July/August 2008

Features

If Not “Peace Now,” What?

Eileen Lavine

Critics of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process describe their visions of Israel’s near future. Judea Pearl, Meyrav Wurmser, Benny Morris, Morton Klein, Shlomo Riskin, Daniel Gordis, Daniel Pipes Shoshana Bryen and Steven Emerson
share their hopes and fears.

Gangsters, Guns, Genes & Gamblers

Susan Fishman Orlins

Moment tracks down descendants of Jewish mobsters—among them Meyer Lansky’s step-granddaughter and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter’s great-nephew—and discovers a world of Jewish sleuths digging into their families’ pasts.

Jewish Life

Anita Diamant: A Mikveh of Her Own

Nadine Epstein

The queen of Jewish lifecycle books and author of the bestselling The Red Tent is the founder of Mayyim Hayyim, the world’s only freestanding, pluralistic mikveh.

inthemoment blog

Nadine Epstein

Freedom of information and the story of Exodus happily mingle at the Google seder.

Gallery

Earth and sky unite in Neil Folberg’s photograph of the Temple Mount.

Columns

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

Opinions

Israel’s Orthodox rabbinate unconverts the converted.

Gershom Gorenberg

Religious Zionism has alienated mainstream Israelis.

Marshall Breger

Why isn’t it politically correct to question Israeli policy?

Eric Alterman

Departments

A Spiritual Moment

A rabbi prays for a sign—and finds it wrapped in Charmin.

History Box

How Wyatt Earp came to rest in a Jewish cemetery.

Film Watch

Swimming with Jellyfish.

The Jewish Word

What’s a shtick?

Campaign ‘08

Jewish fundraisers rake in big bucks for their candidates.
And, participate in the Moment Presidential Poll here.

Ask the Rabbis

Who cares what women wear (or don’t)?

Poem

Book Review

Ewa Kuryluk on Bruno Schulz and Franz Kafka.

Book Club
Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book

Book Reviews
Ghettostadt, Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City; The Lazarus Project; History Lesson: A Race Odyssey

Spice Box