Book Review // The Lawgiver
The Greatest Story Ever Retold
The Lawgiver
Herman Wouk
Simon & Schuster
2012, $25.99, pp. 232
The Lawgiver, a new novel by the 97-year-old, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Herman Wouk, is...
Book Review // The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
Pillars of Sand
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
Shlomo Sand
Verso Books
2012, $26.95, pp. 304
Shlomo Sand’s latest critique of Jewish identity...
Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York
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...
2012 Emerging Writers
Meet Johanna Adorján and Adam Schwartz,
winners of Moment's annual Emerging
Writer awards celebrating up-and-coming
literary voices.
Fiction winner Adam Schwartz
Adam Schwartz is a senior lecturer of creative writing...
Poem // 3AM Nign
3AM Nign
she sang as if looking through the magnifying glass
lullaby’s every heave,
a thesis on slowing down, peeling –
each note, a pit assessing its fullness
lullaby’s underside,
hymn...
Jewish Word // Dybbuk
A Ghost from Our Past
by Sala Levin
Fans of the film-making, Minnesota-bred brothers Joel and Ethan Coen were transported back to the old country in the...
From the Editor
Is satire educational or does it lead to a shallow understanding of current affairs? Does it weaken the power of news or replace it?
Has the state of American politics become so dire that we can only laugh (despairingly) about it?
Moment’s Exclusive Interview with Ed Koch
Moment editor Nadine Epstein sat down with Ed Koch at his office, just after the mayor arrived from his morning workout at the gym. Here...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Does Birth Control Trump Israel?
Republicans have made Israel their wedge issue. Democrats should make women’s rights theirs.
Amy E. Schwartz: Turkey: Where Doth Erdogan Lead?
Turkish Jews—like everyone else—ponder Islam’s growing presence in a secular country.
Marshall Breger: Surprise, Politics and Religion Don’t Mix
Americans are tired of politicians who wear their religion on their sleeves.
R.B. Berntein: The Reinvention of Thomas Jefferson
Did this Founding Father really intend for the U.S. to be a Christian nation?