David Brooks and Robert Siegel Talk “National Shtetl Radio”
National Shtetl Radio? That's the lineage that David Brooks imagined for himself and Robert Siegel--newly discovered by Moment to have genetic ties that might make...
Debating War With Iran
As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits New York this week for the UN General Assembly, the question of Iran and what the United States and...
A Measured Feast
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
Contemporary poetry on Jewish religious subjects is rare in America outside the pages of specialized Jewish publications. Thus, Peg Duthie’s delightful new collection...
Is Tunisian Jewry in Danger?
by Daniela Enriquez
Tunisia is at the edge of a new era. The next few months will be decisive for the future of the country and...
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,...
