Identity Archives

01 Jan

2015 January-February, Big Questions

Do the Religious Beliefs of Supreme Court Justices Influence Their Decisions?

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Rachel Gross

July 25, 2019

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A Moment Symposium with Robert Barnes / Lyle Denniston / Tony Mauro / Sarah Posner / Leslie C. Griffin / Stephen Wermiel / Marshall Breger / Emily Bazelon / Dahlia Lithwick

19 Nov

2014 January-February, Ask the Rabbis

Ask the Rabbis // Happiness

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Amy E. Schwartz

April 26, 2022

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Should Jews strive to be happy? INDEPENDENT No. Jews should never strive to be happy. Happiness should not be something to strive for. It should be solidly entrenched...

08 Oct

2014 September/October, Big Questions, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

What Makes Us Happy? A Symposium

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Moment

July 25, 2019

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The search for happiness is as old as humanity itself. In Jewish culture, the subject of happiness surfaces in biblical psalms, rabbinic commentary, Talmudic pilpul...

01 Nov

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Opinion: The American Jewish Thought Police on Patrol

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Marshall Breger

June 1, 2017

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A political “big tent” would be better for Washington, DC's Theater J and everyone else. // By Marshall Breger

02 Jul

2013 July-August, Big Questions, Talk of the Table

Is There a Secret Ingredient in the Jewish Relationship with Food?

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Moment

June 21, 2024

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A wide-ranging discussion that includes food makers and thinkers Jami Attenberg, Sue Fishkoff, Ari Hart, Gil Marks, Allan Nadler, Joan Nathan, Yotam Ottolenghi, Mimi Sheraton, Michael Stern, Ruth Reichl, Claudia Roden, Shalva Weil and others.

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2013 March-April, From the Editor, Israel

From the Editor

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navid

May 31, 2017

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One could argue that Israel is the country where non-Orthodox Jews have the least religious freedom: They can’t marry, divorce or convert according to their...

31 Dec

2013 January-February, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Elephant in the Room | How Has Anxiety Affected You, Your Family or the Jewish People?

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Moment

May 30, 2017

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Our second annual Elephant in the Room Essay Contest—in partnership with the Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety—seeks to lessen the stigma surrounding anxiety by...

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2013 January-February, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas

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Gloria Levitas

May 30, 2017

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How to Be Black and Jewish Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press 2013, $29.95, pp. 232 Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search for the Lost Ark, was a...

2006 July-August, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

A Jewish Life

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Susan Fishman Orlins

June 6, 2017

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Talking Jewish With Deborah Tannen It was Thanksgiving 1978 in Berkeley. Some guests brought cranberry sauce, some brought sweet potato pie; Deborah Tannen—who was analyzing conversations...

2012 July-August, Issues, Jewish World

From the Managing Editor

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Sarah Breger

July 4, 2023

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I was nervous when I answered the phone call from Bennett Greenspan, president and CEO of the genetic testing company Family Tree DNA. As part...

2012 January-February, Issues, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Two Bat Mitzvahs, 60 Years Apart

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin

June 1, 2017

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Not long ago, my eldest granddaughter celebrated her bat mitzvah—two months shy of 60 years after I celebrated mine. I was one of the first...

Culture

The Jewish National Pastime

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elisniv

June 27, 2011

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By Aarian Marshall Some people collect stamps, others baseball cards—Neil Keller collects famous Jews. He speaks quickly, with a slight lisp, and with his red polo...