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Vol. 031 Issue 003 (June 1 2006)
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FROM THE EDITOR
Epstein, Nadine
FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN A few weeks ago, Elie Wiesel spoke at a luncheon in honor of Moments renaissance. (For those of you who missed it, two years ago the magazine moved into a new...
CONTRIBUTORS
CONTRIBUTORS Matthew Berger ("The Passion of Mikey Weinstein") is a reporter for Congressional Quarterly. He formerly served as the national political correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic...
OPINION
SHANKS, HERSHEL
OPINION HERSHEL SHANKS A Flip of the Foreskin The ancient way to reverse circumcision I became curious about the nature of ancient Jewish circumcision when I came across the term epispasm. You...
OPINION
SINGER, SUZANNE F.
OPINION SUZANNE F.SINGER Lost in Translation The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Muslim Media "The Jews have come from the tragedy of the Holocaust and forced the world to respect them, with...
OPINION
Fein, Leonard
OPINION LEONARD FEIN Israel's Dirty Darfur "Linen" Israel's incarceration of Darfurian refugees violated Jewish values It was almost as if it's a generation waiting for a cause. At the Save...
OPINION
BRECER, MARSHALL
OPNION MARSHALL BRECER Hold the Invective The Harvard paper's authors are misguided "realists," not anti-Semites Since the early years of the Reagan administration, pro-Israel advocates...
OPINION
KUTTAB, DAOUD
OPINION DAOUD KUTTAB Hoping For the Best Palestinian Christians face the prospect of a Hamas Government While the leaders of the Islamic Hamas movement were deciding on the membership of their...
LETTERS
LETTERS Murrow's Legacy The Need Lives On As vice chairman of the Institute of International Education (HE), where Edward R. Murrow began his career and remained as a trustee throughout his...
TEN SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURES DESIGNED BY JEWISH ARCHITECTS
TEN SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURES DESIGNED BY JEWISH ARCHITECTS 1924 Erich Mendelsohn from Allenstein, in what is now Poland, designed the Einstein Observatory in Potsdam, Germany, intending to validate...
FILM WATCH
FILM WATCH A new feel-good documentary seems to come along every few years to reassure American Jews that the enmity between Israelis and Palestinians hasn't yet reached the point of no return....
THE JEWISH WORD
THE JEWISH WORD The Shiksa Revival She's a Jewish mother's worst nightmare and a Jewish man's Gentile goddess. Shiksa, the Americanized version of the Yiddish shikse, derives from the Hebrew...
JEWISH ENTERPRISE
JEWISH ENTERPRISE The Passion of Mikey Weinstein Michael L. "Mikey" Weinstein clearly remembers the day in 2004 when his son Curtis pulled him aside from an Air Force Academy alumni event,...
ASK THE RABBIS
ASK THE RABBIS How Should We View Unmarried Pregnant Women? Humanistic My first inclination, when faced with this question, was to offer an impatient response, "Why is this question even being...
A JEWISH LIFE
A JEWISH LIFE Ehud Olmert: The Right Man at the Right Time? Ian Black ien I met Ehud Olmert on a cold afternoon last December in London's Four Seasons Hotel, he was smoking a fat Havana...
The Art of Jewish Pushiness
Opincar, Abe
The Art of Jewish Pushiness Abe Opincar My friend Alan, a Jew, a New Yorker and an attorney, once said, "People talk about pushy New Yorkers and people talk about pushy Israelis. Now tell me,...
MOMENT GALLERY
MOMENT GALLERY Approximately 20,000 Ethiopians known as Beta Israel (house of Israel) or Falasha Mura remain in Ethiopia, awaiting entry into Israel, ["hey adhere to modern Orthodox Judaism and...
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
LETTER FROM ISRAEL Living with Closed Eyes The sex trafficking problem that just won't go away We meet Tanya in a café in Talpyot, the industrial district where she lives. She's a pretty blonde...
The Oldest Jewish Profession?
The Oldest Jewish Profession? Genesis tells the story of Tamar, the twice-widowed daughter-in-law of Judah. Desperate not to remain childless, she disguises herself as a harlot and solicits her...
Has AIPAC Grown More Conservative?
Has AIPAC Grown More Conservative? Since the mid '80s, AlPAC's critics have charged that it is too conservative for the largely liberal U.S. Jewish community and for Israel's Labor...
MARKED FOR LIFE
FOR LIFE STORY BY SHAUN RAVIV I PHOTOGRAPHY BY JUSTIN DAWSON When I told my cousin I'd gotten a tattoo, his response was, "You'll want another one soon. The pain is addictive." Hours earlier,...
The New (and Improved) Judas
The New (and Improved) Judas In The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, journalist Herbert Krosney traces the extraordinary l,70Oyear, three-continent Odyssey of the only...
The Dawn of Israel's Nuclear Age
Halperin, Morton
The Dawn of Israel's Nuclear Age Morton Halperin Michael Karpin's new book could not be more timely. As the international community finally focuses on Iran's nuclear program, its attention will...
The Drama of Two Ordinary Lives
Rubin, Merle
The Drama of Two Ordinary Lives Merle Rubin In 1969, novelist and poet Vikram Seth, then a 17-year-old student, left his native Calcutta for London. There, Seth stayed with his great-uncle...
A Moment With Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Moment With Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Author of My Nine Lives Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won the Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary honor, in 1975 for her novel Heat and Dust. A German Jew whose...
SPICE BOX
SPICE BOX Can we decorate it too? SUBMITTED BY MARK FRYDENBERG WALTHAM MASSACHUSETTS Get your spirit lifted & permed SUBMITTED Br FLORENCE BRAMMER MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA Caution. May stain...
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