Jewish Word | Beware the Fires of Moloch
In 2012, days after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, historian Garry Wills wrote an impassioned essay in The New York Review of Books.
Q&A: The Poems in Progress of Linda Pastan, z”l
In February 2022, Moment interviewed Linda Pastan about her poem, “I Hold My Breath,” published in our November/December 2020 issue. To mark her passing, we’re...
ReAwaken America Tour Fuses Trumpism and Christian Nationalism
The tour’s organizer claims that the COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon containing “luciferase,” which Bill Gates created by combining cryptocurrency technology with Jeffrey Epstein’s DNA to create a new species of human.
After Abbas | Interview with Avi Melamed
Avi Melamed is a former Israeli intelligence officer and strategic consultant to some of Israel’s top politicians, such as Teddy Kollek and Ehud Olmert. A...
From the Newsletter | Sniffing Out the Messiah in 2023
2023 promises to be a tumultuous year. Instead of looking for saviors, let’s make it a year of study, justice, and love in our own lives.
Wisdom Project | Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, 89
“It took me a long time, but I learned how to love people,” says Rabbi Arthur Waskow. “I realized I had been not-soft, not-loving. I’d been sharp and smart, maybe even partly wise, but not loving.”
Crime or Crisis: Disentangling Mental Illness and Antisemitic Violence
Three years after the Hanukkah stabbing attack in Monsey, NY, both antisemitic attacks and mental health crises are still on the rise.
What Are Sayanim?
The most dangerous conspiracy theories start with a germ of truth that can make them difficult to identify and condemn.
From the Newsletter | Gun Rights and Judaism
This widespread violence is a national crisis with cultural, political and spiritual dimensions.
Young Ukrainian Artists Respond to the Invasion
Animator Crow Ra and collaborator Remy Slimp on their experience fleeing the war. “The more you know who you are, the stronger your magic is.”
Explainer: Congress’s New Gentile-Led Torah Caucus
The apparent noninvolvement by any Jewish lawmakers raised eyebrows in some sectors of the American Jewish community, but proponents see another tool in the fight against antisemitism.
Jewish Word | Shmita: A Sabbath for the Land—and Ourselves
Flapping proudly in fallow fields, large green and yellow banners in rural Israel proclaim: Kan Shomrim Shmita (“Here We Keep Shmita”).