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Meet the Maharats: Questions for Rachel Kohl Finegold

June 4, 2013
By Sarah Breger
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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...

Interview, Latest, Religion, Women

Meet the Maharats: Questions for Ruth Balinsky Friedman

June 4, 2013
By Sarah Breger
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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...

Culture, Latest, Science, Uncategorized

Jews and Psychiatry?

June 4, 2013
By JAY NEUGEBOREN MICHAEL B. FRIEDMAN and LLOYD I. SEDERER
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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....

Culture, Food, Latest, Religion

Shavuot Blintzes: Take Your Lactaid, Folks

May 11, 2021
By Lori Riegel
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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...

Culture, Latest, Moment Magazine

The Best Entries from the 2013 Jewish Pets Contest

November 26, 2019
By Moment
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Check out the finalists—from Nacho’s bark mitzvah to Reuven’s meow mitzvah.

Book Review, History, Interview, Latest

Glenn Frankel on “The Searchers”

June 4, 2013
By Deborah Kalb
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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...

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Books about Jews in Washington, DC

May 3, 2013
By Moment
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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,...

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On Kaddish

May 6, 2013
By Adam Reinherz
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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,...

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The (Not-So) Jewish Tao of Howard Wolowitz

May 1, 2013
By Dan Clanton
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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...

Book Review, Latest, Religion

Genesis Secularized: An Exchange Between Ronald Hendel and Jon Levenson

June 4, 2013
By Moment
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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...