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A Priest Bears Witness; The Origins of Jewish Creativity; Jewish Life in Iran; 2010 short fiction winner: Blue; Jewish Geography; Fall Film Picks; Shmarya Rosenberg,Why The Ultra-Orthodox No Longer Vote Democrat; Naomi Ragen , The Ecstasy—And Agony—Of Gilad Shalit’s Return; Mark I. Pinsky, Evangelical Christians Are Not Boogeymen; The soulful flavors of Roman-Jewish food.
Revered and Reviled: Bernard Lewis; Can there be Judaism Without Belief in God?; Is This The Golden Age of Jewish Baseball?; Jews and the Gold Rush; Caribbean Guide; Jewish Apps; Apikores; Gershom Gorenberg: Finally, a rebirth of Jewish values in Israel; Naomi Schaefer Riley: Tenure does not encourage academic freedom; Marshal Breger: Why the Palestinian U.N. vote doesn’t matter; Comforts of Stuffed Cabbage.
Is There Life After Death?; Invisible Roma; Meet the Birdman; 118 Days in Iran’s Evin Prison; 2011 Music Guide; Naomi Ragen: Can the Arab Spring Change Israel’s Climate?; Clifford D. May: Closing the “Terror Gap”; Aluf Benn: Wake Me Up When September Ends; Nathan Guttman: Five Myths About the “Jewish Vote”; Break a Leg; Summer Movie Round-up; Culinary Lessons from a Libyan Prison
Live from NY, It's Anthony Weiner; What Does it Mean to be Jewish?; What's Israel's Next Move? Memory & The Jews; Jewish American Heritage Guide; Spotlight on Children's Literature; Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The IDF's Silent Whistle-blowers; Marshall Breger: The True Costs on the Fisdcal Crunch; Gershom Gorenberg: Where Goes the Money?; Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Sarkozy Confronts French Anti-Semitism; Schvartzer;
X-Men; Halvah
10 Commandments Version 2.0; Israel's Arab Citizens Series: The Arab Glass Ceiling; Dani Dayan: The Man Who Stopped the Settler Freeze; Karma Short Fiction Winner: The Goose Girl; Noah Pollak: How Liberals Politicized Israel; Eric Alterman: I ? Israel; Mashall Breger: Imams at the Death Camps; Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The Witch Hunt of Naomi Chazan; Jewfro; Top Ten Television Shows; French Food
10 Commandments Version 2.0; Israel's Arab Citizens Series: The Arab Glass Ceiling; Dani Dayan: The Man Who Stopped the Settler Freeze; Karma Short Fiction Winner: The Goose Girl; Noah Pollak: How Liberals Politicized Israel; Eric Alterman: I ? Israel; Mashall Breger: Imams at the Death Camps; Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The Witch Hunt of Naomi Chazan; Jewfro; Top Ten Television Shows; French Food.
A Woman Orthodox Rabbi?; Mel Brooks: King of the Politically Incorrect; Letter from the Philippines; Karma Short Fiction Winner: Jerusalem Stone; Clifford D. May: Kurdistan: The Other Israel; Yoav Sivan: Israelis Don't Ask. They Tell; Naomi Ragen: Settlers: Obstacles to War, Not Peace; Eric Alterman: The New Religion for America's Jew: Israel; The Wandering Jew; Latkes Vs. Donuts; Jewish Fockers.
The Curious Case of Walter Mosley; Seperate but Not Equal; What's America's Next Move in the Middle East? An Interview with Charles Krauthmmer; Hiking the Holy Land; Eric Alterman; Political Sparks Fly in the Hamptons; Marshall Breger; A Eulogy for a Rabbi of Peace; Letty Cottin Pogrebin: When "Good" Arabs" Go Bad; David Horowitz: The Left is Killing Academic Freedom; Poem: Jane Shore.
Moment Symposium 2010; The Provocative Baron Cohen Clan; Ed Asner is Nothing But Drama; Letter From Myanmar; The Israel-Turkey Alliance; Dave Brubeck's Jewish Music; Matt Rees and His Palestinian Detective; Saturday Night's Jews; Noah Pollak: The New War Against Israel; Cartoon Caption Contest; and much more.
