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Vol. 034 Issue 004 (July 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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ARTICLE
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Epstein, Nadine
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FROM THE EDITOR NADINE EPSTEIN Society has evolved so that people who share similar ideas and values rarely bump into opinions with which they disagree. As thinking people we need to transcend...
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CONTRIBUTORS
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CONTRIBUTORS Johanna Neuman (above) (“From Ghetto to Glamour”) specializes in writing about people against the sweep of history. Her book Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS It is incomprehensible to understand how a rabbi who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1946 and whose many relatives were killed by Nazis can advocate collective punishment for...
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SHOULD WE SETTLE FOR SETTLEMENTS-OR PEACE?
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Alterman, Eric
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OPINION ERIC ALTERMAN Should We Settle for Settlements—or Peace? No one is preventing the settlers from moving to towns or cities that are legitimately Israeli, and incidentally, not bad places to...
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OBAMA AND NETANYAHU: ON A COLLISION COURSE?
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Morris, Benny
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OPINION BENNY MORRIS Obama and Netanyahu: On a Collision Course? The U.S. and Israel face momentous, awful choices in the coming months. The re-election (or "re-election") as Iran's president of...
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THE JEWISH WAY: KILLING IN GOD'S NAME?
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Gorenberg, Gershom
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OPINION GERSHOM GORENBERG The Jewish Way: Killing in God’s Name? Fundamentalists are frightened by the openness of the modern world, by the autonomy of the individual, by modern insistence on...
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JEWS OF QUESTIONABLE TASTE
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Frum, David
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OPINION DAVID FRUM Jews of Questionable Taste Jews like Olivia Zemmour, Adam Shapiro, Gerald Kaufman, Steven Rose, Tony Judt, Avi Lewis and Barbara Spinelli exploit their identity to enhance the...
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A LESSON IN SEXY AND SEXIST HEBREW SLANG
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JEWISH WORD A Lesson in Sexy and Sexist Hebrew Slang The modern American man, more than ever, eats quiches, emotes and—like President Barack Obama—prefers conversation to confrontation. But the...
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BEFORE LUCY, THERE WAS MOLLY
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FILM WATCH Before Lucy, There Was Molly Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Directed by Aviva Kempner As a child growing up in the ’90s, there were few things I enjoyed more than staying up late glued to...
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A LONE VOICE AGAINST APARTHEID
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HISTORY BOX A Lone Voice Against Apartheid South Africa’s Helen Suzman was known by many names: “a thorn in the flesh,” “a vicious little cat,” “cheeky little Jewish girl” and “Yiddishe Bantu...
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THE BEST OF ISRAELI BLOGS
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JEWISH ENTERPISE The Best of Israeli Blogs Observers of Israel’s blogosphere often complain that the country’s political blogs have yet to shake up its media and political establishments like...
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ARE TATTOOS AND BODY PIERCINGS TABOO?
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ASK THE RABBIS Are Tattoos and Body Piercings Taboo? Independent The Torah’s proscriptions of tattoos applied to imitating religio-cultic ways of peoples who don’t exist anymore, such as Hittites...
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POST-RACIAL RABBIS
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Gillick, Jeremy
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POST-RACIAL RABBIS Alyssa Stanton and other black rabbis enter the American Jewish mainstream Jeremy Gillick One of the first things that six-year-old Alyssa Stanton noticed when her family...
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POEM
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Pollack, Frederick
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THE BLESSING Absurd to think she read my poem or story, heard my song, or watched my video. I was told she could barely sit upright by the end, or see, let alone understand. Yet somehow I...
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FROM GHETTO TO GLAMOUR
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Neuman, Johanna
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from GHETTO to GLAMOUR HOW AMERICAN JEWS TOPPLED PARIS COUTURE AND REDESIGNED THE FASHION INDUSTRY Johanna Neuman Ralph Rueben Lifshitz’s father was a housepainter who longed to be an artist....
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A DARK SIDE OF THE GARMENT INDUSTRY
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The Dark Side of the Garment Industry On March 25,1911, William Gunn Shepherd was walking through Manhattan’s Washington Square when he saw smoke coming from a building on Greene Street. The top...
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NEW YORKER CARTOONMEISTER BOB MANKOFF
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Epstein, Nadine
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A MOMENT WITH New Yorker Cartoonmeister Bob Mankoff When The New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff isn’t thumbing through submissions—trying to choose what’s funny and what’s not (and why)—he’s in...
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ISRAEL: THROUGH A WRITER'S LENS
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TRAVEL Israel: Through a Writer’s Lens Three Israeli authors shed the guise of fiction to tell us about their favorite places in the country they love. HAIFA: URBAN NATURE I moved to Haifa from...
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THE MUSIC GUIDE
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MOMENT MAGAZINE theMUSICguide G A SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION In summer camp we sang a song that ended with the line (translated from Hebrew), “the song doesn’t end, it is just beginning.” We...
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THE GIVING GUIDE
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the GIVINGguide A SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM American Friends of Magen David Adom is celebrating its 69th year as the authorized organization supporting MDA...
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DESIGNING SEA LIFE FROM THE DESERT
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ARTS Designing Sea Life from the Desert It’s no coincidence that Ayala Serfaty’s organic, sea-life-inspired designs spring from a desert country. Serfaty, who works in a Tel Aviv loft, is obsessed...
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JEWISH FIZZ: SELTZER, EGG CREAMS & CEL-RAY
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TALK OF THE TABLE Jewish Fizz: Seltzer, Egg Creams & Cel-Ray The old joke goes like this: An elderly Jewish man falls on a NewYork street on a hot summer day; a doctor rushes through the gathering...
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THE GOOD BOOK: ARBITARY, CRUEL & DOWNRIGHT VINDICTIVE
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Klein, Daniel
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BOOK REVIEWS The Good Book: Arbitrary, Cruel & Downright Vindictive Daniel Klein Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single...
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THE BOOK GUIDE
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MOMENT MAGAZINE the BOOKguide Please order books by using the contact information below, or visit your local or online retailer WE ARE RICH Dori Carter Dori Carter trains her incautious wit on...
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MANHUNT OF THE CENTURY
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Crichton, Kyle
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BOOK REVIEWS Manhunt of the Century Kyle Crichton Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi By Neal Bascomb Houghton Mifflin...
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UNHAPPY IN THEIR OWN WAY
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Klass, Sheila Solomon
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BOOK REVIEWS Unhappy in Their Own Way Sheila Solomon Klass The Believers By Zoe Heller Harper 2009, $25.99, pp. 335 Zoe Heller’s subtle, satirical third novel, The Believers, is a worthy...
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