06
Mar
Ask The Rabbis // How Do We Balance Civility With Disapproval For Others’ Politics?
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Moment
We should learn from our sages.
06
Mar
Opinion // Why Sodom Was Destroyed
Religious Jews should be first in line to help today’s refugees and strangers.
06
Feb
Remaking the Modern-Day Synagogue
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Ellen Wexler
For Dovi Scheiner, a synagogue is a place for prayer and pilates, for coffee breaks and comedy and film screenings. But perhaps most importantly, it is a living room.
04
Mar
Ask the Rabbis // Proselytizing?
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Should Jews advocate for their religious choices in conversation with Jews who have chosen differently?
04
Mar
Jewish Word // Baal Teshuvah
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Sala Levin
Religious seekers are as old as religion itself. But it wasn’t until mid-20th-century America that there was a full-fledged, organized movement of Jews who moved from less observant to more observant—and a name for them. Behold, the birth of the baal teshuvah.
07
Jan
Symposium // Is There a “Jewish” Way to Parent?
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Jewish parenting has never been simple: The original dysfunctional families are found in the Hebrew Bible. But today parenting is more nuanced and complicated than ever. Moment speaks with a range of Jewish parents and experts to explore what role, if any, Judaism plays in 21st-century parenting.
06
Jan
05
Jan
Opinion // Jews, Guns & Evangelicals
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Sarah Posner
Evangelical Christians who don’t support guns deserve and need our support.
05
Nov
If There Were One Thing You Could Change About The Israeli Rabbinate
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A Moment Symposium // Interviews With Assaf Benmelech, Aaron Leibowitz, Rachel Levmore, Shlomo Riskin, Bambi Sheleg, David Stav, Adin Steinsaltz, Yedidia Stern, Diana Villa, Avi Weiss, Moshe Weiss, Dov Zakheim. Plus a comment by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau
04
Nov
Behind The Headlines // ISIS Recruitment
Warren Richey, a staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor, explored this sophisticated recruitment machine in a recent seven-part series called “ISIS In America.” Moment speaks with Richey about how ISIS reels in Western teens and what can be done.
07
Jan
Ask the Rabbis // Conversion
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How do you decide when a candidate for conversion is ready to become Jewish?
18
Dec
A Cappella Graduates with Honors
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Rachel Gross
by Rachel E. Gross
It was 2006 when Rabbi Sue Silberberg of the Indiana University Hillel got the call. Our nation had an urgent request:...