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Features
Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka Jon Stewart)
Even with an anglicized name, the host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show is quintessentially Jewish. At the forefront of modern political satire, the comedian just may be "the most trusted man in America."
jeremy gillick and nonna gorilovskaya

Noble Books
Moment cofounder Elie Wiesel and Nobel laureates Eric Kandel, Avram Hershko, Martin Perl, Robert Solow, Robert Aumann, Eric Maskin, Sidney Altman and Roger Myerson reflect on their favorite Jewish books.

Fiction Contest Winners
How Beautiful Are Your Tents, O Jacob
In their late mother’s house, a group of siblings uncover the Jewish past.
Joe Kraus

Three Dreams
An Israeli woman’s Nostradamus-like powers foretell a terrifying future.
Andi Arnovitz

Yiddish Land
Rudy can no longer speak English. Sometimes the tongue is wiser than we think.
Ellen Davis Sullivan

Columns
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein

Opinions
Break out the champagne. It's Hanukkah!
David Frum

How Israel failed its Arabs—and itself
Eric Alterman

A true trial by fire on Rosh Hashanah
Gershom Gorenberg

Welcome to the wonderful land of Middle Israel
Fania Oz-Salzberger

Saudi King Abdullah, his conference and the Jews
Marshall breger

Departments
The Jewish Word
It’s true: Shrek is Jewish

Film Watch
Inheritance: Does evil pass from parent to child?

Ask the Rabbis
What is your favorite Jewish book?

History Box
Great Jewish quarterback Benny Friedman

Jewish Enterprise
Asra Nomani and 20 students investigate Daniel Pearl’s murder

Poem

Books
Maimonides: The Life and Works of One of Civilization's Greatest MindsThe BagelHell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War MachineMessiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theater Survived Adversity Through SatireThe Journey

Book Club
Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories.

Spice Box