By Caroline Kessler All the colleges and universities in Pittsburgh returned for class the week of January 11. As is typical on a Friday night at the Hillel-Jewish University Center, students from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and a few other schools gathered for services....
By Symi Rom-Rymer Those seeking a Holocaust movie rendered in bold strokes of black and white, where the distinction between good and evil is clear and unwavering, will not find it in “Saviors in the Night;” the opening film of this year’s New York Jewish Film...
By Sarah Breger Check out the new issue of Moment, including our cover story on Jews and Freemasons! ...
By Elayne Laken The other week, I saw Sarah Silverman perform at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles alongside a panel of other comedians, including another member of the tribe, standup comedian Marc Maron. It was a holiday special in which topics concerning God,...
By Caroline Kessler Although the barrage of international media coverage on Israel’s war on Gaza seems to have sloped off, more personal coverage has emerged. B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, started a project to give the people of Gaza...
By Symi Rom-Rymer The mock outrage and cheap scoring of political points that has ensued in the wake of a Haaretz interview with Hannah Rosenthal, the new U.S. Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism, is quite a thing to behold. Conservative American Jewish leaders made...
By Sarah Breger Grandma is fighting back. The Center for Women’s Justice, the Israeli non-profit organization dedicated to upholding a woman’s right to just treatment in the Rabbinical Courts in Israel has created a series of web clips highlighting the injustices and injuries that result from...
By Caroline Kessler Well, that’s what we’ve got at the Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem, where two eight-year-olds from differing backgrounds are recovering from wounds inflicted by distressingly similar causes. Ethan Bronner’s carefully poignant article, “A Mideast Bond, Stitched of Pain and Healing” appeared in The New...
By Sarah Breger Going to Mommy Queerest at Theater J the other night was a bit like going to Miami—the theatre was packed with old Jews and gay people. Luckily, I love both. The one-woman show starring comedian Judy Gold relates the story of her life,...
By Olga Berman Pho-like Matzo Ball Soup Ingredients 4.5 ounce Manischewitz Matzo Ball & Soup mix 3 quarts water 1 egg 2 tablespoons oil 2 tablespoons coriander seeds 4 cloves 2 star anise 2 inch piece of ginger, cut into a few pieces 2 teaspoon sugar 1-2 tablespoons chili garlic sauce 1 cup snowpeas, halved 1 cup shredded Napa...
