28
Dec
Book Review | Jacob’s Folly
A Bug's Life 2.0
Rebecca Miller
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2012, $26.00, pp.337
Jacob’s Folly is the fantastically original story of three people whose lives intersect and...
28
Dec
Book Review | Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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By
Allan Nadler
Will the Real Abraham Please Stand Up?
Jon D. Levenson
Princeton University Press
2012, $29.95, pp. 244
The synthetic term “Abrahamic,” habitually used to depict the...
28
Dec
Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
How to Be Black and Jewish
Tudor Parfitt
Harvard University Press
2013, $29.95, pp. 232
Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search for the Lost Ark, was a...
24
Dec
Israel’s First Gay Divorce
Former Israeli MK Uzi Even has made history again after he and his former partner of more than two decades were granted what is being...
24
Dec
Should Jewish Children Sing Christmas Carols?
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By
Moment
On Christmas Eve, take a look back at Moment's 2005 "Ask the Rabbis" - Should Jewish Children Sing Christmas Carols?
(Click on the image to enlarge,...
21
Dec
South African Government Adopts BDS Measures
The African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa and the party of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, has voted in its annual conference to...
20
Dec
Sandy Hook: A Teenager Weighs In
By Benji Satloff
Last Sunday night, I was settled in the couch watching the “game of the year” between the Patriots and the Forty-Niners. Suddenly, the...
20
Dec
Are Settlements an Obstacle to Peace? Survey Looks at Palestinian and Israeli Thoughts on Peace
Just over a quarter of Jewish Israelis think peace with the Palestinians is “possible and likely” in the coming five years, compared to double the...
18
Dec
18
Dec
Sandy Hook and the NRA’s First Jewish Female President
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy, gun control has emerged as a pressing issue on the national agenda—though the NRA...
18
Dec
Shalom and Aloha: Pro-Israel Groups Mourn Passing of Senator
Pro-Israel groups are mourning the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye, the long-time representative from Hawaii who died yesterday at the age of 88.
AIPAC, the pro-Israel...
17
Dec
A Jewish Player Joins the Yankees
After Kevin Youkilis accepted a much-publicized one-year $12 million dollar deal to play third base for the New York Yankees last week, the New York Times...