20 Mar
Jewish World, Latest

Jewish Objects Project Round-up

“I’m not materialistic, but I believe in the power of things to evoke people, places, days of one’s life.” These words inspired us to launch the Jewish Objects Project, where we asked Moment readers to share photos and stories of things that inspire meaning and memories of their own. Below is a collection of some of our favorites.

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03 Mar
*Ongoing Findings, Israel, Latest

For JPVP Participants, AIPAC Was a Bipartisan Affair

In the weeks leading up to their annual policy conference, AIPAC made headlines with its controversial ad attacking “radical” Democrats and Bernie Sanders’s public boycott of the conference. #BoycottAIPAC trended on Twitter as many on the left defended Sanders’s claim that AIPAC gives voice to “bigotry.” But for Jewish Political Voices Project participants attending the conference, AIPAC is more bipartisan than the public perception. Alma Hernandez, a Democrat from Arizona says that she’s “never been involved with an AIPAC event or project that is advertising or promoting hate or discrimination against anyone. It’s frustrating to see how we were all categorized as bigots.” Ohio Republican Andrew Smith partially attributes the negative perception of AIPAC to Benjamin Netanyahu’s long tenure as Israel’s Prime Minister: “AIPAC tends to support the Israeli government. Because of that, people associate...

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27 Feb
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Beshert | My Great-Aunt and I

I’m named after my great-aunt Lillian, my maternal grandmother’s older sister. She was born in Paris, France, in 1938 and moved to Brooklyn, New York with her parents in 1939. From the pictures I’ve seen and stories I’ve heard, Aunt Lillian was a gem—intelligent, vivacious, and stubbornly determined. When she succumbed to breast cancer in 1979, her death left a void in the lives of her family and loved ones. My grandmother idealizes her; my mother mainly has childhood memories of her, a woman unreachable, frozen in time. And though I never met her, my mother and grandmother often point out our similarities. My grandmother mentions it, often with tears welling up in her eyes, at every graduation and brings it up each time we discuss my writing. “You know, you’re smart just like Lillian. She...

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19 Feb
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Jewish Objects Project

In our Winter 2020 issue, Moment opinion columnist Letty Cottin Pogrebin wrote about the Jewish relationship to stuff: “Jews have a complex relationship with our things. We’re savers; we don’t throw stuff away,” she wrote. When her daughter hired a personal organizing service to help Pogrebin clear her closets of seemingly useless items, Pogrebin struggled to let things go. So much of her “clutter,” holds memories of childhood, times with loved ones and holiday celebrations Pogrebin explains. Her 16 artichoke plates may not seem necessary to keep and may sit idle in her kitchen cabinets, but they remind her of seders she used to host—a memory she is unwilling to let go. Have you held on to that memory candle since your bar/bat mitzvah? Are you still wearing your threadbare Young Judea sweatshirt? Well, you’re not alone!...

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16 Dec
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The Top 19 Most-Read Stories of 2019

While the decade was long, 2019 felt much longer. Climate strikes, impeachment hearings and multiple elections in the U.S., UK, and Israel have dominated the ever-accelerating fast-paced news cycle so that other stories seemed drowned out by all the noise. Take a minute to look back at the articles that shaped 2019 for us and our readers. With topics ranging from Disney princesses to George Soros, Bob Dylan to Yeshiva University, here are Moment’s top 19 most-read stories of 2019.

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