by Sala Levin Halloween approacheth, and with it the opportunity to impress your friends with the wittiness and originality of

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September/October 2009 mar09cover Features From Arab to Palestinian Israeli Dina Kraft In the first of a Moment series on Israel's Arab citizens, we meet three generations of one family. Unlike her grandmother and mother, Sham Kalboni, 35, is a political activist. Still, she has no intention of leaving the country ...
In the first of a Moment series on Israel's Arab citizens, we meet three generations of one family. Unlike her grandmother and mother, Sham Kalboni, 35, is a political activist. Still, she has no intention of leaving the country she considers home. Read the introduction to Moment's series on Israel's ...

by Erica Shaps I am not a rabbinical student. My talit was made in Israel and I recently celebrated my

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Eating Chinese in the 1920s and the 1930s was a very urban, sophisticated thing to do. It was cool, but it was also cheap, so they could afford it. ...
Sacha (aka Ali G, Borat, Bruno) is not the only member of this British Jewish family to make a name for himself as a creative rebel. ...
What does it mean to be Jewish today? What do Jews bring to the world? Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Perlman, Ruth Wisse, Geraldine Brooks and other thoughtful Jewish Americans tell Moment what they think. ...

by Beth Kissileff Helen Schulman is the author of novel This Beautiful Life, her fifth novel, which takes on the

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In between bouts and mixing it up at his Brooklyn gym, the world junior middleweight champion is studying to be an Orthodox rabbi. The Belarussian-born, Israeli-reared 29-year-old discusses his boxing—and spiritual—journey. ...

97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side at the

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by Steven Philp While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that

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By Adina Rosenthal There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who

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