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September/October 2011

September/October2010

Features

Revered and Reviled: Bernard Lewis

Daphna Berman

A decade after the September 11th attacks, Moment looks back on the career of the 95-year-old Middle East scholar whose ideas provided the framework for the war in Iraq. Long an outcast in contemporary Middle East Studies departments, he and his followers defend his legacy.

Can there be Judaism without belief in God?

Interviews by Moment Staff

An array of thinkers answer this taboo question. Among them: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Senator Joe Lieberman, sociologist Robert Putnam, legal theorist Noah Feldman, poet Marcia Falk, mathematician Robert Aumann and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.

Is This the Golden Age of Jewish Baseball?

David Elfin

A new generation of high-caliber Jewish major league players—including four All-Stars­—takes the field. Plus exclusive profiles of Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Danny Valencia and Kevin Youkilis.

Jews and the Gold Rush

Jeremy Gillick

The tale of the free-thinking Jewish adventurers who flocked to San Francisco to make their fortune and helped shape the character of the City by the Bay.

+ Adolph Sutro & Mark Twain

 

Guide to the Jewish Caribbean - coming soon!

 

Columns

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

Opinions

Finally, a rebirth of Jewish Values in Israel

Gershom Gorenberg

A Report on the State of Jewish Feminism

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Tenure does not Encourage Academic Freedom

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Why the Palestinian U.N. vote doesn't matter

Marshall Breger

Departments

Jewish Word

You say apikores I say heretic!

Moment Top Ten

Rev up your smart phone with Jewish apps

Ask the Rabbis

For what should our community atone on Yom Kippur?

Poem: Marge Piercy

A Bob Mankoff Cartoon

Talk of the Table

The Comforts of Stuffed Cabbage

+ Recipe: Stuffed Cabbage

Books

Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
reviewed by Virginia Heffernan

The Emperor of Lies

reviewed by Hilma Wolitzer

The Memory of All That
reviewed by Sidney Offit

Speaking Volumes

Rachel Kadish discovers rabbits are not Zionists

Moment Crossword

Cartoon Caption Contest

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