What does it mean to be Jewish today? What do Jews bring to the world? Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Perlman, Ruth Wisse, Geraldine Brooks and other thoughtful Jewish Americans tell Moment what they think. ...

by Beth Kissileff Helen Schulman is the author of novel This Beautiful Life, her fifth novel, which takes on the

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The new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby has created a storm in the Jewish world: Some credit it with opening a much-needed debate on American Middle East policy, and others accuse it of playing into the hands of Israel’s enemies. Moment tells the story of the group’s rise and of its founder, ...

Whatever the ultimate success of the movement for same sex marriage, one would hope that its adherents would be sensitive

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Has J Street Been Defamed? Sarah Palin says that Israel’s West Bank settlements “should be allowed to be expanded upon,

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In between bouts and mixing it up at his Brooklyn gym, the world junior middleweight champion is studying to be an Orthodox rabbi. The Belarussian-born, Israeli-reared 29-year-old discusses his boxing—and spiritual—journey. ...

97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side at the

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by Steven Philp While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that

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By Adina Rosenthal There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who

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It’s a behavior every Jewish person has participated, and all of their non-Jewish friends have witnessed. Jewish geography: the game

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by Theodore Samets “Of the roughly 17,000 guys who’ve played professional baseball, precious few are Jews.” That was how Scott

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