For a New Twist on Shavuot, Try this Lox-Bagel-Turned Cheesecake
by Rachel Harkham More than three thousand years ago, as the story goes, the Israelites received the Torah from God
Origins of Mishegas Manual Revealed
by Jay Neugeboren When the American Psychiatric Association’s newly revised 1,000-page “bible of psychiatry,” The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Jewish Routes // Arizona
Defying stereotypes, early Jewish pioneers in Arizona were not just storeowners and bankers, but cowboys, lawmen, ranchers and entertainers. The first known Jewish settler was the German-born Nathan Benjamin Appel, who headed west in 1856 from New York to St. Louis, then followed the Santa Fe Trail to the territory’s new capital, Tucson. Appel went on to lead a colorful life in the Wild West: He married a Catholic woman (there were no Jewish women in the territory), had ten children, and was a sheriff, saloon owner, wagon train leader and merchant. Loyal to his heritage, upon his death in 1901, Appel had a Jewish funeral led by a rabbi.
BOOK REVIEW | BARBARA PROBST SOLOMON
BOOK REVIEW | BARBARA PROBST SOLOMON In Search of Peace at Auschwitz Peter Matthiessen (who died this April at the
Meaning and the Two-State Solution
by Susan Pashman As I set out to see for myself what was happening on Israel’s West Bank, I was
Redeeming Haim Hazaz
by Darren Pinsker When the Israeli writer Haim Hazaz died in 1973, his reputation was so lofty in the world
King David’s Genes
Some prominent Jewish families believe they are descended from Israel’s greatest monarch. Can DNA testing prove what their family trees have long shown?
James Kugel: Professor of Disbelief
When I was a teenager, there was a legend repeated in the Jewish schools of my hometown. If you somehow manage to get into godless Harvard, don’t go. But if, against your rosh yeshiva and rebbe’s advice, you actually go, whatever you do, don’t take biblical scholar James Kugel’s class. If you do, you’ll walk into Introduction to the Bible, see that the professor is wearing a yarmulke and assume the course is kosher. And, the story goes, you’ll walk out a heretic.
Fiction // The Nothing of History
Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Fiction // July was Reva’s month to fall apart. She slept through the alarm and ignored her husband’s attempts to rouse her. She showered sporadically. She added bourbon to her morning coffee. She stopped answering email, her cell phone, the door. She arrived late to the summer school class she was teaching and dismissed the students early.
Opinion | Israel’s Unresolved Democracy Problem
By Marshall Breger How can the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state if Israelis don’t know what that means? In 1958,
Opinion | Do We Still Need an Arbiter of Anti-Semitism?
By Sarah Posner The time has passed when one person can speak for the entire community. When Abraham Foxman, the
Week in Review: High-Tech Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel Boycott Bill Axed and much more!
The New York State Assembly has withdrawn a bill that would cut off funding to colleges and universities that initiate