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12 Jun

2006 March-April, Ask the Rabbis

What Does Judaism Say About Organ Donation?

July 25, 2019
By Moment
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Secular Humanism For Humanistic Jews, there is no greater value than the sanctity of life. We honor the traditional notion of pikuah nefesh, the concept that...

11 Jun

Arts, Culture

A Moment With Dov Krulwich

September 4, 2018
By Nadine Epstein
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By day he’s Dr. Bruce Krulwich, a computer scientist working in Israel’s high-tech industry. The rest of the time he’s Dov Krulwich, literary-religious sleuth, scouring...

11 Jun

2008 November-December, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

Will the Real Shrek Please Stand Up?

June 5, 2017
By Joan Alpert
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Children love Shrek, the sweet green ogre and beloved cartoon character who starred, thanks to DreamWorks, in “his” first flick in 2001. What most don’t...

11 Jun

2009 July-August, Culture, Food, Talk of the Table

Talk of the Table | Jewish Fizz: Seltzer, Egg Creams & Cel-Ray

July 11, 2023
By Joan Alpert
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The old joke goes like this: An elderly Jewish man falls on a New York street on a hot summer day; a doctor rushes through...

07 Jun

Latest

What Rosh Hodesh Means for Jewish Democracy

June 7, 2013
By Rabbi Iris Richman
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The Jewish calendar is structured on lunar activity. Every time there is a new moon, a Hebrew month begins. We read in Exdous that God...

05 Jun

Uncategorized

All Is Heaven with Avigdor Lieberman

June 6, 2017
By Lily Galili
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The young waitress in the Tel Aviv hotel lobby can’t hide her excitement. The most controversial politician in Israel is here, ever impatient and attired...

29 May

Culture, History, Latest

Spinoza, the Modern-Day Radical

June 4, 2013
By Jon Catlin
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You probably already know that 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was radical for his time—from his notorious excommunication from the Amsterdam Jewish community at age...

28 May

Book Review, Culture, Interview, Latest, Religion

Book Q&A: Naomi Schaefer Riley

June 4, 2013
By Deborah Kalb
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Naomi Schaefer Riley, a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, is the author most recently of 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage...

24 May

Fiction

The Muskie

May 24, 2013
By Stuart Rosh
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It’s a picture in one of 13 shoeboxes of pictures. 1973. Two middle-aged men stand leaning forward against the top rail of a fence. One...

23 May

Book Review, History, Latest

Herod the Great?

June 4, 2013
By Deborah Kalb
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Norman Gelb is the author of many works of history, including The Berlin Wall, Less Than Glory, Desperate Venture, and Kings of the Jews. His...

22 May

Latest, Religion, Women

Meet the Maharats: Questions for Rachel Kohl Finegold

June 4, 2013
By Sarah Breger
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Yesterday, Moment published an interview with Ruth Balinsky Friedman, who will graduate next month from the first school to train Orthodox female clergy. Today, Moment...

21 May

2011 November-December, Big Questions, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Symposium: The Origins of Jewish Creativity

October 2, 2024
By Moment
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Moment talks with artists, scientists and scholars to illuminate the source of human creativity. Interviews by Sarah Breger, Nadine Epstein, Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Sala Levin and...