Amy E. Schwartz is Moment’s opinion and book editor.
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. ...
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? ...