Moment tests the DNA of 15 notable American Jews—including Joshua Bell, Mayim Bialik, David Brooks, Alan Dershowitz, A.J. Jacobs, Robert Siegel and Tovah Feldshuh—to see if and how they are related. Surprise, surprise, they are! And how! ...
Sometime in my mid-teens, I asked to join the CYO basketball team at the parish church in my New Jersey hometown. For the uninitiated, CYO stands for Catholic Youth Organization, and it was the group to which my two best friends belonged. Jimmy Lyons lived across the street from me, ...
by Sala Levin Located at the geographic crossroads of Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Israel is a
...Stuart Eizenstat and Samuel Dubbin have very different points of view about how to handle Holocaust insurance claims. Travel in
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Republicans have made Israel their wedge issue. Democrats should make women's rights theirs. ...
Turkish Jews—like everyone else—ponder Islam's growing presence in a secular country. ...
Americans are tired of politicians who wear their religion on their sleeves. ...
Until the separation of church and state, the colonies were a hotbed of persecution. ...
Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Harper 2012, $27.99, pp. 465 The most perilous pitfall for a tour de force is that
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You won’t see her in the debates, but the Green Party’s Jill Stein has a lot to say ...
Swift acceptance of gays by the Israeli Defense Forces in 1993 helped transform Israel into one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world. Moment looks at the history—and the future—of the gay rights movement in Israel, from the rainbow flag-strewn streets of Tel Aviv to the more traditional enclave ...
For centuries, political philosophers have thought of democracy as a Greek idea, but it turns out there are a myriad of ways to attribute democratic ideas to the Jewish people. Noah Feldman, Jodi Kantor, Ruth Wisse, Ed Koch, Shlomo Avineri and others weigh in. ...