Opinion: Is Tenure Bad for the Jews?
If you ask professors why they need tenure, the first words out of their mouths will undoubtedly be some variation of this phrase: “To guarantee...
From the Archives: My House Shall Be a House Of Prayer For All
By Lynne Schreiber
From Moment Magazine, December 2005
One day last summer, as my friend Katie and I sat beneath an umbrella at a sidewalk café sipping...
Is There Life After Death? Jewish Thinking on the Afterlife
Ask Jews what happens after death, and many will respond that the Jewish tradition doesn’t say or doesn’t care. But not so fast. When Moment asked an array of prominent Jewish thinkers, artists, writers and other doers to tell us what they think they’re headed for, the range was extraordinary.
Hannah Senesh, Golda Meir, and now Kate Bornstein
By Bonnie Rosenbaum
My introduction to Jewish heroes can be traced back to one amazing Barbie doll.
It was 1986, I was in 7th grade, and my...
Governor Perry Wants You to Find Jesus
By Steven Philp
Whether you are Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, if you are passing through the Lone Star State on August 6 you might encounter an...
I Was So Much Older Then
by Sophie Taylor
On music legend Bob Dylan’s birthday, take a look back at his origins withMoment’s “Unauthorized Spiritual Biography” of the singer. Seventy years ago...
Jews Support Both Life and Choice
By Steven Philp
On Friday the House of Representatives passed a measure to suspend $330 million of Title X federal funding for Planned Parenthood on the...
"Ex-Gays": Not Just for Christians
by Steven Philp
This past Saturday, people gathered outside Barnes & Noble in El Paso, TX to protest a book signing by Pastor Tom Brown, a...
Play Hard, Pray Harder
By Gabriel Weinstein
Just two years after leaving the University of Florida facing charges of larceny and theft Auburn University quarterback Cameron Newton was full of...
Bridging the Gender Gap in Prayer – Sort Of
By Lily Hoffman Simon
The patriarchal tradition of Orthodox Judaism is being challenged all over the world. The recent controversy surrounding the ordainment of Sara Hurwitz...
Questioning the Merit of Faith
By Steven Philp
Friday evening, nearly 3,000 people packed themselves in to the Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, Canada to witness former-British Prime Minister Tony Blair and...