Amy E. Schwartz is Moment’s opinion and book editor.
The first time I found myself in synagogue for the chanting of the Book of Kohelet, or Ecclesiastes—typically read by Ashkenazi Jews during the Shabbat of Sukkot, the fall harvest festival—my first astonished thought was that I’d wandered into the wrong room, or at least picked up the wrong book. ...
Daniel Klaidman, coauthor of “Find me the Votes”, discusses the violent threats received by Georgia officials following the 2020 election. ...
Generations of Jewish writers have reckoned with the Holocaust: Now there’s a new trauma to contend with. ...
When I started doing interviews for the winter issue’s “Moment Debate” on the question “Should students be disciplined for chanting,
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2023 was one of those years when we really, really needed our books. ...
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. ...