07
Jan
Opinion // Jews Aren’t the Only Ones Marrying Out
By Mark Oppenheimer // Fewer and fewer American religious groups practice endogamy today.
07
Jan
Opinion // Rip-Off Rabbis and Sacred Scammers
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Naomi Ragen
By Naomi Ragen // Several high-profile Israeli rabbis have come under fire for less-than-holy schemes.
02
Jan
Week in Review: Ariel Sharon, Israel’s Prisoner Release, New Year’s Predictions and much more!
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Moment
Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday—the third group set free since peace negotiations with the Palestinians started last July—while at the same time unveiling...
31
Dec
Opinion // Will Israel and the U.S. Break Up over Iran?
By Robert Satloff
Differing approaches to Iran's nuclear program do not bode well for Israel in 2014.
Israel begins 2014 facing a truly Dickensian moment—enjoying the best...
31
Dec
Opinion // The Politics and Ethics of Street Tzedakah
By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
There are many reasons not to give to the homeless, but we should do it anyway.
When I was young, it was axiomatic...
31
Dec
Ask the Rabbis // Religion & Science
In what ways, if any, do science and Judaism conflict?
31
Dec
Moment in Music // Michael Bloomfield
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Josh Tapper
By Josh Tapper
On February 15, 1981, Michael Bloomfield’s body was discovered in a parked car on a San Francisco side street. The 37-year-old Jewish blues guitar...
31
Dec
Natural Gas: Israel’s Game Changer
Recent discoveries of large natural gas reserves off Israel’s coast will soon transform the country into an energy exporter, and bring in billions of dollars in new revenue. But the new finds also open up a Pandora’s Box of environmental, financial, social, security and foreign policy concerns.
24
Dec
Moment’s Best of 2013
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In case you missed them, take a look back at some of Moment’s best—and most provocative—stories from the past year.
A House Divided
At apartheid’s end,...
22
Dec
Michael Doran on the “Bad Deal” with Iran
By Lucille Marshall
America’s recent agreement with Iran is a “bad deal,” former Bush National Security Council official Michael Doran told students and community members at...
19
Dec
Week in Review: Israel’s Bedouin Resettlement Plan, “Homeland”‘s Diplomatic Impact and more!
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Last week the Israeli government announced it was suspending the controversial Bedouin resettlement bill, a five-year economic development initiative that would have legalized and provided...
18
Dec
Q&A: Sochi 2014, Russia’s Gays and the Jewish Response
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Yelena Goltsman, of RUSA LGBT, a support group for Russian-speaking gay people in the United States, on Russia’s anti-gay policies and the Sochi Olympics.