Summer Programs 2014 Guide
Camp Airy and camp Louise
Situated in the rolling hills of Western Maryland, Camp Airy for boys and Camp Louise for girls provide overnight camping for...
Book Review | Jacob’s Folly
A Bug's Life 2.0
Rebecca Miller
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2012, $26.00, pp.337
Jacob’s Folly is the fantastically original story of three people whose lives intersect and...
Book Review | Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Will the Real Abraham Please Stand Up?
Jon D. Levenson
Princeton University Press
2012, $29.95, pp. 244
The synthetic term “Abrahamic,” habitually used to depict the...
Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
How to Be Black and Jewish
Tudor Parfitt
Harvard University Press
2013, $29.95, pp. 232
Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search for the Lost Ark, was a...
Israel’s First Gay Divorce
Former Israeli MK Uzi Even has made history again after he and his former partner of more than two decades were granted what is being...
Should Jewish Children Sing Christmas Carols?
On Christmas Eve, take a look back at Moment's 2005 "Ask the Rabbis" - Should Jewish Children Sing Christmas Carols?
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South African Government Adopts BDS Measures
The African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa and the party of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, has voted in its annual conference to...
Sandy Hook: A Teenager Weighs In
By Benji Satloff
Last Sunday night, I was settled in the couch watching the “game of the year” between the Patriots and the Forty-Niners. Suddenly, the...
Are Settlements an Obstacle to Peace? Survey Looks at Palestinian and Israeli Thoughts on Peace
Just over a quarter of Jewish Israelis think peace with the Palestinians is “possible and likely” in the coming five years, compared to double the...
Sandy Hook and the NRA’s First Jewish Female President
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy, gun control has emerged as a pressing issue on the national agenda—though the NRA...
Shalom and Aloha: Pro-Israel Groups Mourn Passing of Senator
Pro-Israel groups are mourning the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye, the long-time representative from Hawaii who died yesterday at the age of 88.
AIPAC, the pro-Israel...