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What does it mean to be a Jew today? What do Jews bring to the world today?

15:54 06 October by Moment

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.

Is There Life After Death? Jewish Thinking on the Afterlife

20:58 17 July by Amy E. Schwartz

Ask Jews what happens after death, and many will respond that the Jewish tradition doesn’t say or doesn’t care. But not so fast. When Moment asked an array of prominent Jewish thinkers, artists, writers and other doers to tell us what they think they’re headed for, the range was extraordinary.

Meet the Birdman

20:45 17 July by Sarah Breger

Yossi Leshem—the world-renowned ornithologist and champion of Israel’s environmental movement—resembles a cross between a linebacker and an academic. Frameless glasses perched precariously on his nose, he speeds through Jerusalem’s narrow streets, simultaneously leaning down to fumble for a pamphlet about owls, answering his cell phone and informing me that it is too cloudy to bird-watch.

A Social Media Intifada

16:25 29 June by elisniv

By Adina Rosenthal Move over “Angry Birds.” The newest up-and-coming iPhone app may be for revolutions. While social media platforms have become commonplace in both our vernacular and daily use, they have also played an important role in fomenting recent revolutions. In 2009, thousands took...

A Eulogy for Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg

11:27 02 December by Benjamin Schuman-Stoler

By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler This eulogy for Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg found its way to us at ITM and we think it’s worth sharing with our readers. It is by Hillary Lewin, who met and became friends with the Holtzbergs in Mumbai. Many of you first...

Al Franken Gets Serious

14:22 10 November by Maxine Springer

by David Paul Kuhn Al Franken leans over the scattered papers atop his desk. He puffs out his pasty cheeks. His round brown glasses seem slightly too small for his face. His brown eyebrows arch up and he grins like Jack Nicholson’s Joker in Batman....

Physical Modesty in Judaism: A Response by Rabbi Gershon Winkler

15:39 08 September by Maxine Springer

In our current issue, we printed a letter from a reader who was curious about Rabbi Gershon Winkler’s response to our Ask the Rabbis question (“Who Cares What Women Wear [Or Don’t Wear]?“) in the July/August issue. Here is his response in its entirety: Reader’s...

A Dangerous Place?

10:44 11 August by Mandy Katz

Senior Editor Mandy Katz reports from Israel: Megiddo, an ancient city overseeing the mountain pass from Mesopotamia across the Jezreel Valley, supposedly saw some of history’s fiercest battles. Indeed, many Christians expect an even bigger conflagration there, as the site is also called “Armageddon,” a...

Black Jews and the 2008 Presidential Election

16:43 17 July by nonnka

One of my favorite Soviet jokes goes like this: An old Jew is taking a walk in a Moscow park when he sees a young black guy sitting on a bench reading a Yiddish newspaper. “What, it is not enough for you that you are...

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