31
Mar
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The War Against Women, Take Two
By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In 1959, when I was 19, there was no birth control pill, doctors did not prescribe diaphragms or IUDs for unmarried women,...
31
Mar
From the Editor
By Nadine Epstein
Hannah Brown of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, loves Moment but has a complaint: Too few women are included in Moment symposiums such as the one in...
31
Mar
Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books
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The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
The Book Thief is a beautiful but haunting story about a young girl living in Nazi Germany. I first read it several...
31
Mar
Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction?
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By Moment Staff
Let us start by asking: Is there such a creature as a Jewish writer? Jewish mothers gave birth to Saul Bellow and Bernard...
31
Mar
Double Exposure
By Yoav Stern
A Moment Magazine Special Series Israel's Arab Citizens
Israel’s Arab citizens consume both Arabic and Hebrew newspapers, radio and television. But when it comes...
30
Mar
An Iranian-Israeli Love-In?
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Sala Levin
by Kelley Kidd
Recently, Facebook has been bombarding me. Not with its usual memes and Spotify updates, but with a slew of politically oriented statuses and...
27
Mar
The AIPAC/J Street Color War
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by Charles Kopel
A new spring ritual has taken form for American Jews concerned with Israel activism. The AIPAC Policy Conference, a mainstay in the American...
27
Mar
Election 2012: The Jewish Vote
By Monika Wysocki
For the past two decades, Jews have been a strong Democratic constituency; the party has consistently been able to rely on at least...
26
Mar
A Scanner Messianically
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R. Justin Stewart may not be the first artist you’d expect to be behind a work called “Distorting (a messiah project, 13c).” The self-described atheist...
26
Mar
Murder is the Message
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By Martin Berman-Gorvine
It started before the bodies were even cold, long before they could be returned to the earth. There was barely time for seven-year-old...
23
Mar
Jews Do the Darndest Things (On Passover)
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Congratulations to the winners of our Passover giveaway, each of whom will win a copy of New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and...
22
Mar
Changed from Darth Vaderberg at Ellis Island
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Breaking news in "people you didn't know were Jewish": Darth Vader. Yes, some Lucasphiles say that Darth Vader's chestplate (right), revealed in The Empire Strikes...