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26 Feb
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Jewish Ethics: Hillel and Shammai Weigh in on Gun Rights

  • October 14, 2015
  • By author-avatar Ronald Pies
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“A Jew dare not live with absolute certainty, not only because certainty is the hallmark of the fanatic...but also because doubt is good for the...

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, From the Editor, Israel

From the Editor

  • May 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar navid
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One could argue that Israel is the country where non-Orthodox Jews have the least religious freedom: They can’t marry, divorce or convert according to their...

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, Jewish Word, Jewish World, Religion

Jewish Word | Moser

  • July 17, 2024
  • By author-avatar Sala Levin
  • 4 comments
The Jewish Snitch by Sala Levin Earlier this year, Nechemya Weberman, a member of the Hasidic Satmar community in New York, was sentenced to 103 years in...

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, Ask the Rabbis

Ask the Rabbis: In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable?

  • July 25, 2019
  • By author-avatar Amy E. Schwartz
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In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable?

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Book of Genesis: A Biography

  • May 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar Jon D. Levenson
  • 1 comment

Jon D. Levenson reviews Ronald Hendel’s new book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography.

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Retrospective

  • May 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar Morris Dickstein
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Morris Dickstein reviews A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, The Retrospective.

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | FDR and the Jews

  • May 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar Marc Fisher
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Marc Fisher reviews FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman.

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26 Feb
2013 March-April, Book Review

Book Review | jews and words

  • May 31, 2017
  • By author-avatar Stefan Kanfer
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Stefan Kanfer reviews jews and words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger.

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20 Feb
History, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest

The Most Notorious Anti-Jewish Official in American History

  • February 26, 2013
  • By author-avatar Daphna Berman
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  Kaskel’s Chutzpah By Gary Stein   “Your people must leave all the villages,” the government official barked.  “The district must be emptied.  I have an order here!”  With...

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15 Feb
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Blog from Istanbul: Turkey and Israel Should Unite

  • February 15, 2013
  • By author-avatar Daphna Berman
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  The Peoples of Turkey and Israel Should Work Together By Aylin Kocaman Turkey has sheltered Jews since Ottoman times. The Turkish people have a particular culture and...

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15 Feb
2009 July-August, Culture, Issues, Religion

Ask the Rabbis // Are Tattoos and Body Piercings Taboo?

  • June 4, 2013
  • By author-avatar Moment
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Independent The Torah’s proscriptions of tattoos applied to imitating religio-cultic ways of peoples who don’t exist anymore, such as Hittites and Yevusites, and later to any...

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13 Feb
2009 May-June, Food

The Mostly Sweet Tale of Jews and Chocolate

  • February 11, 2021
  • By author-avatar Nonna Gorilovskaya
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Convinced he would encounter Jewish traders on his 1492 journey, Christopher Columbus brought along a Jew as a Hebrew interpreter. Although he met no Jews...

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