religion Archives

19 Aug

American Politics, From the Archive, Jewish World, Opinion, Religion

From the Archives | Don’t Dismiss the Religious Right

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Marshall Breger

August 20, 2025

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The Jewish community must extend to the Religious Right the same tolerance that Jews themselves expect and enjoy in American society. Only when Jews treat the Religious Right with respect can we demand pluralism and tolerance in return.

31 Jul

Ask the Rabbis, Jewish Word, Jewish World, Summer 2024

Ask the Rabbis | How Do We Balance Civility With Disapproval For Others’ Politics?

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Moment

July 31, 2024

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We should learn from our sages.

10 Jul

Opinion, Summer 2024

Opinion | A ‘Mixed’ Marriage, a Lifelong Journey

Posted by

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

July 15, 2024

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Bert and I met on June 9, 1963, fell madly in love, talked incessantly, got engaged in October and married two months later, astonished by our commonalities and delighted by our differences.

A man in the traditional dress of the Haredim prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

28 Mar

Cover Story, Israel, Latest

Israel’s Internal War

Posted by

Naomi Ragen

March 28, 2024

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Hundreds killed, kidnapped, tortured and mutilated. Thousands displaced. An entire country at war, almost every family with someone at the front. And yet, it would...

03 Jan

Highlights, Israel-Hamas War, Latest, Opinion

Opinion | Religious Absolutism: Isaac and Ishmael

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David K. Shipler

January 3, 2024

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Devout militants have gained power among both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslims, making the conflict even more intractable.

A low-lit stone chamber with four small pools used for ritual bathing inside.

10 Oct

Fiction, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction // Berkeh’s Story

Posted by

Leah Lax

August 8, 2024

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This story is the third place winner of the 2000 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize...

20 Jul

Interview, Jewish Science and Health - Moment Magazine, Religion, Summer Issue 2023

Roundtable | Robots Get Religion

Posted by

Amy E. Schwartz

August 11, 2023

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In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination.

26 Dec

Highlights, Latest, The Wisdom Project

Wisdom Project | Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, 89

Posted by

Noah Phillips

December 26, 2022

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"It took me a long time, but I learned how to love people," says Rabbi Arthur Waskow. "I realized I had been not-soft, not-loving. I'd been sharp and smart, maybe even partly wise, but not loving."

Rabbi Nancy Kastan speaks in front of a group advocating for reproductive rights.

06 Dec

Latest, Women

Rabbis in States with Abortion Restrictions Find Hope in Interfaith Work

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Abby Wingfield and Fallon Roth

December 13, 2022

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Jewish leaders in states with trigger bans hope interfaith activism may help them advocate for reproductive health.

07 Nov

2022 November/December, Interview, Opinion

Opinion Interview | Who Gets a Religious Exemption?

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Amy E. Schwartz

November 7, 2022

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The landscape of church-state issues is increasingly fluid, but even so, few people probably expected Yeshiva University (YU), a Modern Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, to ask the Supreme Court to permit it to block recognition of gay student groups on campus.

12 Apr

Spring Issue 2022, Visual Moment

Visual Moment | The Synagogue, a Symbol of Endurance

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Diane M. Bolz

June 21, 2022

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The earliest Jewish tribes, inhabitants of the arid lands of Canaan, Phoenicia and Palestine, developed the first known Jewish prayer space, the tentlike tabernacle.

Dante Heaven, a picture of the afterlife.

21 Feb

Jewish World

From the Archives | The Afterlife is not an Afterthought

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Dennis Prager

February 28, 2022

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One of the many reasons I so respect Judaism is its unique take on the afterlife: While it unambiguously affirms an afterlife, it is preoccupied with this life.