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2012 November-December, Book Review, History

Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York

March 28, 2014
By Sam Roberts
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The Big (Jewish) Apple City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York Edited by Deborah Dash Moore NYU Press 2012, $99.00, pp. 1108 (3 volumes) Brownsville, where I...

History, Opinion, Uncategorized

R.B. Berntein: The Reinvention of Thomas Jefferson

June 4, 2013
By R.B. Berntein
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Did this Founding Father really intend for the U.S. to be a Christian nation?

2012 September-October, History, Opinion, Religion, U.S. Politics

David K. Shipler: America Before Religious Freedom

June 4, 2013
By David K. Shipler
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Until the separation of church and state, the colonies were a hotbed of persecution.

History, Latest, topics

The St. Louis, Then and Now

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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By Sarah Breger The contentious debate over Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his actions during the Holocaust is ongoing. There are those who argue that FDR was...

History, Latest

Recordings of German Soldiers’ Conversations Rediscovered

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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New research has unearthed conversations among German POWs during World War II--recorded by British intelligence--that reveals the extent to which some German soldiers knew about...

History, Latest, Religion

Jesus’ wife?

October 11, 2012
By daphnamoment
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The Da Vinci Code—which popularized the notion that Jesus was married—is back in the news with the discovery of a fourth century papyrus text written...

Arts & Culture, Culture, History, Latest

Arabian Nights, Jewish Dreams

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Martin Berman-Gorvine Janice Weizman’s The Wayward Moonmarks a refreshing departure in the Jewish historical novel, which is all too prone to focus on a limited...

History, Latest, Religion, topics

The (True) Myth of the Jewish Democrat

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Daniela Enriquez Elections are around the corner and once again the question presents itself—are Jews by nature Democrats? That American Jews tend to lean left...

History, Latest, topics

TIAA-CREF Divests from Caterpillar

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Julia Glauberman In recent weeks, TIAA-CREF, a leading financial services organization that manages nearly $500 billion in assets, has announced that it will remove Caterpillar,...

Arts & Culture, Culture, History, Latest

Remembering Sholom Aleichem

March 2, 2019
By momentadmin
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by Kara A. Kaufman It’s not every day that you see your own photograph in a newspaper, much less a Russian publication printed halfway around the...

History, Misc, topics

Escape from Freedom?

February 1, 2013
By Moment
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By Martin Berman-Gorvine As Passover approaches, I have been reading the psychologist Erich Fromm’s 1941 work, Escape from Freedom. Writing when Nazi Germany was at its...

Culture, History, Religion, U.S. Politics

How Jerry Falwell Changed the Republican Party

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Jerry Falwell “stamped out” anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, said Michael Sean Winters, a reporter for the National Catholic Reporter—and no Falwell...

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