04
Oct
Opinion—Eric Alterman
Has J Street Been Defamed?
Sarah Palin says that Israel’s West Bank settlements “should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is...
04
Oct
Yuri Foreman
In between bouts and mixing it up at his Brooklyn gym, the world junior middleweight champion is studying to be an Orthodox rabbi. The Belarussian-born, Israeli-reared 29-year-old discusses his boxing—and spiritual—journey.
04
Oct
From the Big Bang to Baseball: The Elephant in the Room
-
By
Aaron Chusid
Responses to the Elephant in the Room contest have taken us on quite a trip, from the ballpark to the circus to the birth of the...
03
Oct
Last Week for The Elephant in the Room!
-
By
There's still time to get your essay in for the Elephant in the Room contest; the deadline's October 7th, so be sure to send in your...
30
Sep
Jay Michaelson on the Elephant in the Room: “Belief in God” is not a Jewish Value
-
By
Judaism would be better off without the phrase “belief in God.” First, it is a Christian phrase, not a Jewish one, and it suggests that...
23
Sep
Yury Kanzburg: Reflections on the Invisible
-
By
Sarah Breger
Gennady Mesh, editor of the web magazine “Russian Globe" reviews new works by Yury Kanzburg.
“All of man's toil is for the sake of...
23
Sep
Jane Ziegelman on Food and the American Story
-
By
Sala Levin
97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century....
21
Sep
The Long and Winding Road to Interfaith Dialogue
-
By
by Steven Philp
While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that day in 2001, small groups of...
20
Sep
A Boy Named David
by Symi Rom-Rymer
David, the recently released feature film directed by Joel Fendelman and written by Fendelman and Patrick Daly, sets out to tell one story,...
16
Sep
How has secularism in America changed since 9/11?
-
By
As part of the Elephant in the Room, we asked Dr. Christopher Brittain how the discussion on secularism has changed over the past ten years:
I...
09
Sep
Kosher Hip-Hop
-
By
elisniv
By Adina Rosenthal
There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who takes pride in the positive and...
09
Sep
Moment’s Elephant in the Room Contest
-
By
momentadmin
Entries are coming in for the Elephant in the Room essay contest (https://www.momentmag.com/elephant.html), in which we are asking for answers to the question "What does...