01
Nov
Sarah Posner: If Corporations are people, what’s their religion?
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By
navid
Conservative lawsuits are targeting the Affordable Care Act under the guise of religious freedom
01
Nov
Eetta Prince-Gibson: The Trouble with Drafting the Ultra-Orthodox
Conscripting Haredi men hurts women, the military and Israeli democracy
01
Nov
Naomi Ragen: An Orthodox Woman on the Bima
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By
Naomi Ragen
Our columnist leaves her comfort zone and accepts an aliyah for the first time.
01
Nov
Book Review // The Lawgiver
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By
Daniel Klein
The Greatest Story Ever Retold
The Lawgiver
Herman Wouk
Simon & Schuster
2012, $25.99, pp. 232
The Lawgiver, a new novel by the 97-year-old, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Herman Wouk, is...
01
Nov
Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Citing Climate Change
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has endorsed President Obama’s bid for a second term, saying climate change was the deciding factor. “The devastation that...
01
Nov
Book Review // The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
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By
David Hazony
Pillars of Sand
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
Shlomo Sand
Verso Books
2012, $26.95, pp. 304
Shlomo Sand’s latest critique of Jewish identity...
01
Nov
Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York
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By
Sam Roberts
The Big (Jewish) Apple
City of Promises:
A History of the Jews of New York
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore
NYU Press
2012, $99.00, pp. 1108 (3 volumes)
Brownsville, where I...
01
Nov
The Bipartisan Tailor
Martin Greenfield, a Jewish tailor who survived Auschwitz and went on to create custom-made suits for presidents, generals and a list of who’s-who in Washington...
01
Nov
Jewish Senator from Maryland Clinches Endorsements
Ben Cardin, the Jewish senator from Maryland, picked up the endorsement of The Baltimore Sun, and polling shows the junior senator is poised to glide...
01
Nov
2012 Emerging Writers
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By
Sala Levin
Meet Johanna Adorján and Adam Schwartz,
winners of Moment's annual Emerging
Writer awards celebrating up-and-coming
literary voices.
Fiction winner Adam Schwartz
Adam Schwartz is a senior lecturer of creative writing...
01
Nov
Poem // 3AM Nign
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By
Jake Marmer
3AM Nign
she sang as if looking through the magnifying glass
lullaby’s every heave,
a thesis on slowing down, peeling –
each note, a pit assessing its fullness
lullaby’s underside,
hymn...
31
Oct
Jewish Politicians Weigh In on the Abortion Debate
Earlier this week, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) reassured Jewish voters in Ohio that women’s abortion rights would remain intact should Mitt Romney win the...