Recordings of German Soldiers’ Conversations Rediscovered
New research has unearthed conversations among German POWs during World War II--recorded by British intelligence--that reveals the extent to which some German soldiers knew about...
Religious Restrictions Increase Globally
by Natalie Buchbinder
When you think of religious restriction, what country comes to mind? Visions of the Middle East, North Africa, portions of the East? What...
Reborn in Hebrew
by Ori Nir
I have never thought of my father as a revolutionary. But since his death last month, several of his colleagues depicted him as...
Jews at the Emmy awards
“Homeland,” the cable television drama about prisoners of war based on the Israeli series “Hatufim” won the coveted “best drama series” award at the Emmy...
Sarah Silverman is back..
Sarah Silverman is taking on voter ID laws with a new 2012 election video, Let My People Vote.
Her 2008 video, “The Great Schlep,” in which the...
Florida’s Jews
Florida’s Palm Beach County has long been considered a bastion of liberalism, but the now-infamous $50,000-a-plate Romney fundraiser hosted by Jewish private equity titan Marc...
Record Store Blues
Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon
Harper
2012, $27.99, pp. 465
The most perilous pitfall for a tour de force is that the tour can come off as forced.
Alas, Telegraph Avenue,...
The New Normal
Swift acceptance of gays by the Israeli Defense Forces in 1993 helped transform Israel into one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world. Moment looks at the history—and the future—of the gay rights movement in Israel, from the rainbow flag-strewn streets of Tel Aviv to the more traditional enclave of Jerusalem.
Symposium / Is Democracy a Jewish Idea?
For centuries, political philosophers have thought of democracy as a Greek idea, but it turns out there are a myriad of ways to attribute democratic ideas to the Jewish people. Noah Feldman, Jodi Kantor, Ruth Wisse, Ed Koch, Shlomo Avineri and others weigh in.
Decrease in Jewish support for Obama in Florida
Sixty-nine percent of Jewish voters in Florida say they will vote for President Obama in November, down from the 76 percent of the Florida Jewish...
Jesus’ wife?
The Da Vinci Code—which popularized the notion that Jesus was married—is back in the news with the discovery of a fourth century papyrus text written...