Culinary Lessons from a Libyan Prison
A year after he was arrested in Libya on charges of espionage and incarcerated for five months, Rafael Rafram Chaddad savors his freedom by sautéing...
Book Review | More Desired than Our Owne Salvation
Paul Baumann reviews “More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism” by Robert O. Smith
From Pickles to Salmon, the Joys of Kosher-Style
The nostalgic tale of “kosher-style” foods
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...
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 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...
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...
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.
Fiction // 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?