A Vegan Seder?
This year will be the third year my Jewish vegan friends and I celebrate “veder,” our version of a vegan Passover seder. All of the...
Will Catholic-Jewish Relations Improve Under Pope Francis?
“We have been given arguably the most positive result one could want in terms of Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi Noam Marans, director of interreligious and intergroup...
Do 1 Rabba, 2 Rabbis and 1 Yeshiva = a New Denomination?
As mainstream Orthodoxy moves to the Right,
a liberal faction gains momentum
The audience watches with rapt attention as Sara Hurwitz, a slim woman in a demure...
From the Moment Bookshelf: Books in Brief
Books in Brief: Senior editor Eileen Lavine reviews new and forthcoming titles
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski (translated from the Polish) is an unusual crime story...
Debate of the Moment: Holocaust Insurance Claims
Stuart Eizenstat and Samuel Dubbin have very different points of view about how to handle Holocaust insurance claims.
Travel in Jewish circles these days and you...
Opinion | Messiahs at the Movies
By Sala Levin
Moment Presents Ten Messianic Flicks
Superman (1978)
In Richard Donner’s adaptation of the comic-book classic, Jor-El (Marlon Brando) launches his son Kal-El (Hebrew for “voice...
Jewish Ethics: Hillel and Shammai Weigh in on Gun Rights
“A Jew dare not live with absolute certainty, not only because certainty is the hallmark of the fanatic...but also because doubt is good for the...
From the Editor
One could argue that Israel is the country where non-Orthodox Jews have the least religious freedom: They can’t marry, divorce or convert according to their...
Jewish Word | Moser
The Jewish Snitch
by Sala Levin
Earlier this year, Nechemya Weberman, a member of the Hasidic Satmar community in New York, was sentenced to 103 years in...
Book Review | jews and words
Stefan Kanfer reviews jews and words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger.
The Most Notorious Anti-Jewish Official in American History
Kaskel’s Chutzpah
By Gary Stein
“Your people must leave all the villages,” the government official barked. “The district must be emptied. I have an order here!” With...
Ask the Rabbis // Are Tattoos and Body Piercings Taboo?
Independent
The Torah’s proscriptions of tattoos applied to imitating religio-cultic ways of peoples who don’t exist anymore, such as Hittites and Yevusites, and later to any...