Is Rap Jewish?
There's an interesting conversation happening over on one of my favorite websites, the inimitable RapGenius. (Haven't heard of it? Don't worry, the New York Times...
Moment’s Exclusive Interview with Ed Koch
Moment editor Nadine Epstein sat down with Ed Koch at his office, just after the mayor arrived from his morning workout at the gym. Here...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Does Birth Control Trump Israel?
Republicans have made Israel their wedge issue. Democrats should make women's rights theirs.
Amy E. Schwartz: Turkey: Where Doth Erdogan Lead?
Turkish Jews—like everyone else—ponder Islam's growing presence in a secular country.
Marshall Breger: Surprise, Politics and Religion Don’t Mix
Americans are tired of politicians who wear their religion on their sleeves.
R.B. Berntein: The Reinvention of Thomas Jefferson
Did this Founding Father really intend for the U.S. to be a Christian nation?
Debate spotlight: Israel
President Barack Obama is looking to regain momentum against Republican nominee Mitt Romney at tonight’s debate, but a leading expert says that on Israel, at...
David K. Shipler: America Before Religious Freedom
Until the separation of church and state, the colonies were a hotbed of persecution.
Moment readers on Ayn Rand
More than half of Moment readers say Ayn Rand’s ideas have no place in politics today, according to a reader survey.
Rand, the Jewish author and...
Anti-Jihad ads come to Washington
A Christian social justice group is fighting the newest wave of anti-Muslim advertisements with a campaign to raise $25,000 to buy counter-advertisements aboard the D.C....
Bachmann takes on falafel
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is coming under fire for anti-Muslim statements that she never made but were taken seriously by readers of a satire magazine.
In...
The Rise of the Religiously “Unaffiliated”
One in five adults in the United States—and one in three adults under the age of 30—do not identify with any religious tradition, a new...