September/October 2008

Features

Religion and the Supreme Court

Joan Alpert

What impact—if any—does a justice’s faith have on his or her jurisprudence? Legal experts Marci Hamilton, Douglas Kmiec, Abner Mikva, Jamie Raskin, Jeffrey Rosen, Jeffrey Toobin, Laurence Tribe, Eugene Volokh and Wendy Webster Williams discuss and debate.

Return to Jewish Kurdistan

Ariel Sabar

A father and son journey to the town of Zakho during the Iraq war and discover what is left of a Jewish community that dated back to the destruction of the First Temple.

A Leading Man’s Wisdom

David Wolpe

Kirk Douglas talks about faith, life, death, the immortality of the Jewish people and what it’s like to make (on-screen) love to Lana Turner on Yom Kippur.

Columns

From the Editor

Nadine Epstein

Opinions

Now it’s Jews who are spinning conspiracy theories

David Frum

Today’s Israel: cosmopolitan but not compassionate.

Eric Alterman

Why Jews should vote for Barack Obama

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Why Jews should vote for John McCain

Naomi Ragen

Israel is not the No. 1 issue for Jewish voters

Nathan Guttman

Departments

Jewish Word

Cheers to everyone’s favorite toast: “l’chaim!”

Film Watch

A perfect bar mitzvah is almost ruined in Sixty Six.

Ask the Rabbis

Does politics belong on the bima?

Gallery

Daniel Libeskind’s Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

Election 2008

McCain vs. Obama! Check out the results of the 2008 Moment Magazine Presidential Poll, then take a trip through the magazine’s election archives

Poem

Books

Breakdowns by Art Spiegelman • A Path Out of the Desert by Kenneth Pollack • Resurrecting Hebrew by Ilan Stavans • The Hebrew Republic by Bernard Avishai

Book Club

Jerusalem: 1913

Spice Box