In each issue, we publish a cartoon drawn by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. Suggested captions for this cartoon

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In our November/December issue, Clifford D. May says the Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab World: “Once

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In our November/December issue, Moment columnist Naomi Ragen describes leaving her comfort zone and accepting an aliyah for the first

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In our November/December issue, we ask our rabbis what makes someone a “real” rabbi. Here’s what Rabbi Gershon Winkler of

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In our November/December issue, Daniel Klein reviews Herman Wouk’s new book, The Lawgiver: The Lawgiver, a new novel by the

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In our November/December, Moment columnist Eetta Prince-Gibson explains the trouble with drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the Israeli army. “But will

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The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference

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Who Said What?   1 | “Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t

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INDEPENDENT It is the community more than anything else that makes someone a rabbi. If the community finds a person’s

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By Martin Berman-Gorvine Contemporary poetry on Jewish religious subjects is rare in America outside the pages of specialized Jewish publications.

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For centuries, political philosophers have thought of democracy as a Greek idea, but it turns out there are a myriad of ways to attribute democratic ideas to the Jewish people. Noah Feldman, Jodi Kantor, Ruth Wisse, Ed Koch, Shlomo Avineri and others weigh in. ...

By Martin Berman-Gorvine Janice Weizman’s The Wayward Moonmarks a refreshing departure in the Jewish historical novel, which is all too

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