Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Tovah Feldshuh

Becoming Dr. Ruth with Ruth K. Westheimer and Tovah Feldshuh

Ruth K. Westheimer has led a remarkable life. Long before she became a world-famous sex therapist, she escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport to Switzerland and was a teenage sharpshooter in the Haganah. As a young woman she studied and taught at the university in Paris before making her way ...
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The Conversation

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Asylum City actress and book author with Sarah Breger

Behind the Scenes of Israeli Hit Show “Asylum City” with actress Hani Furstenberg and co-creator Liad Shoham

Asylum City, the critically acclaimed and popular Israeli series starring Israeli-American actress Hani Furstenberg, is set in the underworld of refugees and asylum seekers in Tel Aviv. Based on the bestselling novel by lawyer turned author Liad Shoham, the series follows a young police officer named Anat (played by Furstenberg) ...

Staff Picks: Milan Kundera, ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ and Post-War Germany

What we’re reading—and watching—this week. ...
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Spice Box | Due To Personal Circumcisions

Send your unmarked original newspaper clippings, curiosities and photographs to editor@momentmag.com. ...
Israel and its ties to American Jews

What Should the Role of American Jews Be With Respect to Israel Today?

What, if any, obligations do we have toward Israel? ...
Anita Diamant

The Wonderful World of Anita Diamant. Period!

Anita Diamant’s latest book, Period. End of Sentence, which “explores the cultural roots of menstrual injustice,” goes boldly where no writer has gone before. The New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent is in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz, Moment’s Book and Opinion editor, about misogyny, her books—both ...
A visual of two groups of people split by a gorge, over which hangs a huge needle with a dose of medicine inside of it. On one side of the gorge, a crowd of people performs everyday activities. A sign is planted in the ground that says "DEUT 30:19: CHOOSE LIFE." On the other side, three people seem to be panicked and distressed.

Ask the Rabbis | How Do You Deal With People in Your Community Who Don’t Want to Get Vaccinated?

I don’t. It is not my place to nudge people to get or not to get vaccinated. ...
Oh I Remember the Black Birch playwright Velina Hasu Houston

Oh, I Remember the Black Birch: Play Reading and Talkback with Velina Hasu Houston & Keren M. Goldberg

This program is part of the 2021 Moment Theater Festival. In the Autumn of 1941, 18-year-old Brina Berman, a Jewish Polish young woman from Warsaw, finds herself alone in Kobe, Japan, having traveled halfway across the world following the Nazi invasion of her hometown and murder of her family. Thus ...
filibuster

Moment Debate | Is the Filibuster Good for Democracy?

Democracy entails more than merely majority rule. It implies concern about minority rights. ...

Staff Picks: From ‘Mrs. Maisel’ to ‘Of Mice and Men’

What we’re reading—and watching—this week. ...

Why 1973, 1977, 1989 & 1993 are Critical Years at the end of the 20th Century with Deborah Dash Moore and Robert Siegel

From Watergate, the assassination of Allende in Chile and the Yom Kippur War to the election of Menachem Begin, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the march for Soviet Jewry and the signing of the Oslo Accords, a lot happened in the world in 1973, 1977, 1989 and 1993. Join ...