09
Sep
Ask The Rabbis // The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
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Moment
Should rabbis talk to their congregants about BDS?
04
Sep
Birthright Denied
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On Monday, September 23, 2013, Juliana Deguis Pierre was mopping the floors of the house of a wealthy family in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo when a journalist from the daily newspaper El Caribe appeared at the door. “They can’t give you your document because your father came from Haiti,” the journalist told her before snapping her photo without permission and abruptly departing.
02
Sep
Honey: How Sweet (and Holy) It Is
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Honey is potent stuff in the Jewish world. Since ancient times, it has been a powerful trope for love, hope and promise, and it is the key ingredient of the iconic honey cake, which retains its High Holiday status to this day.
02
Sep
Visual Moment // History, Demolished
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The world watched in horror earlier this year when videos went viral showing ISIS bulldozing the 3,000-year-old ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud in Iraq—a city so old it is mentioned in Genesis. The militants toppled walls and bas-reliefs, sledgehammered statues and used a bulldozer to overturn and shatter a majestic human-headed, winged bull statue that had long guarded the city’s Nergal Gate...
02
Sep
Jewish Routes // San Francisco
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San Francisco, the gleaming mecca of all things tech, got its big break during another era of innovation: the Gold Rush of the mid-19th century. Before then, several hundred people lived in Yerba Buena, which became San Francisco in 1847, after the territory was seized by the United States during the 1846 Mexican-American War.
02
Sep
From the Editor // September/October 2015
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We live in disquieting times. It seems we make progress in creating a better world, and then some of what we achieve slips away. We overcome prejudice, only to find it has metastasized into new forms. That is the story of anti-Semitism today, and it is also the story of other deeply ingrained prejudices.
02
Sep
Opinion // A Turning Point for Jewish Republicans?
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It will take a lot more than the Iran deal to make American Jews switch parties.
02
Sep
Opinion // An Abuse of Sacred Trust
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What happens when rabbis prey on people’s need for holiness?
06
Aug
A Great Civil Rights Partnership: A Moment Photo Symposium
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A Moment photo symposium in honor of the struggle for racial equality.
03
Aug
European Maccabi Games Come to Berlin
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Anna Isaacs
The symbolism of holding an international Jewish sporting event at Berlin’s Olympic Park—built by the National Socialists for the 1936 Olympics, from which Jewish athletes were excluded—was lost on no one.
28
Jul
Edward Hirsch — Poet Laureate of Grief
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As Hurricane Irene descended on New York City in 2011, acclaimed poet Edward Hirsch received a text message from his only son Gabriel that he would be home in an hour. That was the last time he would hear from him.
22
Jul
Speaking Volumes // Austin Ratner on E.L. Doctorow
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navid
Many writers seem daunted by the autobiographical novel—ashamed to write of themselves, as if that were either self-indulgence or exploitation. And of course with James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a paragon, many do not even dare to try. But Joyce didn’t frighten off E.L. Doctorow, who mined his own Depression-era childhood in New York for the 1986 National Book Award-winning World’s Fair.