21 May

Interview, Latest, Religion, Women

Meet the Maharats: Questions for Ruth Balinsky Friedman

• June 4, 2013
• By Sarah Breger
• 1 comment

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...

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20 May

2013 May-June, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

• May 31, 2017
• By Alan A. Stone
• 2 comments

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...

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20 May

2013 May-June, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Jewish Word, Jewish World

Jewish Word | Ghetto

• July 25, 2019
• By Eileen Lavine
• 3 comments

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...

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20 May

2013 May-June, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Children’s Book Author Interview: Jane Yolen

• May 31, 2017
• By Nadine Epstein
• 1 comment

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...

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20 May

2011 September-October, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

Jews and the San Francisco Gold Rush

• June 1, 2017
• By Jeremy Gillick
• 4 comments

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...

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15 May

Religion, Uncategorized

A Kosher Tea Party

• June 4, 2013
• By Niv Elis
• 0 comments

“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....

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14 May

2013 May-June, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Moment Mythbusters: Jews and Pets

• July 17, 2024
• By Sala Levin
• 6 comments

Today, the question of whether Jews dislike domestic pets may seem preposterous.

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13 May

Culture, Jewish Science and Health - Moment Magazine, Latest, Uncategorized

Jews and Psychiatry?

• June 4, 2013
• By JAY NEUGEBOREN MICHAEL B. FRIEDMAN and LLOYD I. SEDERER
• 3 comments

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....

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13 May

2011 March-April, Israel, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Talk of the Table

Lebanon vs. Israel: A Delicious Culinary War

• March 11, 2024
• By Alix Mckenna
• 1 comment

The Lebanese counterattack on Israel was carefully planned, precisely organized and ruthlessly executed by an army of 300. The mission: Unseat Israel as the hummus...

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13 May

2011 January-February, Issues, World

The Film that Launched a Thousand Court Cases

• June 1, 2017
• By Niv Elis
• 0 comments

Few films have packed as much punch for American political culture as Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. With the Cold War shifting into...

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10 May

2013 May-June, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Poem | Erica Jong

• April 26, 2021
• By Erica Jong
• 0 comments

Not With a Bang but With a Whimper (My mother died & the world did not end)   How I wish it were apocalyptically dramatic— the end of the world Armageddon, burning books...

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09 May

2013 May-June, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

Jewish Routes | Washington, DC

• August 23, 2017
• By Moment
• 1 comment

In Celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month Jews have had a major presence in Washington, DC, ever since young land speculator Isaac Polock arrived in 1795...

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