August 2006
Features
Nadine Epstein and Walter Podrazik
How a nice Jewish boy from Liverpool discovered the Beatles and shaped them into an international sensation.
David Frum, Peter Beinart, Matthew Yglesias, Abraham H. Foxman, Edith Everett and others offer views so different you might think they live in parallel universes.
Moment-Karma Foundation Short FictionWinner
ISAAC LEUNG
“She told me lots of things. Like there are lots of Jewish taxi drivers in New York, which is in America. I told Tamara I had never been to America, only to California...”
ABE OPINCAR
South of the border, an unconventional Jewish convert leads an even more unconventional congregation
A Jewish Life
SUSAN FISHMAN ORLINS
A Thanksgiving dinner with friends led the renowned linguist to analyze Jewish conversation.
Essay
Encounter with my Mother—Eight Years After Her Death
Menachem Rosensaft
A Holocaust survivor’s son sees his mother in a new light—on an old newsreel.
Departments
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
“Lost Judaisms” may be the wave of the future
Hershel Shanks
Choosing the words to bequeath to our children
Suzanne F. Singer
An ancient woman we should get to know
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Are Jewish slaughtering laws inhumane?
Dennis Prager
Would Maimonides support intelligent design?
David Klinghoffer
The Jewish Word
Hasbara: Everyone’s doing it
Jewish Enterprise
A Jewish museum in the house where a pope was born
How should a Jew seek forgiveness?
Books
Absurdistan, a cockeyed look at the cockamamie post-Soviet world
Book Essay
Edward Merwin defines the indefinable Jewish play
A Moment With...
Fiction writer Avner Mandelman and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Spice Box
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