The constriction of the Jewish vocabulary is nowhere more apparent than in the status of mazal tov as the sole surviving congratulatory phrase of Jewish interchange. ...
And who is Jacob Schiff that he should be embarrassed by my Uncle Ben Daynovsky? ...
As part of Moment’s 50th anniversary coverage, we’re republishing content from the first issue, May/June 1975. This piece features on exchange of letters
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The more things change, the more Jews remain the same; while the more Jews change, the more things remain the same. ...
His statement had caused so much consternation in the Jewish community, the statement whose central aspect dealt with Arafat's "moderation." ...
Kastnerr, first of all, was the only child of an inflexibly Orthodox German rabbi who kicked his son out of his house when he first discovered him studying the forbidden wisdom of the Greeks. ...
Apparently, the relatively limited coverage of the Catalog has in no way impeded sales; while it has all the trappings of a media event, the Catalog has been consistently overlooked or at best underplayed by the press, and has achieved its popularity by appealing directly to consumers in their local ...
Thus, coming late into feminism, Jewish women were advantaged by the fact that many Jewish men had already achieved a raised consciousness, had returned to a Jewish ethnic base and had become interested in the spiritual side of life, even insofar as they might be willing to alter a form ...
The fifth war: if it comes, will it be simply another round in the long duel between Arab and Jew fought over the old battlefields and for the old objectives, or will it be Armageddon, a confrontation between the superpowers that could set the world alight? No one, naturally, can ...
"Moment is, above all else, an invitation: an invitation to take Jewish possibilities seriously (but not soberly); an invitation to inquiry, to learning, to literature, to Jewish life richly conceived." ...
In those days and nights of destiny, the solitude of the Jewish people was matched only by God's... We let them suffer alone, fight alone. And yet, and yet. They did not die alone—not quite— for something of all of us died with them. ...
From 1975 | The New Jewish Right