Jewish Word // Dybbuk
A Ghost from Our Past
by Sala Levin
Fans of the film-making, Minnesota-bred brothers Joel and Ethan Coen were transported back to the old country in the...
How Does Satire Influence Politics?
The Intersection of Politics and Satire.
A Moment Symposium
Robert Mankoff
Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference between appearance and reality in public life. The...
The Madeleine Effect
Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed.
Has foreign policy become women’s work?
There’s a story Madeleine Albright likes to...
Lox: An American Love Story
by Eileen Lavine
When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with “appetizing” stores, that—unlike delicatessens, which sold...
Fiction // Roots
This story is the second-place winner of the 2011 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...
Test Your Jewish IQ // Comedy edition
Who Said What?
1 | “Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
2 | “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when...
Ask the Rabbis // What Makes Someone a “Real” Rabbi?
INDEPENDENT
It is the community more than anything else that makes someone a rabbi. If the community finds a person’s teachings and leadership inspiring and enriching,...
Clifford D. May: The Mirage of the Arab Spring
The Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab world.
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So...
Sarah Posner: If Corporations are people, what’s their religion?
Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom
Eetta Prince-Gibson: The Trouble with Drafting the Ultra-Orthodox
Conscripting Haredi men hurts women, the military and Israeli democracy
Naomi Ragen: An Orthodox Woman on the Bima
Our columnist leaves her comfort zone and accepts an aliyah for the first time.
Book Review // The Lawgiver
The Greatest Story Ever Retold
The Lawgiver
Herman Wouk
Simon & Schuster
2012, $25.99, pp. 232
The Lawgiver, a new novel by the 97-year-old, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Herman Wouk, is...