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Jan
Fiction // A Beggar’s Place
t’s raining again, and Estrella takes her green umbrella with her. Six, seven years ago, when she could afford to
15
Jan
The Spicy Tale of India’s Jewish Cuisine
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Sala Levin
Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace
11
Jan
Post-Racial Rabbis
One of the first things that six-year-old Alysa Stanton noticed when her family moved into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in
31
Dec
Uncle Xenon: The Elemental Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks opens the door of his lower Manhattan apartment himself because his assistant, Kate Edgar, is in the emergency
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Dec
Book Review | Jacob’s Folly
A Bug’s Life 2.0 Rebecca Miller Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2012, $26.00, pp.337 Jacob’s Folly is the fantastically original story
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Nov
How Does Satire Influence Politics?
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Moment
The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference
01
Nov
The Madeleine Effect
Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed. Has foreign policy become women’s work?
01
Nov
Lox: An American Love Story
by Eileen Lavine When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with
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Nov
Fiction // Roots
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Joan Leegant
irschman, unwilling to bend, was refusing to participate. A lifelong agnostic, and proud of it, he’d managed for 82 years
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Nov
Ask the Rabbis // What Makes Someone a “Real” Rabbi?
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INDEPENDENT It is the community more than anything else that makes someone a rabbi. If the community finds a person’s
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Oct
Individual Sponsors
The 2012 Moment Magazine Symposium The Intersection of Humor and Politics Moment Magazine’s third Symposium will be held on Sunday,