Eetta Prince-Gibson: The Trouble with Drafting the Ultra-Orthodox
Conscripting Haredi men hurts women, the military and Israeli democracy
Naomi Ragen: An Orthodox Woman on the Bima
Our columnist leaves her comfort zone and accepts an aliyah for the first time.
Book Review // The Lawgiver
The Greatest Story Ever Retold
The Lawgiver
Herman Wouk
Simon & Schuster
2012, $25.99, pp. 232
The Lawgiver, a new novel by the 97-year-old, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Herman Wouk, is...
Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Citing Climate Change
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has endorsed President Obama’s bid for a second term, saying climate change was the deciding factor. “The devastation that...
Book Review // The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
Pillars of Sand
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
Shlomo Sand
Verso Books
2012, $26.95, pp. 304
Shlomo Sand’s latest critique of Jewish identity...
Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York
The Big (Jewish) Apple
City of Promises:
A History of the Jews of New York
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore
NYU Press
2012, $99.00, pp. 1108 (3 volumes)
Brownsville, where I...
The Bipartisan Tailor
Martin Greenfield, a Jewish tailor who survived Auschwitz and went on to create custom-made suits for presidents, generals and a list of who’s-who in Washington...
Jewish Senator from Maryland Clinches Endorsements
Ben Cardin, the Jewish senator from Maryland, picked up the endorsement of The Baltimore Sun, and polling shows the junior senator is poised to glide...
2012 Emerging Writers
Meet Johanna Adorján and Adam Schwartz,
winners of Moment's annual Emerging
Writer awards celebrating up-and-coming
literary voices.
Fiction winner Adam Schwartz
Adam Schwartz is a senior lecturer of creative writing...
Poem // 3AM Nign
3AM Nign
she sang as if looking through the magnifying glass
lullaby’s every heave,
a thesis on slowing down, peeling –
each note, a pit assessing its fullness
lullaby’s underside,
hymn...
Jewish Politicians Weigh In on the Abortion Debate
Earlier this week, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) reassured Jewish voters in Ohio that women’s abortion rights would remain intact should Mitt Romney win the...
Moment’s Halloween Edition!
A Halloween Sneak Peek
For Halloween, get a special preview of Moment’s November/December issue and read about dybbuks, spirits of the dead that haunt the living....