17
Jul
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Harry Potter connects to Jewish audiences. Did you know that Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) are Jewish?
Moment columnist...
14
Jul
A Circus Wedding
Two circus monkeys recently got married, watched by two of their proud monkey parents. Such a scene would usually be reserved for a greeting card,...
10
Jul
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
A new game show puts a rabbi, a priest, a Muslim imam and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists. Let...
04
Jul
In Favor of Franken
After months of wondering and waiting, the Minnesotra Supreme Court decided in favor of Al Franken. To learn more about the funnyman-turned-politician, Check out Moment's...
25
Jun
Watch out for Wolpo
By Jeremy Gillick
The right wing group SOS Israel, led by Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo, leader of Chabad's messianic wing in Israel, has published the first...
25
Jun
Jailhouse Hora
By Michelle Albert
These days, to have a truly memorable bar mitzvah, it has to be somewhere special. Like jail.
According to the New York Times, New...
22
Jun
Buy for Israel
By Michelle Albert
A message currently circulating the Web urges Jews to buy Trader Joe's products in response to the call by Boycott Divestment Campaign, an...
19
Jun
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Woody Allen speaks to NPR about his newest movie, the difference between life and fiction, and what he's like off camera.
While religious...
11
Jun
Update: Holocaust Museum Shooting
By Michelle Albert
Holocaust Museum shooter and white supremacist James W. von Brunn is being charged with the murder of Stephen T. Jones, a museum guard,...
10
Jun
Shooting at the Holocaust Museum
By Michelle Albert
Two people were shot and one wounded in the shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC reports. A guard...
10
Jun
Iran's Velvet Revolution?
By Jeremy Gillick
What will change if Mirhossein Mousavi, a former Iranian Prime Minister, a "moderate," and the primary challenger to reigning Iranian president and rabble-rouser...
08
Jun
A Real Girl
By Michelle Albert
Besides being unique in that she's Jewish, the newest American Girl Doll shares a name with a criminal wanted by the FBI.
Rebecca...