January/February 2009
Features
In celebration of the nation’s first African-American president, Moment documents the past 100 years of black-Jewish relations, from Jews who helped bring about the civil rights movement to those who helped Barack Obama win.
Jessica Ravitz
Tova Hartman's search for a feminist home in Orthodox Judaism led her to co-found Shira Hadasha, a Jerusalem shul where women read from the Torah and lead services-in front of men-stirring controversy in the Orthodox world.
Jeremy Gillick
The Obama Administration is expected to support talks between Syria and Israel as part of its efforts to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Tony Badran, Tom Dine, Martin Indyk, Joshua Landis, Moshe Ma’oz, Michael Oren, David Schenker and Andrew Tabler on whether a Syrian-Israeli deal is in the cards.
Eileen Lavine
Robyn and Charles Krauthammer rescue lost Jewish art music—a blend of Western classical and Jewish folk melodies—from oblivion and bring it to the stage.
Columns
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
Eric Alterman
David Frum
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Naomi Ragen
Clifford D. May
Departments
How's your hisbodedus?
Love & Dance
Should the U.S. have a chief rabbi?
Books
Sherwin B. Nuland reviews Melvin Konner's The Jewish Body • Ari L. Goldman critiques Elie Wiesel's A Mad Desire to Dance • Ethan Bronner discusses Martin Indyk's Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East
The Tales of Rebbe Nachman
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