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Vol. 033 Issue 003 (May 1 2008)
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FROM THE EDITOR
Epstein, Nadine
FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN The hospitality shown to us by this kind and lovely woman is emblematic of the best of Israel, the enfolding of Jews from around the world. How fortunate for North...
CONTRIBUTORS
CONTRIBUTORS Nadine Epstein (“At Home With Amos Oz”) is Moment's editor and executive publisher. Robert S. Greenberger (“The Conversions of Anthony Lake”) is a former reporter for The Wall...
LETTERS
LETTERS Rather than divide Jerusalem (something unacceptable to Jews) or put it under the control of the Israeli government (something unacceptable to Palestinians), the city should become, in...
SHOULD ISRAEL STOP BAKROLLING ALIYAH?
Guttman, Nathan
OPINION NATHAN GUTTMAN Should Israel Stop Bankrolling Aliyah? Israel, with its strong education system, booming economy and relatively high-functioning welfare network, is a good place to live....
(NO) PEACE NOW
London, Joshua
OPINION JOSHUA LONDON (No) Peace Now Until the Palestinians embrace a morally compelling leader who rejects violence, someone who does not belong to a terrorist organization like the PLO, Fatah or...
THE AJC-MS. MAGAZINE DEBACLE
POGREBIN, LETTY COTTIN
OPINION LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN The AJC-Ms. Magazine Debacle As both a founding editor of Ms. and a co-founder of the American Jewish Congress's Commission on Women's Equality, I find myself in the...
1948
A YEAR IN HEADLINES 1948 January 4: Palestine Needs Listed: $283,156,000 Required—In light of the United Nations decision establishing an independent Jewish state in Palestine.. .says Dr. Israel...
AN UN-ORTHODOX CHICK FLICK
FILM WATCH An Un-Orthodox Chick Flick Writer and director Stefan Schaefer has created a new genre with his feature film Arranged-. The “feel-good” Muslim-Ortho-dox Jewish chick flick In a world...
THE AWESOME POWER OF SABABA
JEWISH WORD The Awesome Power of Sababa If you’re visiting Israel soon and want to blend in with the Jewish population there, learning just one word—sababa—will get you surprisingly far. “How are...
ISRAEL'S LANGUAGE WARRIOS
JEWISH ENTERPISE Israel’s Language Warriors The room that houses the museumlike reproduction of Eliezer Ben Yehudah’s 19th century study in the Academy of Hebrew Language is silent as a sanctuary....
HOW DOES ISRAEL HELP JEWS BE JEWS?
ASK THE RABBIS How Does Israel Help Jews be Jews? Sephardi Israel’s existence is undoubtedly a blessing to the Jewish people. The Holy Land was given to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and...
THE CONVERSIONS OF ANTHONY LAKE
GREENBERGER, ROBERT S.
The Conversions OF Anthony Lake How Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor became an Obama-man—and a Jew by Robert S. Greenberger WEARING A GREEN BLAZER, turde-neck sweater and khakis, Anthony...
POEM
Shore, Jane
God’s Breath If God can be said to breath the soul into each living thing, as he did into Adam, then the magician we hired for our daughter’s birthday party was like God. Before performing the...
THE RE-BRANDING ISRAEL
Katz, Mandy
From war planes to women: Why at 60 Israel's image te taking off in new directions by Mandy Katz Opposite image and Gallery art courtesy of the Zionist Archives (zionistarchives.org.il and...
GALLERY
GALLERY “We Shall Win,” says British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Keren Hayesod (United Israel Appeal) welcomes Jabotinsky; The Histradrut, Israel’s workers’ union, declares, “With one hand,...
AT HOME WITH AMOS OZ
Epstein, Nadine
At home with AMOS oz Since 1967, Amos Oz has stood at the edge of the Israeli political wilderness proclaiming his truth: The only choice that exists for Israelis and Palestinians is a two-state...
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF HERZL
Zax, David
“in the idea and aims of Zionism, and in the moral, ethical, economic, and social need for it that had been made even more urgent and important by world events and the tremendous problems created by...
YOU CAN SAVE THE WORLD CONTEST
What can done to prevent Global Warming? You C*-¦ • • • •• As YOU WILL SEE FROM THESE WINNING ESSAYS, the generation of young people now in high school cares passionately, deeply, unreservedly...
THE BOOK GUIDE
the BOOKguide Please order books by using the contact information below, or visit your local or online retailer JEWS AND BASEBALL Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman This important book...
TALES FROM THE DIPLOMATIC TRENCHES
Shiper, David K.
BOOK REVIEWS Tales from the Diplomatic Trenches David K. Shipler The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for AraWsraeli Peace By Aaron David Miller Bantam, New York 2008, $26.00,...
MOMENT BOOK CLUB
MOMENT BOOK CLUB MAYvJUNE 2008 A Tale of Love and Darkness By Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange Harvest Books/Harcourt Press, 2004 Amos Oz weaves two stories in this powerful memoir. One...
A REAL LIFE INDIANA JONES AND THE LOST ARK
Levitas, Gloria
A Real Life Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark Gloria Levitas The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark By Tudor Parfitt Harper One, San...
THE BORN AGAIN HAGGADAH
Segal, Lore
The Born Again Haggadah Lore Segal People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks Viking, New York, 2008, $25.95, pp.384 The protagonist of Geraldine Brooks’s third novel, People of the Book, is the...
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