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26 Feb

2013 March-April, Jewish Word, Jewish World, Religion

Jewish Word | Moser

July 17, 2024
By Sala Levin
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The Jewish Snitch by Sala Levin Earlier this year, Nechemya Weberman, a member of the Hasidic Satmar community in New York, was sentenced to 103 years in...

26 Feb

2013 March-April, Ask the Rabbis

Ask the Rabbis: In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable?

July 25, 2019
By Amy E. Schwartz
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In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable?

26 Feb

2013 March-April, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | The Book of Genesis: A Biography

May 31, 2017
By Jon D. Levenson
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Jon D. Levenson reviews Ronald Hendel’s new book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography.

26 Feb

2013 March-April, Book Review

Book Review | jews and words

May 31, 2017
By Stefan Kanfer
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Stefan Kanfer reviews jews and words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger.

01 Feb

2006 November-December, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

The Price of Being Jewish: An Interview with Judea Pearl

The downward slant of Judea Pearl’s eyes lends a perpetually sorrowful expression to his bearded face. Yet, he is rarely somber during our talk; in...

02 Jan

2013 January-February, Ask the Rabbis, Jewish World

Ask the Rabbis: Does Jewish anxiety have a theological basis?

July 25, 2019
By Amy E. Schwartz
2 comments

INDEPENDENT Anxiety is a universal human malady that strikes when we find ourselves at the crossroads of choice-making, equipped with several hefty wagonloads of relativities and...

28 Dec

2014 January-February, Jewish World

Summer Programs 2014 Guide

May 30, 2017
By Moment
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Camp Airy and camp Louise Situated in the rolling hills of Western Maryland, Camp Airy for boys and Camp Louise for girls provide overnight camping for...

28 Dec

2013 January-February, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine

Book Review | Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

May 30, 2017
By Allan Nadler
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Will the Real Abraham Please Stand Up? Jon D. Levenson Princeton University Press 2012, $29.95, pp. 244 The synthetic term “Abrahamic,” habitually used to depict the...

28 Dec

2013 January-February, Jewish Culture and Traditions - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

May 30, 2017
By Gloria Levitas
19 comments

How to Be Black and Jewish Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press 2013, $29.95, pp. 232 Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search for the Lost Ark, was a...

28 Jul

2012 July-August, Issues, Jewish Word

Jewish Word | The God Gene

Finding Faith in DNA Why do some people believe in God, while others don’t? Is it a person’s choice, the result of upbringing or simply divine...

13 Jul

Culture, Latest, Religion

Shabbat’s Gray Area

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Rebecca Borison Israeli President Shimon Peres recently announced that he has cancelled his trip to London for the Olympics’ opening ceremony. Why? When he discovered...

12 Jul

Culture, Latest, topics

The Kosher Higgs Boson

October 11, 2012
By momentadmin
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by Daniela Enriquez Last week, on the Fourth of July, while most Americans were celebrating their Independence Day, scientists working at CERN (the European Center for...