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January/February 2009
Features
Jews and Blacks in America, 1909-2009
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.
An Orthodox Feminist Revolutionary
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.
jessica ravitz
Does Syria Matter?
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.
jeremy gillick
New Life for Lost Jewish Music
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.
Eileen lavine
Columns
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
A secular spirit lives on at the Eldridge Street Synagogue
Eric Alterman
What is a Jew in power to do?
David Frum
Right-wing extremists threaten Israel's future
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Why Bibi Netanyahu is Israel's candidate of hope
Naomi Ragen
Could gasoline fuel change in Iran?
Clifford D. May
Departments
The Jewish Word
How's your hisbodedus?
Film Watch
Love & Dance
Ask the Rabbis
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
Book Club
The Tales of Rebbe Nachman
