Moment Magazine-April 2007
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Features

Was Einstein a Jewish Saint?

Mandy Katz

Devoted to God (but not prayer), Zionism (but not statehood) and his people (but not narrow nationalism), Albert Einstein invented his own way to be a Jew.
Read the companion piece—Einstein and His God here…

Is One of the Lost Tribes the Taliban?

Ilene R. Prusher

Afghanistan’s Pashtun people make up the ranks of the Taliban. As it turns out, some of them believe they were once Jews.

A Jewish Life
Linda Gradstein: NPR’s Voice from Israel

Glenn Frankel

The woman behind the dispassionate voice juggles balanced reporting with raising four children in an Orthodox home.

Essay

On the “Road” with the KKK

Anonymous

Care to sample hate (and hate merchandise) on the web? Hold tight to your couch and join our “undercover” Internet correspondent on a trek through KKK, American Nazi and other anti-Semitic hideouts on the Web.

What Can be Done to Prevent Genocide?

Students from all over the continent—of many faiths and backgrounds—take a stab at answering. Read the winning essays, then check out those of the finalists at momentmag.com.

Backstage Pass: A Chat with an Israeli Phenomenon

Rachel Ament

Mark Malseed: Author of the Google Story

Nonna Gorilovskaya

Departments

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

Letters

Opinion

Why Jews are afraid to say “no” to the Iraq War.

Nathan Guttman

You, yes YOU, may qualify as an “anti-Semite.”

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Let Iran’s voters give Ahmadinejad the boot.

Meir Javedanfar

More on the Bible vs. Koran controversy.

Dennis Prager

Film Watch

American director Ari Sandel presents West Bank Story.

The Jewish Word

Look out for shmendrick!

Jewish Enterprise

Can Jews and Arabs in a Rutgers dorm learn to live in peace?

Ask the Rabbis

Why are Jews the “chosen” people?

Poem

Gallery

“Rainbow Shabbat,” an uncharacteristically sentimental “dinner party” for Judy Chicago

Books

The Jewish Writings of Hannah Arendt and David Pryce-Jones’s Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews.

A Moment With...

Michael Oren, author of Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present.

Spice Box

 

 

 
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