge, scam pering...

...Reginald Dwayne Betts Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 History is a black and white scarf tied on the head of a boy who lost his brother on inauguration night, call it a kaffiyeh, because it is & the black knots at the end a fist, a little weight to keep the head bent towards...

...David Sterritt Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 Adam Resurrected , Bleiberg Entertainment , 2008 Defiance , Paramount Vantage , 2008 The Reader , The Weinstein Company , 2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , Miramax Films , 2008...

...Alan Williamson The boy with the beautiful face of central Asia like an almond stood on its tip (the nose and cheek-curves almonds within an almond) stands guarding the almost featureless images of our larger nature, Pheidias by way of Alexander. . . Not his religion, even, but his...

... after his death. Ably edited and annotated by Dr. Rafael Medoff, it is the author’s account of the Bergson Boys (also called the Bergson Group) led by Hillel Kook — better known by his alias, Peter Bergson. Bergson and his comrades, all veterans of the Irgun in their twenties and thirties, first came...

... the varied strands and violence on innocent people, particu­ of Arabic culture into a unified whole. By HOLOCAUST larly children, in wartime.” In w artim e- tirelessly bringing this music to the larger THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAM AS, does this mean...

... to a less expensive education at the nursing school four blocks from home. The loss of her younger brother to cancer made her a fellow sufferer as well as a healer: The year after my brother died I tried to stay in the sphere of the living, but at the cancer hospital, young boys kept lining up in the hall...

... in 2003 that 40% of our teenage girls wear thongs to school, mostly with the underwear band showing above their jeans. This is a disgrace and immediately conveys both that going to school is akin to going to a peep show and that the flirtatious interaction of girls and boys is more...

... that children are always ready for art and music and that those who say otherwise “do not know what ready means and are using this as an excuse.” I recall the time a thirteen-year-old boy and his caseworker were visiting a state child welfare office on Chicago’s South Side, where we had a piano. This boy...

... part of their expressiveness. That once, they veer and teeter and incorporate I have never heard of the Pig Boy kind of loose, variable intensity is visible in without melting into the chaos of the con­ I have never heard of the Beastie the flashcard-like couplets of “Forget­...

... circumcision is expressed as the divine mandate, which seals and perpetuates the covenant, G-d’s contractual and eternal relationship, with the Jewish people. Second, it is commanded to occur on the eighth day of the baby boy’s life. Other than these unique identifiers, circumcision in Judaism shares much...