Book Q&A: Naomi Schaefer Riley
Naomi Schaefer Riley, a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, is the author most recently of 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage...
Herod the Great?
Norman Gelb is the author of many works of history, including The Berlin Wall, Less Than Glory, Desperate Venture, and Kings of the Jews. His...
Meet the Maharats: Questions for Rachel Kohl Finegold
Yesterday, Moment published an interview with Ruth Balinsky Friedman, who will graduate next month from the first school to train Orthodox female clergy. Today, Moment...
Meet the Maharats: Questions for Ruth Balinsky Friedman
In June the inaugural class of Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to train Orthodox women as spiritual leaders and halakhic authorities, will graduate. The three...
Jews and Psychiatry?
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is coming out on May 18....
Shavuot Blintzes: Take Your Lactaid, Folks
Shavuot, the holiday that marks the receiving of the Torah and the annual cheesecake overload, begins on the evening of Tuesday, May 14. The holiday...
The Best Entries from the 2013 Jewish Pets Contest
Check out the finalists—from Nacho’s bark mitzvah to Reuven’s meow mitzvah.
Glenn Frankel on “The Searchers”
Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent many years as a Washington Post reporter and editor, now serves as director of the School of...
Books about Jews in Washington, DC
A supplement to our special Washington, DC Jewish American Heritage Guide:
The Jews of Washington, D.C. : A Communal History Anthology edited by David Altshuler, 1985,...
On Kaddish
Six hundred and thirty one kaddishes ago my dad passed away. Each day, since we buried him, I wake when it’s dark, retire when it’s dark,...
The (Not-So) Jewish Tao of Howard Wolowitz
The Big Bang Theory, the perennially popular CBS sitcom centered around the social and romantic woes of three exceedingly intelligent physicists and one engineer, is...
Genesis Secularized: An Exchange Between Ronald Hendel and Jon Levenson
Genesis Secularized
I’m delighted that Jon Levenson has good things to say about my book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography in Moment's March/April issue. In...