An investigation into the religious roots of the symbols for hugs & kisses. ...
When I was a teenager, there was a legend repeated in the Jewish schools of my hometown. If you somehow manage to get into godless Harvard, don’t go. But if, against your rosh yeshiva and rebbe’s advice, you actually go, whatever you do, don’t take biblical scholar James Kugel’s class. ...

INDEPENDENT Judaism does not restrict a woman in regard to her choices concerning pregnancy. She has a choice to bear

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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Fiction // July was Reva’s month to fall apart. She slept through the alarm and ignored her husband’s attempts to rouse her. She showered sporadically. She added bourbon to her morning coffee. She stopped answering email, her cell phone, the door. She arrived late to the summer ...

By Amy E. Schwartz An American offshoot of the Qatari network makes some watchdogs nervous. Media observers buzzed with consternation

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By Tamara Cofman Wittes The United States needs to accept that the days of one-man rule are gone forever. Three years

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By Marshall Breger How can the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state if Israelis don’t know what that means? In 1958,

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By Sarah Posner The time has passed when one person can speak for the entire community. When Abraham Foxman, the

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Richard Bernstein reviews two new works on anti-Semitism by Edmund Levin and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. ...

Life Beyond Portnoy By Alan Stone Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books Claudia Roth Pierpont Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013,

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How Philistine Became a Dirty Word by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil t’s a story nearly everyone knows: The young shepherd boy uses

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With the Winter Olympics set to open in Sochi, Russia, in February, Moment’s Josh Tapper talks to David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Olympics and president of the International Society of Olympic Historians. ...