Moment Magazine-June 2006
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June 2006

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Features

AIPAC & Israel

NATHAN GUTTMAN

The Rosen-Weissman scandal sheds light on Israel’s complex relationship with the powerful lobby that is its staunchest American supporter. Like any close friendship, this one has its rocky moments.

Marked For Life

SHAUN RAVIV

A fascinating tour through the history of tattoos—with stops in Auschwitz, New York and Tel Aviv, and visits with young Jews who are purposefully and permanently marking themselves with Jewish symbols.

Letter From Israel

Living with Closed Eyes

SUZANNE F. SINGER & JESSICA STEINBERG

Under the cover of night, the women are smuggled across the Sinai Desert into Israel, where they are forced to work as prostitutes. We meet a former sex slave and find out what Israel is doing to stop trafficking.

A Jewish Life

Ehud Olmert: The Right Man at the Right Time?

IAN BLACK

Now that the smooth-talking former hard-liner is prime minister, can he finalize Israel’s borders and lead the country to lasting peace?

Essay

The Art of Jewish Pushiness

ABE OPINCAR

Moses was the first of many pushy Jews. It’s become a tribal trait for good reason.

Gallery

 

AMY COWEN

An award-winning photographer travels to Gondar, Ethiopia, where an adolescent who practices modern Orthodox Judaism, leads his peers in an early morning service.

Departments

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

Once upon a time there was a way to reverse circumcision

Hershel Shanks

A window into the thinking of the Muslim world, good and bad

Suzanne F. Singer

Israel’s treatment of refugees from Darfur is disgraceful

Leonard Fein

The authors of the Harvard paper are misguided, not anti-Semitic

Marshall Breger

Palestinan Christians face the fact of a Hamas victory

Daoud Kuttab

The Jewish Word

Shiksa: A word that has gotten over its roots

Jewish Enterprise

The smoldering passion of Mikey Weinstein

Ask the Rabbis

How should we view unmarried pregnant women?

Poem

Books

Morton Halperin on The Bomb in the Basement;Vikram Seth’s Two Lives

Author Interview

Herbert Krosney on The Lost Gospel of Judas

A Moment With...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Spice Box

 
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