Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom ...
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The Greatest Story Ever Retold The Lawgiver Herman Wouk Simon & Schuster 2012, $25.99, pp. 232 The Lawgiver, a new

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Pillars of Sand The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland Shlomo Sand Verso Books 2012,

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The Big (Jewish) Apple City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York Edited by Deborah Dash Moore

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Meet Johanna Adorján and Adam Schwartz, winners of Moment’s annual Emerging Writer awards celebrating up-and-coming literary voices.   Fiction winner

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3AM Nign she sang as if looking through the magnifying glass lullaby’s every heave, a thesis on slowing down, peeling

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A Ghost from Our Past by Sala Levin Fans of the film-making, Minnesota-bred brothers Joel and Ethan Coen were transported

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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 editor Nadine Epstein sat down with Ed Koch at his office, just after the mayor arrived from his morning

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Republicans have made Israel their wedge issue. Democrats should make women's rights theirs. ...