31
Dec
Amy E. Schwartz: World Museums Rethink Islamic Art
The next generation of exhibits builds bridges in ways you might not expect.
31
Dec
Elephant in the Room | How Has Anxiety Affected You, Your Family or the Jewish People?
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Moment
Our second annual Elephant in the Room Essay Contest—in partnership with the Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety—seeks to lessen the stigma surrounding anxiety by...
31
Dec
Jewish Word | Tsuris
Nobody Knows the Tsuris I’ve Seen…
“Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,” laments an African-American spiritual. In Yiddish, this feeling is encapsulated by the word tsuris—variously...
31
Dec
Uncle Xenon: The Elemental Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks opens the door of his lower Manhattan apartment himself because his assistant, Kate Edgar, is in the emergency room with a twisted ankle....
28
Dec
Summer Programs 2014 Guide
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Camp Airy and camp Louise
Situated in the rolling hills of Western Maryland, Camp Airy for boys and Camp Louise for girls provide overnight camping for...
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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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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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...