May/June 2009
Features
Scott S. Greenberger
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has ascended rapidly through the ranks of the Democratic Party while raising three young children and battling breast cancer.
Jeremy Gillick
David Ben-Gurion fought to change Israel’s dysfunctional electoral system and failed. Today, a new generation of reformers picks up where he left off.
Adam Rovner
Early Zionists considered this African island as a prospective Jewish homeland. The Nazis wanted to turn it into a large Jewish ghetto. One man searches for Jewish history in a land of fables.
Diana Cohen Altman
Moment launches a guide to Jewish museums, archives and galleries in recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, with an introduction by Brandeis historian Jonathan Sarna.
Nadine Epstein
The children’s book author talks about the Holocaust, writing and how to take ideas out to lunch.
Kerry Abram
The philosopher and bioethicist discusses how tithing can help fight global poverty.
Columns
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
Eric Alterman
David Frum
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Clifford D. May
Departments
Jewish Word
"Secular" is not a synonym for "atheist"
Lord Balfour: The accidental Zionist
Selling off art to pay the bills
Talk of the Table
The sweet tale of Jews and chocolate • The first Jewish American cookbook
How should Jews treat their Arab neighbors?
Books
Theodore Bikel reviews a new translation of Sholom Aleichem's Wandering Stars • All Other Nights by Dana Horn • The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell and an update on the German response
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