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Current Issue
Features
If Not “Peace Now,” What?
Critics of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process describe their visions of Israel’s near future. Judea Pearl, Meyrav Wurmser, Benny Morris, Morton Klein, Shlomo Riskin, Daniel Gordis, Daniel Pipes Shoshana Bryen and Steven Emerson
share their hopes and fears.
Eileen lavine
Gangsters, Guns, Genes & Gamblers
Moment tracks down descendants of Jewish mobsters—among them Meyer Lansky’s step-granddaughter and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter’s great-nephew—and discovers a world of Jewish sleuths digging into their families’ pasts.
Susan fishman orlins
Jewish Life
Anita Diamant: A Mikveh of Her Own
The queen of Jewish lifecycle books and author of the bestselling The Red Tent is the founder of Mayyim Hayyim, the world’s only freestanding, pluralistic mikveh.
nadine epstein
inthemoment blog
Freedom of information and the story of Exodus happily mingle at the Google seder.
nadine epstein
Gallery
Earth and sky unite in Neil Folberg’s photograph of the Temple Mount.
Columns
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
Opinions
Israel’s Orthodox rabbinate unconverts the converted.
Gershom Gorenberg
Religious Zionism has alienated mainstream Israelis.
Marshall Breger
Why isn’t it politically correct to question Israeli policy?
Eric Alterman
Departments
A Spiritual Moment
A rabbi prays for a sign—and finds it wrapped in Charmin.
History Box
How Wyatt Earp came to rest in a Jewish cemetery.
Film Watch
Swimming with Jellyfish.
The Jewish Word
What’s a shtick?
Campaign ‘08
Jewish fundraisers rake in big bucks for their candidates.
And, participate in the Moment Presidential Poll here.
Ask the Rabbis
Who cares what women wear (or don’t)?
Book Essay
Ewa Kuryluk on Bruno Schulz and Franz Kafka.
Book Club
Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book
Book Reviews
Ghettostadt, Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City; The Lazarus Project; History Lesson: A Race Odyssey