Moment Symposium 2010; Jewish American Heritage Guide; A Map to the (Literary) Stars; The Life and Times of Skokie; Eric Alterman: Is Israel Committing Suicide?; Marshall Breger: A Republican Dares to Speak of Peace; Kenneth Turan's 10 Favorite Jewish Films; Poem: Calvin Trillin on Moment's 35th Anniversary
Jeremy Ben-Ami: The Man Behind J Street; Night Shift: Tel Aviv; A New Generation of Haggadah Art; An Interview with the Late Howard Zinn; Clifford May: There's no hope for a separate peace for Israel; Film review of Academy Award nominated Israeli film Ajami; Joan Nathan's eggplant journey; and much more.
The true story of Jews and Freemasons; World boxing champ Yuri Foreman; Revival of Jewish culture in Poland; James Kirchick: “Neoconservative” is not a Jewish word; Speaking Volumes: Dara Horn reveals her first (literary) love; Talk of the Table: Which came first, the chicken or the soup?; Moment Cartoon Caption Contest; and much more.
The new Jewish convert; David Miliband; The mysterious tale of a Ukrainian university’s anti-Zionist Crusade; Short Fiction Winner; Film Watch: Dreaming of a White Christmas movie; Talk of the Table: The love affair between Jews and Chinese food; Ask the Rabbis: What is a self-hating Jew?; and more.
The first in Moment’s series in Israel’s Arab citizens: From Arab to “Palestinian Israeli;” Great Jewish Films; Pilgrimage to Uman; Top Ten: non-Jews often misidentified as Jews; Ask the Rabbis: When does life begin?; Jewish Film Festival Guide; and much more.
From ghetto to glamour: How American Jews toppled Paris couture and redesigned the fashion industry; A Moment with New Yorker Cartoonmeister Bob Mankoff; Post-Racial Rabbis; Israel: Through a Writer’s Lens; Benny Morris on the growing rift between Israel and the U.S. over Iran; and much more.
May/June 2009
Can Israel’s electoral system be fixed?; Madagascar: An almost Jewish homeland; Jewish American Heritage Guide; Eric Alterman on the “Pro-Israel” smear campaign; Jews and chocolate; Ask the Rabbis: How should Jews treat their Arab neighbors?; and much more.
March/April 2009
Bernie Madoff: Mystery Man; Can Eric Cantor save the GOP?; Jewish Mexico City; Eric Alterman on how Israeli films boldly go where few politicians dare; Deborah Tannen talks with Theodore Bikel; What the U.S. can learn from Israel about electronic records; and much more.
January/February 2009
Jews and Blacks in America, 1909-2009; Tova Hartman: An orthodox feminist revolutionary; Does Syria matter?; Charles Krauthammer’s mission of bringing new life to lost Jewish music; Sherwin B. Nuland on The Jewish Body; Ask the Rabbis: Should the US have a chief rabbi?; David Frum: What is a Jew in power to do?; and much more.
November/December 2008
Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka Jon Stewart); Elie Wiesel and other Nobel laureates on their favorite Jewish books; Fiction Contest Winners; It’s true: Shrek is Jewish; Ask the Rabbis: Does politics belong on the bima?; Eric Alterman on how Israel failed its Arabs; and much more.
September/October 2008
Does God have a seat on the Supreme Court?; Ariel Sabar’s return to Jewish Kurdistan; Kirk Douglas talks with his rabbi, David Wolpe; Election 2008 – why Jews should vote for Obama/McCain; Nathan Guttman on why Israel is not the No. 1 issue for Jewish voters; Cheers to everyone’s favorite toast: “l’chaim!”; and much more.
July /August 2008
Critics of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on their visions of Israel’s near future; Jewish gangsters; Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) talks about founding the world’s only freestanding, pluralistic mikveh; Why is Wyatt Earp in a Jewish cemetery?; Gershom Gorenberg on how Israel’s Orthodox Rabbinate unconverts the converted; and much more.
May/June 2008
The conversion of Anthony Lake, Obama’s top foreign policy lieutenant; The re-branding of Israel; Amos Oz discusses Israel’s first 60 years; The fall of the House of Herzl; Can modern Hebrew survive globalization?; Ask the Rabbis: How does Israel help Jews be Jews?; Global Warming Essay Contest Winners; and much more.
March/April 2008
How do we divide the Holiest Holy City?; How Jews got their last names; A conversation with children’s writer Judy Blume; Marshall Breger: Tikkun olam does not equal “social action”; The Jewish doctor Hitler saved – from Hitler; A tale of Hasidic humility; and much more.
