March/April 2009
Features
Nonna Gorilovskaya
Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, talks about former NASDAQ chairman Bernie Madoff, whose alleged $50 billion fraud has wreaked havoc in the Jewish world and beyond.
Robert S. Greenberger
Minority whip Eric Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives. Is this conservative Virginia congressman the Moses who can lead the GOP out of the wilderness to the promised land?
Ilan Stavans
A child of Mexico City’s cloistered Jewish community discovers Mexico’s long Jewish history—and his own.
Deborah Tannen
Theodore Bikel, the larger-than-life actor, singer and activist, talks about Nazis, Yiddish and Middle East peace.
Nadine Epstein
Founded by Methodists in the late 19th century, this Protestant intellectual playland has become home to a thriving Jewish community.
Jeremy Gillick
Former Middle East advisor Aaron David Miller talks about the Gaza war, new Middle East envoy George Mitchell and the recent Israeli elections.
Columns
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
Gerhsom Gorenberg
Marshall Breger
Eric Alterman
David Frum
Departments
The many meanings of Passover
German-born Jew Paul Warburg fought to establish the Fed
What the U.S. can learn from Israel about electronic medical records
Great Seder films
What Ethical Lessons Can Be Learned from the Bernie Madoff Scandal?
Talk of the Table
The sweetness of charoset • the Maxwell House Hagaddah
In this edition, our new guide to intelligent living focuses on genetic diseases.
Books
Sephardic Jews in America • Judas • Still Jewish • The Clothes on Their Backs
Book Club
The Last of the Just
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