Vol. 34 Nbr. 1, January 2009

Index

• Barack Obama's election heralds a fresh chapter in Jewish and African-American relations, one written by a new generation of leaders.
• A former inmate remembers.
• A loyal reader.
• A realistic dream?
• Haunting images.
• How could you?
• Know your lower east side!(Jon Stewart) (Letter to the editor)
• Liberal Rehash.
• Pious fiction.
• The secular spirit of Judaism.
• What is a Jew in power to do?
• Taming Israel's Jewish extremists.
• Why Bibi Netanyahu is Israel's candidate of "hope".
• Iran: running on empty.
• How's your hisbodedus?
• Dancing a lie in Ashdod.
• New life for lost Jewish music.
• Chabad.
• Conservative.
• Modern Orthodox.
• Reform.
• Sephardi.
• Humanist.
• Independent.
• Reconstructionist.
• Renewal.
• An Orthodox feminist revolutionary: Tova Hartman is the co-founder of Shira Hadasha, an Orthodox synagogue where women can read from the Torah and lead services--in front of men.
• During Visiting Hours.
• Jews and blacks in America: Jews and blacks forged a political alliance in the early 20th century that led to the civil rights movement. This historic bond broke apart in the late 1960s. Barack Obama's election as president has brought us full circle. Moment Magazine looks backs at one hundred years of history, 1909-2009.
• Does Syria matter? For the first time in eight years, peace talks between Israel and Syria are underway. Eight veteran Syria-watchers weigh in on whether a deal is on the horizon.
• The naked truth.
• Elie Wiesel's tumultuous tale.
• Rebbe Nachman's fantastical fables.
• Middle East lessons for Barack Obama.