24
May
The Muskie
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By
Stuart Rosh
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
Herod the Great?
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By
Deborah Kalb
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
Meet the Maharats: Questions for Rachel Kohl Finegold
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By
Sarah Breger
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
Symposium: The Origins of Jewish Creativity
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By
Moment
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...
21
May
Meet the Maharats: Questions for Ruth Balinsky Friedman
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By
In June the inaugural class of Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to train Orthodox women as spiritual leaders and halakhic authorities, will graduate. The three...
20
May
Book Review | Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
Saul Friedländer
Yale University Press
2013, $25.00, pp. 200
“Dearest Max, my last request: everything I leave behind me…in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and...
20
May
Jewish Word | Ghetto
Venice, Harlem and Beyond
There are few words that so acutely symbolize discrimination as “ghetto.” It was coined in Venice in 1516 to refer to a...
20
May
Children’s Book Author Interview: Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen, author of the classic The Devil’s Arithmetic, is the renowned author of more than 300 books. Her books, poems and stories have won...
20
May
Jews and the San Francisco Gold Rush
In the early 1850s, Adolph Sutro, a cocky young man with a thick walrus moustache, headed west to make his fortune. Originally from Prussia, Sutro...
15
May
A Kosher Tea Party
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By
Niv Elis
“There’s a notion out there that the Tea Party is racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim,” says David Spielman, the Campaign Coordinator for the Tea Party organization FreedomWorks....
14
May
Moment Mythbusters: Jews and Pets
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By
Sala Levin
Today, the question of whether Jews dislike domestic pets may seem preposterous.
13
May
Jews and Psychiatry?
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is coming out on May 18....