

Rather than furiously kicking him out of her room like she did before, she assumes he came straight to her because he was afraid of the thunderstorm and consoles him in her room, even apologizing for being so mean earlier.

He had opinions about everything and because he’d started and ran the program for years, he knew his opinions were right. At the end of his life (I’d been running the program for a while) I asked him to call me just three times a day. I don’t know much about what happened with Morris and Larry - only that Larry worked with and learned from Morris for about four years, then disappeared from JC for twenty before returning to take it over . Leaving something that was your whole life for a long time (or for just five years) is never easy to do. Larry and I used to joke that he was Morris and I was Moe, and although the analogy wasn’t perfect, there was a certain truth to the thought. He’d worked for Morris Schappes, Currents founder, and I had worked for Moe Foner, another larger than life one man band. Now he was ready to work fulltime on his art. An artist, a writer, a musician, and editor, there’s nothing he can’t do.
#Jacob haiki full#
He’d worked hard and all the time, and every issue of Currents was alive, original, and full of his insight. He’d done absolutely everything in incredible and unusual ways for years. Larry himself is an impressive one man band.

Jonah Boyarin brought Jacob to one of those meetings, and that’s how we all met. We met a few times at the National Writers Union, and the conversations were always lively, but we didn’t know what direction the magazine would take.
#Jacob haiki how to#
Together we’d initiated a series of evening meetings with young people to talk about how to bring Currents into Now. Larry had decided he wanted to hire someone young to replace him, to bring in a new generation, and I accompanied Larry as a longtime friend, as a coworker, and as someone to talk to about the various candidates. Larry and I interviewed Jacob together the first time, in an Italian restaurant in midtown. He did what he’d intended: made Jewish Currents new. He’s been there a quick five years and the magazine is a different one now. Jacob is leaving Jewish Currents, after having made a Big Success of his tenure– hiring many talented young writers, bringing the publication into the Modern Age.
