October/November 2007

Features

Is the Nation's Favorite Pastime Pitching Jesus?

Karin Tanabe

For 35 years an evangelical group has run baseball's official chapel program. Does this brand of Christianity belong in baseball's locker rooms?

Do You Know This Family?

Mark I. Pinsky

Peer at The Simpsons through an offbeat lens and you may find that Protestant Middle America is more Jewish than you think. Not to mention, Homer, Marge and the kids...

Shadid Speaks

Eileen Lavine

The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid discusses what it's like to be an American reporter of Arab descent covering the Middle East as well as his bleak forecast for Iraq and Lebanon.

The Playwright's Politics

Ted Merwin and David Zax

Tony Kushner, the writer of Angels in America and Munich, finds it tough to be gay and Jewish. And despite rumors to the contrary, he does not want to destory Israel.

Essay

After Night in Sighet

Karin Tanabe

A visitor to Elie Wiesel's hometown dwells in its uneasy past and oblivious present.

Columns

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

Opinions

Censure by media watching CAMERA is a badge of honor among some Israeli journalists.

Gerhsom Gorenberg

A malaise of disaffection is spreading throughout Israel.

Naomi Ragen

Separation of church and State Department is a folly we cannot afford.

Marshall Breger

Departments

A Spiritual Moment

A rabbi and his friend speak of dying and hope for awakenings to come.

History Box

When Yiddish wouldn't do, Ludvic Zamenhof invented Esperanto.

Film Watch

Fanny Brice, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner and three generation of funny girls.

The Jewish Word

The word diaspora has scattered to the four corners of the earth.

Jewish Enterprise

A new video game gives new meaning to "playing politics" in the Middle East.

Ask the Rabbis

What does Judaism say about psychiatry?

Poem

Gallery

Books

Leonard Levin on Abraham Heschel • Nathan Glazer on Jews and Power • Anne Roiphe on Shalom Auslander

A Moment With...

Author Diane Ackerman

Spice Box