Vol. 43 Nbr. 4, July 2018

Index

• Welcome to Our Summer Books Issue.
• THE CONVERSATION.
• MOMENT AWARDS UPDATE.
• DEADLINES AND EVENTS.
• Remembering Charles Krauthammer.
• Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish?
• In Praise of Tribalism: Thoughts on two eight-year-old converts--and Michael Chabon.
• American Jews Just Don't Get It: Reactions to the embassy move to Jerusalem show how little they understand Israelis.
• Inside the Republican Jewish Coalition: The 2018 midterm elections will test a still-fragile accord with Trump.
• We Must Confront the Orbans of the World: Jews must take the lead in standing up to the Hungarian leader's anti-Semitism.
• SHOULD THE UNITED STATES RESTRICT IMMIGRATION? OPINION: JOEL B. POLLAK: 'If people can't get across, they won't have to be arrested'.
• SHOULD THE UNITED STATES RESTRICT IMMIGRATION? OPINION: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN 'Building a wall is fool's gold'.
• Will the Real 'Fake Jews' Please Stand Up?
• Can a Robot Be Jewish? TELL US WHAT YOU THINK AT MOMENTMAG.COM/RABBIS.
• MARTHA NUSSBAUM: THE PHILOSOPHER QUEEN: Bold and unapologetic, the marathon-running, opera-loving public intellectual has weighed in on everything from aging to the nature of evil. Her goal? To make philosophy useful in our day-to-day lives.
• HE HAD A HAT.
• INSIDE THE IRON DOME: Chanoch Levin spearheaded the development of Israel's famed defensive shield against short-range rockets. For the first time, he shares some of the previously undisclosed details of how a concept more likely to be found in a science fiction thriller became a reality.
• MONSTER PILLOW: MOMENT SHORT FICTION.
• TOVA MIRVIS IN CONVERSATION DANI SHAPIRO: TWO WRITERS, BOTH OF WHOM LEFT THE ORTHODOX FOLD, DISCUSS THE ROLES MEMORY & IMAGINATION PLAY IN BOTH FICTION & MEMOIR.
• THE TOP 5 BOOKS: A MOMENT SUMMER BOOKS FEATURE.
• New Faces of the Yiddish Revival: July/August 2018 Special Section.
• From Opera to Yiddish Standards.
• Talk of the Table: The Search for the Elusive Jewish Cocktail.
• A Tragic Life Lived Truthfully.
• Israel's Unexpected Power Brokers.
• A Woman of Letters--and Mystery.
• Transcending a Poisoned Moment.
• MOMENT CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST.