By Maxine Springer A new series of postage stamps celebrating four U.S. justices includes Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, two of seven Jewish justices in the history of the High Court. Brandeis, a Zionist who once said, "To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and...
By Nadine Epstein and John O’Leary When does a Communist equal a liberal equal a Jew? Today, if you delete the word "Communist." But the phrase was most applicable in the 1950s during the heyday of McCarthy with the blacklisting of actors and writers, who most...
By Sarah Breger Fashion week drew to a close yesterday and some of the hottest designs were from Ralph Lauren, Diane von Furstenberg and Isaac Mizrachi. Find out about their previous lives as Ralph Rueben Lifshitz, Diane Simone Michelle Halfin and … Isaac Mizrahi, in Moment's...
By Sarah Breger The interweb has been abuzz this past weekend over the publication of the NYT magazine profile of J Street. Critics of the left-leaning Israel group have promptly responded, asserting that having moderate Arab and Muslim board members makes the group anti-Israel and calling...
By Sarah Breger The Forward launches The Sisterhood, a website "devoted to the issues impacting Jewish women of all ages, denominations and political ideologies." [The Sisterhood] Speaking of Jewish women, Tznius-ista, a company for women who want to wear high-fashion but still keep Orthodox standards of...
Get ShortlinkBy Sarah Breger On Tuesday Harvard’s campus newspaper The Crimson published a full page ad from a Holocaust denial group, prompting outrage pretty much everywhere. The ad was submitted by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust and challenged readers to “provide, with proof, the...
By Sarah Breger Gossip Girl may be the key to Mideast Peace. Especially Chuck Bass. [Tablet] Joanna Rakoff Smith looks at the portrayal of Judaism on the TV show Weeds. [Jewcy] Haredi Girls are being paid not to wear make-up. Over-protective dads everywhere take note. [Ynet] Shalom Seseme...
by Sarah Breger So now Jews have jumped on the "dancing down the aisle" meme. In an homage to the overplayed, yet undeniably adorable, Chris Brown "Forever" wedding dance intro, some Orthodox Jews have jumped on the bandwagon and created a dance sequence of their own. Set...
By Michelle Albert Jewish singer Bob Dylan is working on an album of Christmas music. Puns such as "Sleigh Lady Sleigh" and "A Hard Reindeer's A-Gonna Fall" are already making the rounds. [Reuters] (PS: read Moment's article about Bob Dylan here.) A swastika was painted outside Georgia...
By Michelle Albert A new children's book tells the story of how Max Yasgur, a Jewish dairy farmer in Bethel, NY, allowed half a million people to camp out in his backyard for Woodstock, which would become a defining moment in rock and roll history. [Haaretz] Jewish...