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Debate spotlight: Israel 16 Oct 2012 | 10:13 pm
President Barack Obama is looking to regain momentum against Republican nominee Mitt Romney at tonight’s debate, but a leading expert says that on Israel, at least, very few differences between the ...
Remembering Arlen Specter 16 Oct 2012 | 01:43 am
by Natalie Buchbinder Former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, died Sunday at age 82 after a battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Specter’s 30-year senate c...
United by Yiddish 16 Oct 2012 | 12:25 am
A new group of students is cropping up as the latest champions of the Yiddish language: Israeli Arabs at Middle Eastern universities. A quarter of Bar Ilan University’s 400 students studying Yiddish a...
Without Sight, Hearing an Operatic Calling 15 Oct 2012 | 10:24 pm
by Natalie Buchbinder If there were one word mezzo-soprano opera singer Laurie Rubin would use to describe her career, it would be “rollercoaster.” “You get a lot of people telling you you’re great, a...
Voting? Don’t stress out! 12 Oct 2012 | 05:48 pm
Voting in a national election causes anxiety and a spike in stress hormones, a new Israeli study has found. Levels of cortisol - a hormone secreted in times of stress to help the body cope with percei...
Sherman vs. Berman 12 Oct 2012 | 01:23 am
by Natalie Buchbinder For voters in California’s newly redrawn 30th district, the election for a congressional representative has turned into a showdown between Jewish Democrats–with a twist. Under Ca...
Moment Wins Religion Newswriter Association Awards 12 Oct 2012 | 12:23 am
Saturday night I got to shepp a little nachas when Moment swept the Religion Newswriters Association awards ceremony, winning first place for Overall Excellence as well as three other honors. In addit...
Jewish Bahrainian ambassador to speak tonight 11 Oct 2012 | 10:43 pm
Houda Ezra Nonoo, Ambassador of Bahrain to the US, and the first Jewish ambassador posted abroad by an Arab country, is scheduled to headline the annual conference of the Association for the Study of ...
Moment readers on Ayn Rand 11 Oct 2012 | 08:37 pm
More than half of Moment readers say Ayn Rand’s ideas have no place in politics today, according to a reader survey. Rand, the Jewish author and philosopher born Alisa Rosenbaum, is said to have inf...
