York and the Jews
by Alberta Weinberg
York is described in travel guides as a beautiful medieval city with Roman walls and a magnificent cathedral. My husband, Ken, and I...
Cycling Through Jewish Europe
by Michael Lyon
On an overcast late summer day, we were cycling north of Prague along the Elbe River, on the way to Hamburg, when we...
My Last Soviet Summer
by Maxim D. Shrayer
By summer of 1986, my parents and I had been refuseniks for 8 years. A 19-year-old university student, I took part in...
Aaron David Miller on the Middle East’s “Angry, Dysfunctional” Future
by Wesley G. Pippert
Aaron David Miller, an adviser on the Middle East for six secretaries of state, believes that the next few years in the...
Seeing the Face of Our Neighbor
by Alfred Munzer
This January, I was invited to speak at Scotland’s observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. I was born in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, and over...
Q&A: Glenn Dynner on Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland
By Josh Tapper
The history of Jews in 18th- and 19th-century Poland is often a history of anti-Semitism, of social and economic isolation at the hands...
Food: Our Connection to Torah and Today
Nigel Savage on the Jewish Food Movement
By Lucille Marshall
In the past ten years, the Jewish community experienced an expansion of Jewish farms, Jewish CSA’s, and...
Fiction // The Nothing of History
Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Fiction // July was Reva’s month to fall apart. She slept through the alarm and ignored her husband’s attempts to rouse her. She showered sporadically. She added bourbon to her morning coffee. She stopped answering email, her cell phone, the door. She arrived late to the summer school class she was teaching and dismissed the students early.
Week in Review: Vassar’s “Open Hillel,” Torah Scrolls Discovered in Russia, Sid Caesar and much more!
The Vassar Jewish Union announced this week that it would become an “Open Hillel,” making it the second student group to break with Hillel International’s...
Week in Review: Abe Foxman to Retire, Natalie Portman in Israel, Valentine’s Day and much more!
Jewish passengers on board a Belgian train were asked to get off at Auschwitz and “take a short shower” after fellow travelers reportedly hijacked the...
Postpartum PTSD: My Story of Traumatic Childbirth
My story mimics Rachel’s in so many ways. She struggled with infertility for many years before becoming pregnant. She then gave birth to two sons. She had a traumatic labor and delivery. But, thanks to a leading team of nurses and doctors, and the post-Biblical birthing method of cesarean section, I survived.
Week in Review: Obama’s State of the Union, Scarlett Johansson, Pete Seeger and more!
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama reinforced Israel’s status as a Jewish state and a key ally of the...