Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Author at Moment Magazine

Susannah Heschel on the Legacy of Her Father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Civil Rights Movement

By Nadine Epstein Moment: Tell me about this photo. It’s so famous, and we see it all the time—but what’s really happening there? Susannah Heschel: This is...

2014 January-February, Jewish Word, Jewish World

Jewish Word // Philistine

How Philistine Became a Dirty Word by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil It’s a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses nothing but his wits and a slingshot...

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Week in Review: High-Tech Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel Boycott Bill Axed and much more!

February 6, 2014
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
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The New York State Assembly has withdrawn a bill that would cut off funding to colleges and universities that initiate boycotts of Israel. Although a...

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Test Your Knowledge of Jewish Olympians!

January 16, 2014
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
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The Sochi Olympics are just weeks away. Get ready with our quiz on the Olympics’ rich Jewish past.

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Answers to Jewish Olympians Quiz

January 15, 2014
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
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1. Sarah Hughes 2. Aly Raisman 3. Yael Arad, for judo 4. Dara Torres 5. Oksana Baiul 6. Kerri Strug 7. Gal Fridman, for windsurfing 8. Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller 9. Seven 10....

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Q&A: Historian Melissa R. Klapper on American Jewish Women’s Activism

January 10, 2014
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil While the names Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem have become synonymous with second-wave feminism, the role of Jewish women in earlier feminist...

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This Week in Jewish Politics, Culture and Religion: Netanyahu and Pope Francis, Plus Google’s Pursuit of Immortality

December 5, 2013
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
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Benjamin Netanyahu met with Pope Francis at the Vatican this week, presenting the pontiff with a Spanish translation of The Origins of the Inquisition, a...

2013 November-December

The Life and times of a Jewish New Testament Scholar // Rewind to the summer of 1963: Future New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine was watching the broadcast of Pope John XXIII’s funeral on her parents’ TV set.

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Interview | Eric Garcetti

Los Angeles’s new mayor has modeled his life on Jewish principles and values.

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Reza Aslan’s Jesus

September 19, 2013
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
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Reza Aslan is an Iranian American scholar of religions, whose internationally acclaimed books include No god But God and Beyond Fundamentalism. His most recent book,...

Culture, Latest, U.S. Politics

Most Americans Support Immigration Reform With a Path to Citizenship, Survey Shows

The majority of Americans support immigration reform with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to the findings of a new survey released by...

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Will Catholic-Jewish Relations Improve Under Pope Francis?

“We have been given arguably the most positive result one could want in terms of Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious and intergroup...

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