Amy E. Schwartz is Moment’s opinion and book editor.
This year has been an absolute feast for readers. But with so many great books out there, it can be ...
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institution’s senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chops—the moral authority, if you will—to poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche. ...
"How can Jewish and Israeli students feel safe on campus when it's considered acceptable to justify or even celebrate the death of Jewish children? " ...
Allegra, you’ve described your work as post-ethnic, post-deli Judaism—“Jewish life beyond Roth and Bellow, Woody Allen, and bagels and lox.”
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It’s the season of return—literally. Earlier this week, making plans to schlep the family back to the New York shul
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In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but it’s nothing—at least, as yet—compared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination. ...
When anxieties are rippling through the culture, novelists can’t help picking up the signal. ...
Amy Schwartz on today's Supreme Court decisions and what they portend for affirmative action in America. ...
If ice cream is actually good for you, that’s just the latest of a heap of reasons to eat dairy on the upcoming Shavuot holiday. ...
Israeli's judicial system differs from the U.S.'s in more than just details. Who’s protesting what, who has the upper hand, and what, exactly, is on the table? ...
Though Shalev is gone, he deserves a wider reading in America. ...
Deep-red Indiana isn’t a state you’d ordinarily look to as the leading edge of post-Roe v. Wade abortion politics—but a legal case there called into question whether Reform and Conservative Jewst need to be taken seriously as religious objectors. ...