with Robert Aumann, Theodore Bikel, Leon Fleisher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jerome Groopman, Ruth Gruber, Fanya Heller, Madeleine Kunin, Walter Laqueur,
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I am 22 and pregnant, which means Iâm not a teen statistic, but you can chalk me up to the idiot percentages who think they know what theyâre doing with a condom. When I was a kid, I planned my future around a timeline like the one Iâm in. Then ...
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2015 // Leonard Fein, who passed away in 2014, and Elie Wieselâboth writers deeply concerned about Judaism and Jewsâfounded Moment to be an independent voice in the Jewish American community. ...
HER FAMILY OWNED THE BUILDING. THE NAZIS TOOK IT AWAY. NOW SHE WANTED JUSTICE. ...
On 1979, an Israeli censorship committee chaired by the justice minister deleted five evocative paragraphs from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabinâs memoir: his first-person account of the expulsion of Arab residents from the towns of Lydda and Ramle during Israelâs War of Independence in 1947-49. The description contradicted the heroic official ...
As he lay dying, Saul Bellow, âthe most decorated writer in American history,â slipped back into consciousness, looked up, and asked, âWas I a man or was I a jerk?â Somewhere within that sentence lies Bellowâs greatness as a novelistâhis fabulous sense of wonder and entitlement about himself, coupled with ...
On October 9th, 2014, when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the French writer Patrick Modiano, it seemed to his loving readers as if their long quest on his behalf had finally been fulfilled. Not that this shy and modest man ever considered fame or awards, but that ...
Sodom and Gomorrah are burning, and the people are fleeing. Amidst the chaos, one disobedient refugee makes a fatal mistake. Lotâs wife turns back to gaze upon the ruins of her cityâand meets swift retribution. In an instant, she is turned into a pillar of salt. ...
Why we should keep talking with Jewish campus activists who criticize Israel. By Sarah Posner ...
There is only one right way to support Israel and be Jewish today. By Naomi Ragen ...
Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman to join the Supreme Court, after Sandra Day OâConnor, and the first Jewish woman. ...
by Elli Fischer Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the British military and Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, all played a
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