by Natalie Buchbinder It's tough to make a horrific event that happened over 70 years ago relevant to young people. It's the struggle that Holocaust museums and March of the Living tours to concentration camps have attempted to address. A recent New York Times article profiled young...
The new election-year video making the online rounds features Samuel L. Jackson exhorting less-than-active Obama supporters to "wake the f*** up," and is sponsored by the Jewish Council for Education and Research. Based on the famously suave--and often profane--Jackson's audio book version of Adam Mansbach's...
by Natalie Buchbinder France’s war on religion continued last month, as far-right French politician and leader of the Front National Party Marine Le Pen announced her support for a ban on religious headwear in public. The ban, which Le Pen claims would not restrict the Jewish people...
By Sarah Breger The contentious debate over Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his actions during the Holocaust is ongoing. There are those who argue that FDR was a true friend to the Jews, who led the United States to victory against the Nazis; others say that FDR...
National Shtetl Radio? That's the lineage that David Brooks imagined for himself and Robert Siegel--newly discovered by Moment to have genetic ties that might make them fourth cousins--last week on NPR's "All Things Considered." What kind of shows would NSR air? "All Pogroms Considered," Brooks...
by Daniela Enriquez [caption id="" align="alignright" width="267"] Habib Kazdaghli[/caption] Tunisia is at the edge of a new era. The next few months will be decisive for the future of the country and its inhabitants: Will it be the paragon of the Arab Spring, which it initiated, and...
New research has unearthed conversations among German POWs during World War II--recorded by British intelligence--that reveals the extent to which some German soldiers knew about the slaughter of Jews. In Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, authors Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer detail their findings...
by Natalie Buchbinder When you think of religious restriction, what country comes to mind? Visions of the Middle East, North Africa, portions of the East? What about the United States? Israel? Both saw a rise in their restrictions against religion in a one-year period from August...
by Ori Nir I have never thought of my father as a revolutionary. But since his death last month, several of his colleagues depicted him as such and helped me better appreciate some of his professional accomplishments, which I had not fully appreciated before. Shortly before he...
by Julia Glauberman The 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle famously claimed that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” While many historians have since disagreed, Michael R. Cohen seems to have taken Carlyle’s assertion to heart in his new book, The Birth...