August/September, 2007

Features

Why Going Green Will Make the World Safer for Jews—and Everyone Else

Robert S. Greenberger talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman about the relationship between energy-efficient technology and peace in the Middle East.

Lost in India

Rachel Safier

Northeast India’s Bnei Menashe practice Orthodox Judaism and believe they are descended from a lost Israelite Tribe. But controversy is preventing them from fulfilling their dream of moving to Israel.

Jewish Life

Bell Man

Mandy Katz

Joshua Bell—a “farmboy” from the American heartland—drives audiences wild with his emotive playing on the world’s most famous “Jewish” violin.

Essay

The Rise and Fall of Paragraph #5

Nonna Gorilovskaya

In the Soviet Union, passports were stamped with far more than your destination. A young woman born in the Ukraine confronts the anti-Semitic legacy of Paragraph #5.

Book Review

A Texas Jewboy (Almost) Braves Chabon’s Alaskan Wild

Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman couldn’t quite make it through Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union but has opinions on it nonetheless.

Departments

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

American Jews should pay attention to Arab Israelis.

Nathan Guttman

Why is political progress so slow in Arab nations?

Joshua Muravchik

It’s not easy to reconcile the “I” with the Jewish “we.”

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Ten reasons this Jew has stayed faithful to Judaism.

Dennis Prager

Film Watch

Toots: Bigger Than Life recalls Toots Shor, the Jewish saloonkeeper.

The Jewish Word

We’re goy crazy over this one.

Jewish Enterprise

Peter Schweitzer serves up a hearty helping of Forschpeis! and much more.

Ask the Rabbis

How should we as Jews look at immigration?

Poem

Gallery

Moment travels beyond the lens with renowned Israeli photographer Micha Bar-Am.

Books

Hilma Wolitzer reviews Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases and Richard Dunham weighs in on Naftali Bendavid’s book about Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats