Election 2012: What Readers Had to Say
After the presidential election wrapped up last week, we asked our readers what they thought about the results. Read on to see what some of...
How Jewish Candidates Fared
While Jewish support for President Barack Obama’s re-election was lower than expected—69 percent, compared to 74 percent in 2008—Jews played a major role in many...
The Madeleine Effect
Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed.
Has foreign policy become women’s work?
There’s a story Madeleine Albright likes to...
Sarah Posner: If Corporations are people, what’s their religion?
Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom
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.
Marshall Breger: Surprise, Politics and Religion Don’t Mix
Americans are tired of politicians who wear their religion on their sleeves.
David K. Shipler: America Before Religious Freedom
Until the separation of church and state, the colonies were a hotbed of persecution.
The Jewish Presidential Candidate You Don’t Know
You won’t see her in the debates, but the Green Party’s Jill Stein has a lot to say
Ask The Rabbis | Will It Matter to Jews If There Is a Mormon President?
INDEPENDENT
Historically, the religious affiliation of a governmental leader has never been an issue for the Jewish people, as long as the government involved was not...
Marshall Breger: U.S. Citizenship: Priceless or Merely Convenient?
By Marshall Breger
In 2011, Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that U.S. nationals, “homegrown” or otherwise, be stripped of their citizenship if they are “engaging in or...
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,...