Ask The Rabbis | What Sins Should We Atone For In Our Use of Social Media?
“Do we gossip? Do we repost stories about friends, family or colleagues that ought not be repeated? Do we believe everything we read?”
The Growing Gap Between Israel And American Jews
Ties between American Jews and Israel, while still strong, are fraying. With the help of rabbis and scholars, historians and journalists, diplomats and activists, Moment explores the forces pulling the Jewish state and the American Jewish community apart—and holding them together…
Ask The Rabbis | Can a Robot Be Jewish?
“Would your Jewish robot be like the Jetsons’ Rosie, who’d make perfect Shabbat challah and your aunt’s amazing latkes?”
The Top 5 Books
We asked experts and aficionados to recommend their top five books on timely and intriguing subjects—from trends in American Judaism to Jewish romance.
Staff Picks: Madame Secretary, Modern Midrash and Melanie Phillips
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Great Love Stories from the Holocaust
It is easy to find love in a beautiful place. But to find love in the shadow of death is most remarkable. And remarkable were the young Jews who, caught in the Holocaust, held onto life in ghettos, forests, transit camps, slave labor camps and death camps.
Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?
The Deep: A Wrinkle In Time
Staff Picks: Medieval Jews in England, National Lampoon and Poland’s B-Day
What we’re reading—and watching—this week
Staff Picks: Weimar Berlin, Jewish Jazz and Ben Gurion’s Rice
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Staff Picks: Lebanon’s First Oscar Nod, Mobula Rays and Gaby Hoffman
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.