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The true story of Jews and Freemasons; World boxing champ Yuri Foreman; Revival of Jewish culture in Poland; James Kirchick: “Neoconservative” is not a Jewish word; Speaking Volumes: Dara Horn reveals her first (literary) love; Talk of the Table: Which came first, the chicken or the soup?; Moment Cartoon Caption Contest; and much more.
The new Jewish convert; David Miliband; The mysterious tale of a Ukrainian university’s anti-Zionist Crusade; Short Fiction Winner; Film Watch: Dreaming of a White Christmas movie; Talk of the Table: The love affair between Jews and Chinese food; Ask the Rabbis: What is a self-hating Jew?; and more.
The first in Moment’s series in Israel’s Arab citizens: From Arab to “Palestinian Israeli;” Great Jewish Films; Pilgrimage to Uman; Top Ten: non-Jews often misidentified as Jews; Ask the Rabbis: When does life begin?; Jewish Film Festival Guide; and much more.
From ghetto to glamour: How American Jews toppled Paris couture and redesigned the fashion industry; A Moment with New Yorker Cartoonmeister Bob Mankoff; Post-Racial Rabbis; Israel: Through a Writer’s Lens; Benny Morris on the growing rift between Israel and the U.S. over Iran; and much more.
May/June 2009
Can Israel’s electoral system be fixed?; Madagascar: An almost Jewish homeland; Jewish American Heritage Guide; Eric Alterman on the “Pro-Israel” smear campaign; Jews and chocolate; Ask the Rabbis: How should Jews treat their Arab neighbors?; and much more.
March/April 2009
Bernie Madoff: Mystery Man; Can Eric Cantor save the GOP?; Jewish Mexico City; Eric Alterman on how Israeli films boldly go where few politicians dare; Deborah Tannen talks with Theodore Bikel; What the U.S. can learn from Israel about electronic records; and much more.
January/February 2009
Jews and Blacks in America, 1909-2009; Tova Hartman: An orthodox feminist revolutionary; Does Syria matter?; Charles Krauthammer’s mission of bringing new life to lost Jewish music; Sherwin B. Nuland on The Jewish Body; Ask the Rabbis: Should the US have a chief rabbi?; David Frum: What is a Jew in power to do?; and much more.
November/December 2008
Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka Jon Stewart); Elie Wiesel and other Nobel laureates on their favorite Jewish books; Fiction Contest Winners; It’s true: Shrek is Jewish; Ask the Rabbis: Does politics belong on the bima?; Eric Alterman on how Israel failed its Arabs; and much more.
September/October 2008
Does God have a seat on the Supreme Court?; Ariel Sabar’s return to Jewish Kurdistan; Kirk Douglas his rabbi, David Wolpe; Election 2008 – why Jews should vote for Obama/McCain; Nathan Guttman on why Israel is not the No. 1 issue for Jewish voters; Cheers to everyone’s favorite toast: “l’chaim!”; and much more.
July /August 2008
Critics of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on their visions of Israel’s near future; Jewish gangsters; Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) talks about founding the world’s only freestanding, pluralistic mikveh; Why is Wyatt Earp in a Jewish cemetery?; Gershom Gorenberg on how Israel’s Orthodox Rabbinate unconverts the converted; and much more.
May/June 2008
The conversion of Anthony Lake, Obama’s top foreign policy lieutenant; The re-branding of Israel; Amos Oz discusses Israel’s first 60 years; The fall of the House of Herzl; Can modern Hebrew survive globalization?; Ask the Rabbis: How does Israel help Jews be Jews?; Global Warming Essay Contest Winners; and much more.
March/April 2008
How do we divide the Holiest Holy City?; How Jews got their last names; A conversation with children’s writer Judy Blume; Marshall Breger: Tikkun olam does not equal “social action”; The Jewish doctor Hitler saved – from Hitler; A tale of Hasidic humility; and much more.
January/February 2008
Searching for normal life in Hebron; The wacky, wonderful brain of Oliver Sacks; Cyprus – wedding capital of the Mediterranean; The way women give; Is the word JAP offensive?; Letty Cottin Pogrebin: A “bottom-up” peace may be the only solution; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism say about gossip?; A Moment with Alan Dershowitz on Thomas Jefferson; A portrait of the Jews through Chinese eyes; and much more.
October/November 2007
Is the nation’s favorite pastime pitching Jesus?; Tony Kushner (Angels in America) finds it tough to be gay and Jewish; A visit to Elie Wiesel’s hometown; The Simpsons are more Jewish than you think; the Jewish origins of Esperanto; Naomi Ragen: the malaise of disaffection is spreading throughout Israel; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism say about psychiatry?; A video game about the Israeli/Palestinian peace process; and much more.
August/September 2007
Thomas Friedman discusses why going green will make the world safer for Jews—and everyone else; A “lost tribe” in northeast India tries to come home; Kinky Friedman’s (almost) review of The Yiddish Policeman’s Union reviewed; Joshua Bell’s “Jewish” violin; A reflection on anti-Semitic passports in the Soviet Union; Joshua Muravchik asks why political progress is so slow in Arab nations; and much more.
June/July 2007
Journalist Ron Rosenbaum talks with Norman Mailer; The birth of Israel’s environmentalist movement; Fiction contest winner; Anti-Semites who loved Jews and the Jews who (sometimes) loved them back; Marshall Breger: Is good old multiculturalism ruining America?; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism say about being a workaholic?; and much more.
April/May 2007
Was Einstein a Jewish Saint?; Linda Gradstein: NPR’s voice from Israel; Is one of the Lost Tribes the Taliban?; On the “Road” with the KKK; Students answer: What can be done to prevent genocide?; Nathan Guttman: Why Jews are afraid to say “no” to the Iraq War; Rutgers’ experimental Middle-East Coexistence House; Ask the Rabbis: Why are Jews the “chosen” people?; and much more.
February/March 2007
The story of Google cofounder Sergey Brin; Dave Marash, Jewish anchor for Al Jazeera English, on why Al Jazeera is a good thing; A Jewish survival guide to the holiday season; The Jewish secrets of Lemony Snicket; Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s deputy prime minister; Leonard Fein: Losing our way in Baghdad; Harry Potter and the Torah; A different kind of anti-Semitism in Britain; and much more.
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