Gershom Gorenberg: An Open Letter to American Rabbis
The incident repeats itself with small variations. A rabbi somewhere in America writes to ask if I’ll come speak to his congregation about Israeli politics...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The War Against Women, Take Two
By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In 1959, when I was 19, there was no birth control pill, doctors did not prescribe diaphragms or IUDs for unmarried women,...
From the Editor
By Nadine Epstein
Hannah Brown of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, loves Moment but has a complaint: Too few women are included in Moment symposiums such as the one in...
Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
The Book Thief is a beautiful but haunting story about a young girl living in Nazi Germany. I first read it several...
Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction?
By Moment Staff
Let us start by asking: Is there such a creature as a Jewish writer? Jewish mothers gave birth to Saul Bellow and Bernard...
Double Exposure
By Yoav Stern
A Moment Magazine Special Series Israel's Arab Citizens
Israel’s Arab citizens consume both Arabic and Hebrew newspapers, radio and television. But when it comes...
A Scanner Messianically
R. Justin Stewart may not be the first artist you’d expect to be behind a work called “Distorting (a messiah project, 13c).” The self-described atheist...
Changed from Darth Vaderberg at Ellis Island
Breaking news in "people you didn't know were Jewish": Darth Vader. Yes, some Lucasphiles say that Darth Vader's chestplate (right), revealed in The Empire Strikes...
Getting It All Out in the Open
by Kelley Kidd
Jewish husbands, we think, are educated and upstanding, family men who treat their wives with warmth, kindness and respect. Domestic abuse? Not in...
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...
Sticky Fingers' Sweets and New York Cheesecake Cupcakes
By Monika Wysocki
A self-described “Jew-talian from New York,” Doron Petersan grew up in the land of Jewish delis, bagels, cannoli and knishes. But after assisting...
Sticky Fingers’ Sweets and New York Cheesecake Cupcakes
By Monika Wysocki
A self-described “Jew-talian from New York,” Doron Petersan grew up in the land of Jewish delis, bagels, cannoli and knishes. But after assisting...