Reclaiming a Symbol of Destruction, Lawful or Not
by Natalie Buchbinder
It's tough to make a horrific event that happened over 70 years ago relevant to young people.
It's the stru...
03
Oct
01
Oct
Sukkahs Yet to Make Appearance in Campaign Videos
The new election-year video making the online rounds features Samuel L. Jackson exhorting less-than-active Obama supporters to "wake th...
01
Oct
French Leader Calls for Kippah Ban
by Natalie Buchbinder
France’s war on religion continued last month, as far-right French politician and leader of the Front National...
28
Sep
The St. Louis, Then and Now
By Sarah Breger
The contentious debate over Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his actions during the Holocaust is ongoing. There are tho...
25
Sep
David Brooks and Robert Siegel Talk “National Shtetl Radio”
National Shtetl Radio? That's the lineage that David Brooks imagined for himself and Robert Siegel--newly discovered by Moment to have ...
25
Sep
Is Tunisian Jewry in Danger?
by Daniela Enriquez
Tunisia is at the edge of a new era. The next few months will be decisive for the future of the country and ...
24
Sep
Recordings of German Soldiers’ Conversations Rediscovered
New research has unearthed conversations among German POWs during World War II--recorded by British intelligence--that reveals the exte...
24
Sep
Religious Restrictions Increase Globally
by Natalie Buchbinder
When you think of religious restriction, what country comes to mind? Visions of the Middle East, North Africa,...
24
Sep
Reborn in Hebrew
by Ori Nir
I have never thought of my father as a revolutionary. But since his death last month, several of his colleagues depicted ...
14
Aug
No One Man Should Have All That Power
by Julia Glauberman
The 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle famously claimed that “the history of the world is but the biography o...