2010 January-February
Beyond Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol
16:37 04 October
in 2010 January-February
Moment takes you inside the secret world of Freemasons, probing the similarities between Judiasm 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...
Poem—Michael Sandler
16:17 04 October
in 2010 January-February
Lokshin Kugel Noodles. Perhaps they’re chosen—the lokshin, pasta— because they’ve wandered far—not Marco Polo or some Khan but from Jerusalem’s Talmud (Beitza 60d) which calls it itriyta, something preserved—afterward, Arabs lade itriyah on feluccas bound for Marsala, not the fresh noodles, lakhsha (from Persian, not Parmesan) that exiles in Venice later roll...
Marshall Breger: Gay Activists vs. the First Amendment
Whatever the ultimate success of the movement for same sex marriage, one would hope that its adherents would be sensitive to the political and religious rights of their opponents. This does not seem to be the case. Proposition 8, a successful voter-initiated California constitutional amendment that...
Opinion—Eric Alterman
Has J Street Been Defamed? Sarah Palin says that Israel’s West Bank settlements “should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months...
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....