06
Mar
Ask The Rabbis // How Do We Balance Civility With Disapproval For Others’ Politics?
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Moment
We should learn from our sages.
06
Mar
Opinion // Why Sodom Was Destroyed
Religious Jews should be first in line to help today’s refugees and strangers.
06
Mar
Opinion // How to Live with the Elephant in the Room
American Jews and American Muslims have had a lot of reasons lately to come together. But often when these two communities join forces, whether for joint action or for dialogue, there’s an elephant in the room—a pachyderm with a Palestinian on it.
06
Mar
Opinion // Destroying ISIS is Just the Beginning
Outsiders alone won’t be able to fix the multiple messes in the Middle East.
06
Mar
From The Editor — March/April 2017
When I left off writing in our last issue, anti-Semitism had made a startling comeback in the United States, and Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, was about to be installed as chief strategist to the new man in the White House.
01
Mar
At Camp With Bob Dylan
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Joel Unowsky
My enduring memory of Bob Dylan from that summer is of a young man sitting on the roof of one of the cabins, strumming on a guitar and singing loudly with his characteristic high-pitched nasal twang.
24
Feb
Elor Azaria is Not My Son
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Sarah Breger
Azaria entered the courtroom with an in-your-face smile, mugging for the cameras, acting more like a superstar than a soldier convicted of manslaughter. His mother was wearing blue and white nail polish, the letters on each nail spelling out “mother’s hero.”
21
Feb
An American Jew in Israel
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By Uri Regev
Jessica Fishman's skillfully written memoir Chutzpah and High Heels: The Search for Love and Identity in the Holy Land presents to the reader...
15
Feb
What Netanyahu and Israel Owe American Jews
Netanyahu has a responsibility to confront anti-Semitism worldwide. And that includes an increasingly vocal anti-Semitism in the U.S.
14
Feb
Trump and Netanyahu: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Trump and Netanyahu have joined forces, and we won’t be able to overcome the one without overcoming the other. Resistance to one of this Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dumber twinset requires resistance to the other.
13
Feb
What Will The Jewish World Look Like In 2050?
A Moment Symposium with Sarah Bunin Benor,David Biale, Steven M. Cohen, Alan Cooperman, Arnold Dashefsky, Anita Diamant, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Samuel Heilman, William Helmreich, Bethamie Horowitz, Ari Y. Kelman, Barry A. Kosmin, Sergio della Pergola, Leonard Saxe, Ira Sheskin, Arnon Soffer
06
Feb
Remaking the Modern-Day Synagogue
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Ellen Wexler
For Dovi Scheiner, a synagogue is a place for prayer and pilates, for coffee breaks and comedy and film screenings. But perhaps most importantly, it is a living room.