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May/June 2009
Features
New Political Woman
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has ascended rapidly through the ranks of the Democratic Party while raising three young children and battling breast cancer.
Scott S. Greenberger
Can Israel’s Electoral System Be Fixed?
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.
jeremy gillick
Madagascar: An Almost Jewish Homeland
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.
Adam Rovner
Jewish American Heritage
Jewish American Heritage Guide
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.
Diana Cohen Altman
Interview: Jerry Spinelli
The children’s book author talks about the Holocaust, writing and how to take ideas out to lunch.
Nadine Epstein
“You Can Save the World” High School Essay Contest Winner
Interview: Peter Singer
The philosopher and bioethicist discusses how tithing can help fight global poverty.
Kerry abram
Columns
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
The “Pro-Israel” Smear Campaign
Eric Alterman
Netanyahu: The Right Leader for the Right Time
David Frum
Shaking Up Jewish Ritual
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
A World Without Jews
Clifford d. May
Departments
Jewish Word
“Secular” is not a synonym for “atheist”
History Box
Lord Balfour: The accidental Zionist
Art Watch
Selling off art to pay the bills
Ask the Rabbis
How should Jews treat their Arab neighbors?
Talk of the Table
The sweet tale of Jews and chocolate; the first Jewish American cookbook
Books
Theodore Bikel reviews a new translation of Sholom Aleichem’s Wandering Stars; Dara Horn’s All Other Nights; The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell and an update on the German response
