Arts & Culture
Book Review | Country of Ash
Vivian Gornick reviews "Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945," by Edward Reicher...
Notes on Akbar Ahmed’s The Thistle and the Drone
1. Akbar Ahmed's The Thistle and the Drone is his reading of the American War against Terrorism and its ambiguities. He is a former Pakistani Civil Servant, for a number of years Professor at American University, who identifies with the British administrative tradition and a...
The Week’s Reading List
In Queen Esther's Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature A lot of reading this week. First, a book on Judaeo-Persian literature. There turns out to be a remarkable amount with an impressive level. Interesting is the parallel with other Western literature. A translation of the Bible...
A Jewish Woman’s Visceral Reaction to Buzzfeed’s 51 Hottest Jewish Men
There are so many questions about this Buzzfeed list. Why so many? Why 51 instead of 50? Does anyone think Jeff Goldblum is hot? And if they do would they really rank him as #16? Obviously taste is subjective but there are some serious issues here....
Interview: Lisa Loeb
Singer-songwriter LIsa Loeb, whose hit song "Stay" became a cultural touchstone for 90's nostalgia, talks to Moment about how religion impacts her music, her Camp Lisa foundation and her 100 pairs of eyeglasses....
The (Soul) Doctor is In
The rabbi is dancing and singing, his congregation swooning, his synagogue…absent. We are watching an actor only pretend to be a rabbi and are sitting in the (not-so) holy confines of a Broadway theatre, watching a preview of the new musical Soul Doctor. The musical...
Indie Picks: Politics and Prose
In this first installment of "Indie Picks," Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, owners of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, recommend a few of their favorite books to Moment readers....
Those Who Go About the City
A Russian immigrant in Jerusalem vanishes, leaving her husband literary clues, from Camus to Austen to Saint-Exupery. Can he decipher the message?...