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Ilan Berman is senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council and a frequent contributor to Moment. Right now,
...A barrage of tragedies have further darkened this already chilly winter season, but there’s one advantage to the short days
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To construct a list of books that made a difference in American Jewish life between 1975 and 2025 is to be reminded that however deeply you ponder what to include, the exercise’s main value is as a conversation-starter. ...
'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore' is a PBS American Masters documentary directed by fellow Deaf actor Shoshannah Stern ...
In Hebrew at least, October 7 fiction has been all but missing in action. ...
Two Israeli columnists wrote two very different takes on Israel for Moment's fall issue. What did each think of the other's? ...
Marshall Breger gave Moment a legacy of thoughtful work mapping out a principled common ground between left and right that now seems almost imaginary. ...
Rebuttals to Bartov's op-ed are flying fast and furious in the Jewish world. Some take higher roads than others. ...
Born in polemic, the meaning of the word ‘diaspora’ has fluctuated. ...
The longtime political journalist discusses the increasingly contentious (even for New York) politics surrounding Jewish voters and Zohran Mamdani. ...
The news from Israel this morning was of yet another narrowly averted crisis, the threatened collapse of the governing coalition over attempts to put teeth in a bill that would compel Haredi participation in the IDF. ...
AJC event organizer describes the aftermath of the attack that claimed the lives of Israeli Embassy staffers Yarón Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim at the Capital Jewish Museum. ...