Go East, Mr. President
by Maddie Ulanow
We’ve passed the first two weeks of November, and the 2012 presidential elections are now just a year away. It seems the campaign...
Israel’s Arab Citizens Series: The Arab Glass Ceiling
The overtrained and underemployed among Israel’s Arabs long for a good job—and equal opportunities. After
decades of economic inequality, Israelis—Jewish and Arab—are working together to crack the glass.
10 Commandments 2.0
These ancient laws, long central to our way of life, have become a divisive symbol. Do they still matter? Or is it time for an upgrade? A range of American thinkers speak up, and be warned—they don’t agree on much. (See related stories on pages 21 and 24.)
The Unlikely Emissary
Houda Nonoo, the ambassador to the United States from Sunni-ruled Bahrain, is a Jewish woman. She’s a symbol of the tiny island kingdom’s tolerance and multiculturalism at a time when Shiite demonstrators are demanding economic and political reforms.
Anti-Muslim Discrimination in Post 9/11 America
Muslims have replaced Jews as targets of discrimination
During the 1940s and 1950s, some Jewish scientists were stripped of their security clearances, causing them to lose...
The Other Rosenbergs
They had the wrong name at the wrong time in the wrong place. Moment investigates discrimination against Jews who worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in the wake of Julius Rosenberg’s arrest.
Is This the Golden Age of Jewish Baseball?
A new generation of high-caliber Jewish major league players—including four All-Stars—takes the field. Plus exclusive profiles of Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Danny Valencia and Kevin Youkilis.
Can There Be Judaism Without Belief In God?
An array of thinkers answer this taboo question. Among them: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Senator Joe Lieberman, sociologist Robert Putnam, legal theorist Noah Feldman, poet Marcia Falk, mathematician Robert Aumann and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
Revered and Reviled: Bernard Lewis
A decade after the September 11th attacks, Moment looks back on the career of the 95-year-old Middle East scholar whose ideas provided the framework for the war in Iraq. Long an outcast in contemporary Middle East Studies departments, he and his followers defend his legacy.