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Vol. 034 Issue 006 (November 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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FROM THE EDITOR
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Epstein, Nadine
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FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN In this issue, we present the story of a popular university in Kiev, Ukraine, that conducted an anti-Zionism campaign beginning in 2002 and ending in 2007. Among the...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Joan Alpert (“The New Jewish Convert”) is a senior editor at Moment. Nadine Epstein (“The Mysterious Tale of a Ukrainian...”) is Moments editor and publisher. Michael...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS The seeds of opportunity are evident in the attitudes of all three women, and especially in Shams, who actively seeks to nurture her Palestinian identity while working peacefully within the...
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WHY JEWS VOTE LIKE PUERTO RICANS (AND NOT EPISCOPALIANS)
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Alterman, Eric
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OPINION ERIC ALTERMAN Why Jews Vote Like Puerto Ricans (and not Episcopalians) What's fascinating is that nobody makes the argument that we Jews, so famous for being so smart, have figured out...
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THE PASSING OF TWO GIANTS
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Frum, David
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OPINION DAVID FRUM The Passing of Two Giants What a loss to be deprived now of two men, William Satire and Irving Kristol, who championed both America and Israel with such clear-eyed love and...
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AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS RIGHT ON TARGET
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RAGEN, NAOMI
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OPINION NAOMI RAGEN Avigdor Lieberman Is Right on Target Perhaps at long last, the time has come to take a page from the Palestinians' game book. They've been enormously successful in spreading...
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THE STORY OF THE MAN, THE HERB AND THE LION
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Gorenberg, Gershom
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OPINION GERSHOM GORENBERG The Story of the Man, the Herb and the Lion Jewish religious literature is a collection of unresolved arguments. To be fair, the holy texts of every faith contain...
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FINDING PEACE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
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A SPIRITUAL MOMENT Finding Peace in the Eye of the Storm It’s amazing how our lives can suddenly turn upside down in an instant. It was a normal and bright spring morning, just a few days after...
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A MENSCH ISN'T ALWAYS A MENSCH
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JEWISH WORD A Mensch Isn’t Always a Mensch When a presidential candidate uses a Yiddish word, you could say that it has entered the American mainstream. If so, then mensch hit the big-time in 2000...
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DREAMING OF A WHITE HANUKKAH
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FILM WATCH Dreaming of a White Hanukkah Have you ever noticed that American Christmas movies are bursting with Jewish talent? Take 1954’s White Christmas, one of the most beloved films because of...
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WHAT IS A "SELF-HATING JEW"?
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ASK THE RABBIS What is a “Self-Hating Jew”? Independent I regularly encounter three types of so-called self-hating Jews: (1) the Jew whose alienation results from negative experiences in...
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DAVID MILIBAND
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Goldfarb, Michael
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DAVID MILIBAND Does the British foreign secretary, the child of Holocaust survivors and New Labour wonk, have the “icicle in the heart” it takes to become prime minister? Michael Goldfarb DAVID...
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POEM
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Horn, Bernard
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SO THERE IT IS So there it is: the siren. It’s 10 am. The three of us stand up around the table in the small dinette-for some reason we all face the window and the birds are chirping their heads...
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THE NEW JEWISH CONVERT
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THE NEW JEWISH CONVERT A Muslim, a Mormon, a Baptist a Protestant a Chinese American, an African American, a Mexican American and the great-granddaughter of a Nazi officer tell their stories Back...
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A BLACK ORTHODOX JEW AND HIP-HOP ARTIST CREATES RHYMES FROM THE TAMLUD
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A black Orthodox Jew and hip-hop artist creates rhymes from the Talmud My first encounter with anything Jewish was at age seven. I saw a TV commercial that said “Happy Passover from your...
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THE MYSTERIOUS TALE OF A UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY'S ANTI-SEMITIC CRUSADE
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Epstein, Nadine
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THE NEW EASTERN EUROPE the MYSTERIOUS TALE of a UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY’S ANTI-SEMITIC CRUSADE FEATURING THE KKK’S DAVID DUKE, FORMER KGB OPERATIVES, PALESTINIANS AND MANY MORE NADINE EPSTEIN In...
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LEVI
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Rosett, Racelle
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MOMENT MAGAZINE-KARMA FOUNDATION FICTION Levi Racelle Rosett There are 72 disturbing images on the way to my school. Saw I, Saw II, Two and Half Men. There is a billboard for jeans in which no...
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THE HIGHER LEARNING GUIDE
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THE HIGHER LEARNING GUIDE WHETHER YOU ARE a seeker of knowledge and community or a young adult making a career decision to serve the Jewish people, Jewish study offers a significant opportunity for...
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THE GIVING GUIDE
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THE GIVING GUIDE American Friends of Bar-Ilan University (AFBIU) supports Israel’s fastest growing university, with 33,000 students in its academic community. Bar-Ilan University (BIU) produces...
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JEWS & CHINESE FOOD: A LOVE STORY
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TALK OF THE TABLE Jews & Chinese Food: A Love Story Senior Editor Nonna Gorilovskaya interviews food writer Andrew Coe, author of Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United...
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THE JEWISH QUEEN OF BRAZILIAN LETTERS
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Salamon, Julie
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BOOK REVIEWS The Jewish Queen of Brazilian Letters Julie Salamon Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector By Benjamin Moser Oxford University Press 2009, $29.95, pp. 496 “I was...
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DANTE'S POLISH INFERNO
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Tiger, Lionel
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BOOK REVIEWS Dante’s Polish Inferno Lionel Tiger Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp By Christopher R. Browning W.W. Norton & Co. 2009, $27.95, pp. 400 Christopher Browning is...
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THE BOOK GUIDE
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the BOOKguide SAVE THE DELI One Man’s Globetrotting Quest for Pickled Meats, Mile-High Sandwiches,and the Taste of the True Jewish Delicatessen David Sax Join David Sax, a journalist and...
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AMERICA'S FAVORITE ISRAELI SPY RETURNS
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Goldfarb, Ronald
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BOOK REVIEWS America’s Favorite Israeli Spy Returns Ronald Goldfarb The Defector By Daniel Silva Putnam 2009, $26.95, pp. 480 In the international spy thriller genre, the United Kingdom’s...
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INTRIGUING BOOKS OF 2009
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INTRIGUING BOOKS Of 2009 Selected by Moment Contributors Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West Michael A. Ledeen (Truman Talley) Ledeen makes a strong ease that Americans and...
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ON FIRE WITH LOVE AND ECSTASY
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SPEAKING VOLUMES On Fire with Love and Ecstasy Why do I writejewish books, and articles for Jewish newspapers? I never set out to be a parochialist, and I have had some success writing for wider...
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