January/February 2010

Features
The True Story of Jews and Freemasons
Moment takes you inside the secret world of Freemasons, probing the similarities between Judaism 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.
sarah breger

World Boxing Champ Yuri Foreman
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.
boris weintraub

Scenes from a Krakow Cafe
Kazimierz, the city’s old Jewish quarter, fell into ruin after the Holocaust. Today, its hip cafe scene tells the story of the revival of Jewish culture in Poland.
Story by ruth ellen gruber
Photographs by soliman lawrence

The Other Side of the Wall
A Yeshiva University professor prays at the Western Wall, first as a man and then as a woman.
joy ladin

2008 Short Fiction Winner
The Kiss
Confused by her father’s death, a girl finds comfort in summer camp.
amy graubart katz

Columns
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein

Opinions
The ADL defames J Street
Eric Alterman

“Neoconservative” is not a Jewish word
james kirchick

Gay activists threaten the First Amendment
marshall breger

Richard Goldstone, victim of Jewish McCarthyism
letty cottin pogrebin

Departments
Letters to the Editor
Click here to subscribe to Moment (print or digital edition) so that you can read all of the magazine's first-rate content.

A Lighter Moment
Young people wanted, no experience necessary

Jewish Enterprise
Meet the Sha-bot robot

Ask the Rabbis
What is the role of a rabbi in modern America?

Talk of the Table
Which came first: the chicken or the soup?

Poem

Speaking Volumes
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
Click here to subscribe to Moment (print or digital edition) so that you can read all of the magazine's first-rate content.