31 Mar

2012 May/June, Issues, Opinion, Topics, U.S. Politics

Marshall Breger: U.S. Citizenship: Priceless or Merely Convenient?

• June 4, 2013
• By Marshall Breger
• 0 comments

By Marshall Breger In 2011, Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that U.S. nationals, “homegrown” or otherwise, be stripped of their citizenship if they are “engaging in or...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, International, Israel, Issues, Opinion, Topics

David Hazony: Israel Catches a “Flytilla” with (Serious) Satire

• June 4, 2013
• By David Hazony
• 0 comments

First off, let me be clear that I do not condone Israel’s official use of sarcasm, wit or anything else that could be construed as...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Culture, Issues, Religion

Gershom Gorenberg: An Open Letter to American Rabbis

• June 4, 2013
• By Gershom Gorenberg
• 0 comments

The incident repeats itself with small variations. A rabbi somewhere in America writes to ask if I’ll come speak to his congregation about Israeli politics...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Issues, Opinion, Topics, U.S. Politics, Women

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The War Against Women, Take Two

• June 4, 2013
• By Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• 5 comments

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,...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, From the Editor, Issues, Opinion, Topics

From the Editor

• June 4, 2013
• By Nadine Epstein
• 0 comments

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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Book Review, Issues, Topics

Reviews by young readers of classic children’s books

• June 4, 2013
• By Moment
• 0 comments

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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Arts, Big Questions, Issues

Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Fiction?

• August 6, 2020
• By Moment
• 3 comments

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...

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31 Mar

2012 May/June, Culture, Israel, Israel's Arab Citizens, Issues, Staff Picks, Uncategorized

Double Exposure

• July 7, 2015
• By Justin Sovine
• 0 comments

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...

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30 Mar

Uncategorized

An Iranian-Israeli Love-In?

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 1 comment

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...

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27 Mar

Uncategorized

The AIPAC/J Street Color War

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 4 comments

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...

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27 Mar

Uncategorized

Election 2012: The Jewish Vote

• May 8, 2012
• By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
• 2 comments

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...

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26 Mar

Culture, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Religion

A Scanner Messianically

• May 8, 2012
• By Sala Levin
• 2 comments

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...

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