The Week’s Reading List
A Jewish Woman’s Visceral Reaction to Buzzfeed’s 51 Hottest Jewish Men
2013 Guide to Jewish Genetic Diseases
Moment examines the genetic mutations that increase the risk of certain cancers in women and men of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, plus an interview with BRCA gene pioneer Mary-Claire King.
Interview: Lisa Loeb
Singer-songwriter LIsa Loeb, whose hit song “Stay” became a cultural touchstone for 90’s nostalgia, talks to Moment about how religion impacts her music, her Camp Lisa foundation and her 100 pairs of eyeglasses.
The (Soul) Doctor is In
Indie Picks: Politics and Prose
In this first installment of “Indie Picks,” Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, owners of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, recommend a few of their favorite books to Moment readers.
The Ninth of Av in the Shadow of the Shoah
The English Girl: A Kidnapping That’s Part Mirth, Part Mayhem
Letter from Cambodia
Nearly four decades after the Khmer Rouge massacre of close to two million Cambodians, a war crimes tribunal tries to convict the regime’s surviving leaders. But poverty, corruption, government resistance and Buddhist precepts that discourage examination of the past impede justice.