Prime Minister Viktor Orban
03 Sep
2014 September/October, World

Hungary at the Turning Point

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It’s a few days before the May 25 European Parliament elections, and the streets of Budapest are awash with colorful campaign posters urging Hungarians to vote for delegates to represent their country in Brussels. It would be a shining display of democracy in action, a comforting reminder of Hungary’s ten-year membership in the European Union after decades of repressive communist rule, if not for the fact that...
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Mark Post and a Burger
03 Sep
2014 September/October, Food, Food & Recipes, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Talk of the Table

Test-Tube Burgers: Holy Cow?

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In Genesis, God granted humans dominion over animals. In modern times, that dominion has spawned one of the planet’s biggest threats: a livestock industry that spews greenhouse gases, guzzles resources and renders the lives of billions of animals brutish and short. Last August, vexed by the problem, a Dutch physiologist named Mark Post came up with a solution: a burger no cow had to die for. He called it the “test-tube burger.”
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02 Sep
2014 September/October, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Visual Moment

Visual Moment // Pink Phones, Midcentury Modernism & More

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Did you ever wonder about the origin of the distinctive round thermostat that regulates the temperature in your home? Or how about the pink Princess phone every teenage girl once coveted or those eye-catching images that promoted such films as The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder or Exodus? All these items, it turns out, are evidence of the vital role that Jewish architects, designers and patrons played in the development and dissemination of modernism in America.
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Max Steinberg Funeral
02 Sep
2014 September/October, Israel, Jewish World

Opinion // Max Steinberg: A Real American Hero

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Not so long ago, American Jewish children learned from their parents to love the State of Israel. Even secular, assimilated American Jews gave their kids charity boxes to collect nickels and dimes to plant trees there, as the parents do in Woody Allen’s 1987 film Radio Days. But that was a time when Jews remembered the tragedy of the ship St. Louis, with its hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazis and not a single country willing to take them in.
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Rachel Fraenkel Press Conference
02 Sep
2014 September/October, Israel

Opinion // Israel: “Close to Perfect”

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Rachel Fraenkel, mother of Naftali Fraenkel, one of the three Israeli teens whose kidnapping and murder started the current crisis, recently gave her first lengthy interview to Yediot Daily. It was clear that she is an impressive woman, wise, calm and sober, and that her tragedy has catapulted her into a yet-to-be-defined leadership position. But what people all around me are still talking about is the way this interview ended.
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