Are You There Judy?
The prolific children’s writer Judy Blume has never hesitated to address controversial subjects like religion and sex in her fiction. She talks to Moment about why she favors open and frank discussion.
The prolific children’s writer Judy Blume has never hesitated to address controversial subjects like religion and sex in her fiction. She talks to Moment about why she favors open and frank discussion.
Baseball Chapel Grand Slam I was delighted to read Karin Tanabe’s October/November cover story on baseball and religion, “Is the
Houda Nonoo, the ambassador to the United States from Sunni-ruled Bahrain, is a Jewish woman. She’s a symbol of the tiny island kingdom’s tolerance and multiculturalism at a time when Shiite demonstrators are demanding economic and political reforms.
An array of thinkers answer this taboo question. Among them: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Senator Joe Lieberman, sociologist Robert Putnam, legal theorist Noah Feldman, poet Marcia Falk, mathematician Robert Aumann and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
By Scott Fox Food is perhaps one of the “greyest” aspects of Jewish life today. The Torah instructs us to
The quick-witted Democratic congressman has rocketed to fame by taking on Republicans with gusto. But when it comes to Israel, this hardcore liberal—who is married to a Muslim-American—is a hawk.
Maimonides by Joel L. Kraemer
Even with an anglicized name, the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is quintessentially Jewish. At the forefront of modern political satire, the comedian just may be “the most trusted man in America.”
by Matt Ponak It was a cold wintry day during Hannukah of 2007 when I first met Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein.
A child of Mexico City’s cloistered Jewish community discovers Mexico’s long Jewish history—and his own.
Early Zionists considered this African island as a prospective Jewish homeland. The Nazis wanted to turn it into a large Jewish ghetto. One man searches for Jewish history in a land of fables.
by Steven Philp The Occupy Wall Street movement is populated by the disaffected and anti-religious left–that is, if you ignore