The Fockers Trinity
The third installment in the popular Fockers franchise comes out just in time for the holidays. Like its predecessors, Little Fockers sets out to have...
The (Chosen) Man of Steel
This summer’s Man of Steel, opening June 14th, marks the return of Krypton’s Last Son to American cinemas. Above all the fanfare, a question remains:...
Fiction // Jerusalem Stone
This story is the first place winner of the 2009 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...
Fiction // Blue
This story is the first place winner of the 2010 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...
What Does Judaism Say About Organ Donation?
Secular Humanism
For Humanistic Jews, there is no greater value than the sanctity of life. We honor the traditional notion of pikuah nefesh, the concept that...
A Moment With Dov Krulwich
By day he’s Dr. Bruce Krulwich, a computer scientist working in Israel’s high-tech industry. The rest of the time he’s Dov Krulwich, literary-religious sleuth, scouring...
Will the Real Shrek Please Stand Up?
Children love Shrek, the sweet green ogre and beloved cartoon character who starred, thanks to DreamWorks, in “his” first flick in 2001. What most don’t...
Talk of the Table | Jewish Fizz: Seltzer, Egg Creams & Cel-Ray
The old joke goes like this: An elderly Jewish man falls on a New York street on a hot summer day; a doctor rushes through...
What Rosh Hodesh Means for Jewish Democracy
The Jewish calendar is structured on lunar activity. Every time there is a new moon, a Hebrew month begins. We read in Exdous that God...
All Is Heaven with Avigdor Lieberman
The young waitress in the Tel Aviv hotel lobby can’t hide her excitement. The most controversial politician in Israel is here, ever impatient and attired...
Spinoza, the Modern-Day Radical
You probably already know that 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was radical for his time—from his notorious excommunication from the Amsterdam Jewish community at age...
Book Q&A: Naomi Schaefer Riley
Naomi Schaefer Riley, a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, is the author most recently of 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage...