From the Editor | Finding a Balance Between Israel and the Diaspora
The Jewish past and future demand both a homeland and a diaspora, and it is our ongoing responsibility to find a balance between them.
Interview | Max Weinberg, King of the Beat
In a conversation with drummer Max Weinberg, a few things become clear after a beat or two.
From the Editor | First Encounters of a Hateful Kind
Everyone remembers the first time they encountered religious, ethnic or racial hatred.
From the Newsletter | Let’s Make Hanukkah a Time to Remember Great Women
Returning the women of the Hanukkah story to the spotlight.
From the Editor | The Eighth Night: A Time to Remember Great Women
The story of Hanukkah, the annual festival of Maccabean might and miracles, doesn’t talk much about women, although two are occasionally associated with the holiday.
From 2006 | Edward R. Murrow: As Good as His Myth
Years before his broadcasts captivated America, Edward R. Murrow rescued Jewish and anti-Nazi scholars.
From the Newsletter | George Soros is a Holocaust Survivor, Not a Nazi
This convoluted and self serving thinking is a modern twist on a deeply entrenched antisemitic trope: Jews are to blame for their own misfortunes, including the Holocaust.
Lesya Verba Reflects on Her Odessa Murals
The artist, now living in New York, made the murals of Ze’ev Jabotinsky last year in her hometown of Odessa, Ukraine
From the Newsletter | What Is the One Thing Students Should Leave College Knowing?
When I graduated from college, I despaired that I knew so little and had touched so few of the subjects I might have studied had I a tool such as Hermione’s Time-Turner, which of course hadn’t been “invented” yet.
From the Newsletter | Whatever Happens Next, Putin’s Invasion Has Already Changed the World
Ukrainian history is tricky for Jews before and during the Holocaust, marked by antisemitism, mass killings of Jews and Nazi complicity.
From the Newsletter | The State of Holocaust Education in America
Shortly before Elie Wiesel, one of Moment’s two cofounders, died in 2016, I had an appointment to visit him in New York.