January/February 2008
Searching for normal life in Hebron; The wacky, wonderful brain of Oliver Sacks; Cyprus – wedding capital of the Mediterranean; The way women give; Is the word JAP offensive?; Letty Cottin Pogrebin: A “bottom-up” peace may be the only solution; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism say about gossip?; A Moment with Alan Dershowitz on Thomas Jefferson; A portrait of the Jews through Chinese eyes; and much more.
October/November 2007
Is the nation’s favorite pastime pitching Jesus?; Tony Kushner (Angels in America) finds it tough to be gay and Jewish; A visit to Elie Wiesel’s hometown; The Simpsons are more Jewish than you think; the Jewish origins of Esperanto; Naomi Ragen: the malaise of disaffection is spreading throughout Israel; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism say about psychiatry?; A video game about the Israeli/Palestinian peace process; and much more.
August/September 2007
Thomas Friedman discusses why going green will make the world safer for Jews—and everyone else; A “lost tribe” in northeast India tries to come home; Kinky Friedman’s (almost) review of The Yiddish Policeman’s Union reviewed; Joshua Bell’s “Jewish” violin; A reflection on anti-Semitic passports in the Soviet Union; Joshua Muravchik asks why political progress is so slow in Arab nations; and much more.
June/July 2007
Journalist Ron Rosenbaum talks with Norman Mailer; The birth of Israel’s environmentalist movement; Fiction contest winner; Anti-Semites who loved Jews and the Jews who (sometimes) loved them back; Marshall Breger: Is good old multiculturalism ruining America?; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism say about being a workaholic?; and much more.
April/May 2007
Was Einstein a Jewish Saint?; Linda Gradstein: NPR’s voice from Israel; Is one of the Lost Tribes the Taliban?; On the “Road” with the KKK; Students answer: What can be done to prevent genocide?; Nathan Guttman: Why Jews are afraid to say “no” to the Iraq War; Rutgers’ experimental Middle-East Coexistence House; Ask the Rabbis: Why are Jews the “chosen” people?; and much more.
February/March 2007
The story of Google cofounder Sergey Brin; Dave Marash, Jewish anchor for Al Jazeera English, on why Al Jazeera is a good thing; A Jewish survival guide to the holiday season; The Jewish secrets of Lemony Snicket; Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s deputy prime minister; Leonard Fein: Losing our way in Baghdad; Harry Potter and the Torah; A different kind of anti-Semitism in Britain; and much more.
How Jew-friendly Persia became anti-Semitic Iran; Sandra Froman, the first Jewish president of the NRA, shoots the breeze about elk, defenseless women and gun control; Daniel Pearl’s father reflects on the price of being Jewish; Gershom Gorenberg: Donors to Israel should question where their money goes; The Jewish attraction to India; and much more.
The seven laws of Noah and the non-Jews who follow them; 19 hours and 20 minutes in Tel Aviv’s central bus station; The remaining Jews in Macedonia; David Grossman pens a eulogy for his murdered son; Israel’s young literary star Etgar Keret; Matthew Yglesias: Hezbollah and Al Queda—it’s not a love story; Ask the Rabbis: Should Jewish children trick-or-treat?; and much more.
Brian Epstein: The man behind the Beatles; The Iraq War: Is it good for the Jews?; Letter from Tijuana—courting conversos; Talking Jewish with Deborah Tannen; Absurdistan, cockeyed look at the cockamamie post-Soviet world; David Klinghoffer: Would Maimonides support intelligent design? Ask the Rabbis: Should a Jew seek forgiveness?; and much more.
The rocky relationship between AIPAC and Israel; A history of Jewish tattoos from Auschwitz to New York to Tel Aviv; Ehud Olmert: The right man at the right time?; The art of Jewish pushiness; Leonard Fein: Israel’s treatment of refugees from Darfur is disgraceful; Israel’s prostitution problem; and much more.
Edward R. Murrow—Saving Jews on and off the air; Black Zionists; Is Ladino making a comeback?; Joan Nathan on what makes Jewish food “Jewish”; New Orlean’s Jews discover it is harder to rebuild a Temple than build it; Ask the Rabbis: What does Judaism have to say about organ donation?; and much more.
Was Nixon really an anti-Semite?; In chambers with Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Are University chairs the latest frontline in the Arab-Israeli conflict?; Leonard Fein: the unilateral predilection of Ariel Sharon; An Israeli reporter risks his life to save his beloved Jeep; and much more.
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