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28 Mar

All Converts Go To Heaven: The Case of Elizabeth Taylor

February 12, 2021
By Steven Philp
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On April 6, 1959 Time Magazine reported the birth “of the most famous and perhaps most beautiful baby,” a Jewish girl named Elishaba Rachel Taylor....

23 Mar

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Is Gay the New Black?

March 23, 2011
By elisniv
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By Steven Philp Voicing an opinion that is shared among conservative leadership, Reverend Keith Ratliff, Sr.—president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP—complained that the lesbian,...

14 Mar

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There is No Love in Bigotry

March 14, 2011
By elisniv
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By Steven Philp On Sunday, March 6 the Jewish Federation of North America kicked off Tribefest, a three-day event in Las Vegas, NV that billed itself...

11 Mar

Culture, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Ink Plotz: Jewish Women and Confessional Comics

March 11, 2011
By Sala Levin
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by Amanda Walgrove Sure, the Oscars ceremony might feature more Jews than your grandmother's Passover seder, but despite how it might seem, cinema isn't the only...

01 Mar

Culture, Moment Magazine

The Slur That Won’t Go Away

March 1, 2011
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by Kayla Green JAP: The word has lost almost all of its taboo status, becoming something close to a knee-jerk reaction to any Semitic-looking girl wearing...

01 Mar

Culture, Moment Magazine

The Slur That Won't Go Away

March 1, 2011
By Sala Levin
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by Kayla Green JAP: The word has lost almost all of its taboo status, becoming something close to a knee-jerk reaction to any Semitic-looking girl wearing...

17 Feb

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Anti-Semitic Auto-complete?

July 24, 2012
By Symi Rom-Rymer
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By Symi Rom-Rymer Journalist Stéphane Foucart posed an interesting question in a recent article in the French daily paper, Le Monde: what can Google tell us...

15 Feb

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The South Sudanese Are ‘The Jews of Our Time’

October 4, 2012
By elisniv
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By Charles Jacobs The stars in Wanyjok’s sky blazed so bright it seemed as though God himself had switched on the lights in the vast blackness....

14 Feb

Culture, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest

The Combative Pacifism and Poetry of Grace Paley

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
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by Amanda Walgrove Grace Paley was a Jewish pacifist accused of having an Irish temper. Armed with a strong Bronx accent and a stronger rhetorical voice,...

08 Feb

Latest, Religion

For Israel, Tough Choices on Egypt

May 8, 2012
By elisniv
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By Steven Philp On Saturday Israeli President Shimon Peres offered a defense of beleaguered Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, on the grounds that his rule has been...

07 Feb

Culture, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Latest