Best of Moment Magazine’s September/October 2008 issue

I thought that the foreign policy crowd would be interested in a few of the articles that appear in Moment’s current issue (the first one I helped edit since being back in Washington):



1.“Does God have a seat on the Supreme Court?” Five Catholics. Two Protestants. Two Jews. What impact does a justice’s faith have on his or her jurisprudence? Legal experts Marci Hamilton, Douglas Kmiec, Abner Mikva, Jamie Raskin, Jeffrey Rosen, Jeffrey Toobin, Laurence Tribe, Eugene Volokh and Wendy Webster Williams to shed some light.

2. “Return to Jewish Kurdistan.” As a kid, American journalist Ariel Sabar was embarrassed by Yona, his Iraqi-born and Israeli-raised father who became a noted expert of Aramaic at UCLA. As an adult, Ariel decided that he and his dad should go to Zakho, Yona’s hometown, during the Iraq war and bond. A fascinating read about the home of a Jewish community that dated back to the destruction of the First Temple and a son’s search to reconnect with his father. Ariel is going to be reading from his book, My Father’s Paradise, at this month's Jewish Literary Festival in Washington, DC.

3. Ms. Magazine's founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin makes the case for why American Jews should vote for Barack Obama, and Forward reporter Nathan Guttman discusses why Israel is not the #1 issue for American Jews.

The whole of the current issue is accessible online and if that is not enough Moment for you, there is also the recently launched blog.