Last Week for The Elephant in the Room!
There's still time to get your essay in for the Elephant in the Room contest; the deadline's October 7th, so be sure to send in your...
Jay Michaelson on the Elephant in the Room: “Belief in God” is not a Jewish Value
Judaism would be better off without the phrase “belief in God.” First, it is a Christian phrase, not a Jewish one, and it suggests that...
Yury Kanzburg: Reflections on the Invisible
Gennady Mesh, editor of the web magazine “Russian Globe" reviews new works by Yury Kanzburg.
“All of man's toil is for the sake of...
Jane Ziegelman on Food and the American Story
97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman, tells the story of five immigrant families living on Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century....
The Long and Winding Road to Interfaith Dialogue
by Steven Philp
While the media spent the morning of September 11 replaying footage of the terrorist attacks of that day in 2001, small groups of...
A Boy Named David
by Symi Rom-Rymer
David, the recently released feature film directed by Joel Fendelman and written by Fendelman and Patrick Daly, sets out to tell one story,...
How has secularism in America changed since 9/11?
As part of the Elephant in the Room, we asked Dr. Christopher Brittain how the discussion on secularism has changed over the past ten years:
I...
Kosher Hip-Hop
By Adina Rosenthal
There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who takes pride in the positive and...
Moment’s Elephant in the Room Contest
Entries are coming in for the Elephant in the Room essay contest (https://dev.momentmag.com/elephant.html), in which we are asking for answers to the question "What does...
Moment's Elephant in the Room Contest
Entries are coming in for the Elephant in the Room essay contest (https://dev.momentmag.com/elephant.html), in which we are asking for answers to the question "What does...
Six Degrees of Kosher Bacon Contest
It's a behavior every Jewish person has participated, and all of their non-Jewish friends have witnessed. Jewish geography: the game where—without aid of Facebook—Jews who...
The Jew With Two “Beards”
By Steven Philp
To their neighbors they look like every other Orthodox Jewish couple, a man and woman married for five years with two children in...