January/February 2010
Features
Sarah Breger
Moment takes you inside the secret world of Freemasons, probing the similarities between Judiasm and Freemasonry. Find out what Jewish Freemasons really think of The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's latest best seller, starring the Zohar, the classic book of Kabbalah, and discover what "secrets" they can and can't share.
Boris Weintraub
In between bouts and mixing it up at his Brooklyn gym, the world junior middleweight champion is studying to be an Orthodox rabbi. The Belarussian-born, Israeli-reared 29-year-old discusses his boxing—and spiritual—journey.
Story by Ruth Ellen Gruber
Photographs by Soliman Lawrence
Kazimierz, the city's old Jewish quarter, fell into ruin after the Holocaust. Today, its hip cafe scene tells the story of the revivial of Jewish culture in Poland.
Joy Ladin
A Yeshiva University professor prays at the Western Wall, first as a man and then as a woman.
Amy Graubart Katz
Confused by her father's death, a girl finds comfort in summer camp.
Columns
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
Eric Alterman
James Kirchick
Marshall Breger
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Departments
Letters to the Editor
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Young people wanted, no experience necessary
Meet the Sha-bot robot
What is the role of a rabbi in modern America?
Which came first: the chicken or the soup?
Novelist Dara Horn reveals her first (literary) love
Books
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein • Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller • Yehuda Halevi by Hillel Halkin
Spice Box
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