2012 November-December Archives

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Arts, Big Questions, Culture

How Does Satire Influence Politics?

July 25, 2019
By Moment
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The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the di...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Interview, Politics, U.S. Politics, Women

The Madeleine Effect

Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed. Has foreign policy become women’s...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Food, Talk of the Table

Lox: An American Love Story

July 25, 2019
By Eileen Lavine
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by Eileen Lavine When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with “appetizing” stores, that—unlike...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Fiction, Series

Fiction // Roots

December 2, 2015
By Joan Leegant
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by Joan Leegant Hirschman, unwilling to bend, was refusing to participate. A lifelong agnostic, and proud of it, he’d managed for 82...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Culture

Test Your Jewish IQ // Comedy edition

December 11, 2012
By Moment
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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 matter.” 2 | “I’...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Ask the Rabbis, Latest, Religion

Ask the Rabbis // What Makes Someone a “Real” Rabbi?

July 25, 2019
By Moment
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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 teachings and ...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, International, Opinion

Clifford D. May: The Mirage of the Arab Spring

March 28, 2014
By navid
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The Islamist movement could sabotage democratic reforms in the Arab world. We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone...

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Opinion, Politics, Religion, U.S. Politics

Sarah Posner: If Corporations are people, what’s their religion?

March 28, 2014
By navid
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Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Israel, Opinion, Politics, Religion

Eetta Prince-Gibson: The Trouble with Drafting the Ultra-Orthodox

March 28, 2014
By Eetta Prince-Gibson
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Conscripting Haredi men hurts women, the military and Israeli democracy

01 Nov

2012 November-December, Opinion, Religion, Women

Naomi Ragen: An Orthodox Woman on the Bima

March 28, 2014
By Naomi Ragen
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Our columnist leaves her comfort zone and accepts an aliyah for the first time.

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