The Peoples of Turkey and Israel Should Work Together By Aylin Kocaman Turkey has sheltered Jews since Ottoman times. The Turkish people have a particular culture and conception of religion; Turkish people may go hungry, but they will make sure their neighbors have food. They will watch...
The sister of comic Sarah Siverman was just one of nearly a dozen women who were detained today at the Western Wall for praying while wearing a tallit. Susan Silverman, a Reform rabbi living in Jerusalem, was detained with her teenage daughter, along with Anat Hoffman,...
Pope Benedict the XVI’s decision to step down after just eight years as head of the Church has stunned the Catholic world and left many scrambling to figure out who will replace him. In his announcement today, the Pope cited his age and his declining...
The 120 members of Israel’s 19th Knesset were sworn in today in Jerusalem. Ruth Calderon, who was on the Yesh Atid list, and became a newly minted MK today, composed a prayer in honor of the occasion. Calderon is the founder of Elul, which runs...
Peace talks between the Myanamar government and ethnic rebels from the south of the country kicked off Monday, as fighting between the two sides intensified and pressure grew to end the series of clashes. China, which hosted the peace talks between Burma and leaders of the...
I am a Muslim Turk and I Condemn the Jewish Holocaust By Aylin Kocaman The world watched the slaughter of 6 million Jews during the Second World War. A racist, dictator and lunatic slaughtered them in broad daylight in the name of “the superiority of the Aryan...
MOMENT’S FILM REVIEW: “The Jews and the Longest Kiss in History” By Samuel Warshaw Frederique Cifuentes Morgan, a London-based, Parisian-born filmmaker, in Sudan to make a film about the history of its cinematic industry, was wandering around some familiar haunts in downtown Khartoum one day, when suddenly...
Fans of Dave Barry in Washington D.C. are in for a treat: the Pulitzer-Prize winning political satirist will be at Politics and Prose tomorrow night (Friday) to promote Insane City, his first novel in more than a decade. Barry spoke to Moment Magazine recently about what...
An online petition is demanding that the political science department at Brooklyn College rescind its sponsorship of an anti-Israel divestment event. The campaign has received wide support from Jewish students and local activists, who say the speakers of the event, Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler, are...
The New York Times today reported about a spike in the number of lawsuits that are challenging a provision in President Obama's new health care law, which requires employers to cover birth control in group health plans. The lawsuits, filed by Catholics, evangelicals, and Mennonites,...