Obama's Jewish CIA Director: Anthony Lake?
The New York Times claims Lake can have the job if he wants it. While it's not clear that he does, he's certainly in the...
Is Rahm Emanuel the Jewish LBJ?
Who is Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama’s new Chief of Staff)?
For starters, he’s Jewish. He, his wife Amy, and their three children attend the Anshei Sholom...
Hail, Obama. I guess.
I have been absent from this blog for a few weeks, after a few half-hearted attempts at an entry on rumors about whether Sarah Palin...
McCain's Supporters In Brooklyn
A group of journalism graduate students at Columbia University put together this interesting study of how Brooklyn is politically divided ("Bleeding Red for McCain") on...
More from actor Kirk Douglas about being Jewish
We hope you've all seen our exclusive interview with actor Kirk Douglas in the September/October issue of Moment in which he talks with his rabbi,...
Palestinians Inaugurate National Soccer Stadium
Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics?...
Finding the "Real (Jewish) Americans"
More than 200 professors of Jewish studies have joined to form the latest Jews-for-Obama group, reports The Jewish Daily Forward. But the Republican Jewish Coalition...
Production Time
Hey Inthemoment readers, hope you're enjoying the blog so far. As always, feel free to contact us at Moment by emailing editor@dev.momentmag.com or posting your...
Get Wigged Out Like Palin
A mere day after John McCain named his vice-presidential choice, I hatched a clever plan to dress as Sarah Palin for Halloween. Soon after, though,...
Frum Jewish Mothers for Obama
Could this mom on a playground be Sarah Silverman's angelic twin?
Take it as a counterpoint to Silverman's sassy, obnoxious and, you almost hate to admit,...
Jewish population's up. Quick, hit the panic button….
Ok, time to get your assimilation anxieties sorted out. The numbers of Jews and kinda-sorta Jews and non-Jews married to Jews or who are children...