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November/
December 2009
Features
David Miliband
A child of Holocaust survivors, the British foreign secretary is a New Labour policy wonk who could someday be prime minister. But does he have the “icicle in the heart” that it takes to lead his party?
michael goldfarb
The New Jewish Convert
Why a Mormon, a Muslim, a Baptist, the great-granddaughter of a high-ranking Nazi officer and four others chose to become Jews. One of them is Yitzhak Jordan, aka Y-Love, a black Orthodox Jew and hip-hop artist who creates rhymes from the Talmud.
joan alpert
The Mysterious Tale of a Ukrainian University’s Anti-Zionist Crusade
An anti-Semitic campaign at a Kiev institution—featuring former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, shadowy foreign agents and outlandish claims—ends almost as suddenly as it began.
nadine epstein
2008 Short Fiction Winner
Levi
A look at an unsettling world through the eyes of a gifted boy.
racelle rosett
Columns
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
A Spiritual Moment
Opinions
Smart Jews vote like Puerto Ricans
Eric Alterman
Mourning William Safire and Irving Kristol
David Frum
Avigdor Lieberman defends Israel’s honor
naomi ragen
Can we find political messages in midrash?
gershom gorenberg
Departments
Jewish Word
A mensch for all seasons.
Film Watch
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas movie
Ask the Rabbis
What is a "self-hating Jew"?
Talk of the Table
The love affair between Jews and Chinese food
Poem
Speaking Volumes
Writer Jay Michaelson on the book that changed his life
Books
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp, The Defector, Intriguing Books of 2009
