Fiction // A Beggar’s Place
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...
The Spicy Tale of India’s Jewish Cuisine
Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace your grandmother’s holiday table. But...
From the Editor | January/February 2013
Anxiety is not exclusively a Jewish trait, although as a people long subject to persecution, we continue to pass it on to our children.
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At Home With Norman Podhoretz
Having abandoned the left six decades ago, The 83-year-old former editor of Commentary and grumpy grandfather of the right is still waiting for the majority...
Inside Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Two years after the dawn of the Arab Spring and six months after Mohamed Morsi was elected president, democracy is still a work in progress...
Notable Cookbooks
From Brooklyn to Jerusalem to the Greek isles, a new batch of Jewish cookbooks takes you on a whirlwind tour of Jewish gastronomy.
The Mile End...
Ask the Rabbis: Does Jewish anxiety have a theological basis?
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Anxiety is a universal human malady that strikes when we find ourselves at the crossroads of choice-making, equipped with several hefty wagonloads of relativities and...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Why Can’t We Show Empathy for the Palestinians?
The American Jewish thought police are quick to label sympathy a betrayal of Israel.
Robert Satloff: Will 2013 Be an Unlucky Year for Israel?
The many dangers lurking in the Middle East are likely to spell conflict, not peace.
Aluf Benn: Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Drift Further Apart
How can the next Israeli government bridge the growing secular-religious divide?
Yagil Levy: Israel’s New Hierarchy of Death
Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Israeli, Gazan: Whose life is least valuable?
Amy E. Schwartz: World Museums Rethink Islamic Art
The next generation of exhibits builds bridges in ways you might not expect.