Al Franken Gets Serious
by David Paul Kuhn
Al Franken leans over the scattered papers atop his desk. He puffs out his pasty cheeks. His round brown glasses seem slightly...
Post-Obama Fix: Jerusalem's Mayoral Election
In a haze of post-Obamania deflation this week, I turned for a political fix to Jerusalem and the hotly contested mayoral election taking place tomorrow....
November/December Issue of Moment
It's on newsstands now!
The election is over. Take a deep breath. Now, curl up at home with the new issue of Moment.
First you'll meet Jonathan...
Obama's Jewish CIA Director: Anthony Lake?
The New York Times claims Lake can have the job if he wants it. While it's not clear that he does, he's certainly in the...
Is Rahm Emanuel the Jewish LBJ?
Who is Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama’s new Chief of Staff)?
For starters, he’s Jewish. He, his wife Amy, and their three children attend the Anshei Sholom...
Hail, Obama. I guess.
I have been absent from this blog for a few weeks, after a few half-hearted attempts at an entry on rumors about whether Sarah...
McCain's Supporters In Brooklyn
A group of journalism graduate students at Columbia University put together this interesting study of how Brooklyn is politically divided ("Bleeding Red for McCain") on...
More from actor Kirk Douglas about being Jewish
We hope you've all seen our exclusive interview with actor Kirk Douglas in the September/October issue of Moment in which he talks with his rabbi,...
Palestinians Inaugurate National Soccer Stadium
Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics?...
Finding the "Real (Jewish) Americans"
More than 200 professors of Jewish studies have joined to form the latest Jews-for-Obama group, reports The Jewish Daily Forward. But the Republican Jewish Coalition...
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