The (Not-So) Jewish Tao of Howard Wolowitz
The Big Bang Theory, the perennially popular CBS sitcom centered around the social and romantic woes of three exceedingly intelligent physicists and one engineer, is...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The Knesset’s “Year of the Woman”
The Knesset's "Year of the Woman" - A record number of female MKs includes new faces, seasoned activists and rising stars.
Ask the Rabbis | What Are Our Obligations as Jews Toward the animals We Use, Live With or Eat?
What are our obligations as Jews toward the animals we use, live with or eat?
A House Divided
Following the end of apartheid, students living in the dorms of the University of the Free State in South Africa heartily embraced integration. At first it went well, then the students chose to resegregate. What caused social progress to surge forward and then reverse course?
Funnyman Carl Reiner
The legendary Reiner riffs on his best pal Mel Brooks, talks comedy, reveals his favorite TV show and recites his most-loved Yiddish curses.
Genesis Secularized: An Exchange Between Ronald Hendel and Jon Levenson
Genesis Secularized
I’m delighted that Jon Levenson has good things to say about my book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography in Moment's March/April issue. In...
Is The Two State Solution Dead?
Are separate Israeli and Palestinian states still the answer? Moment speaks with peace negotiators, policy makers, activists and a former head of the Mossad. Noam Chomsky, Dani Dayan, Ruth Gavison, Efraim Halevy and others share their views.
Opinion | Aluf Benn
Secular Israel is More Religious Than You Think - The new unity government lacks ultra-Orthodox representatives, but that does not mean that religion is being left out of the conversation.
Opinion | Clifford D. May
The View from the West Bank - Our columnist travels to Ramallah and meets with recently resigned Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and other top officials.
From the Editor
The Jewish people are time-tested “experts” when it comes to prejudice. Over millennia, we have experienced its many manifestations, from subtle to life threatening. Volumes...
The Bond Between Greenberg and Robinson
With the timely release of the new DVD of my film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg upon the heels of the Jackie Robinson...
AIPAC Gets the Rap Genius Treatment
Rap Genius, a website that decodes lyrics from rap songs with nearly Talmudic levels of analysis, has for some time now been the place to...