Azaria entered the courtroom with an in-your-face smile, mugging for the cameras, acting more like a superstar than a soldier convicted of manslaughter. His mother was wearing blue and white nail polish, the letters on each nail spelling out “mother’s hero.”
The already fraught relationship between the State of Israel and its Bedouin citizens deteriorated even further with recent deadly altercation in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran.
Andy Zaltzman loves a good pun. Actually, the 42-year-old British Jewish comedian can rarely stop at just one.
Moshe Dor (1932-2016) was a major figure in contemporary Israeli literature. A lyric poet par excellence, his subject was love.
In our September/October issue, we wrote about American whiskey’s little-known Jewish heritage. Now, explore five whiskey recommendations.
Both a man of letters and a true activist, Leonard “Leibel” Fein never lost his abiding passion for serving the Jewish people. As Moment’s co-founder and editor from 1975 to 1989, he used the editor’s column regularly to write about his passions – social justice and ending racism and poverty, Judaism, Israel and the American Jewish community. The columns and essays collected here exemplify the intellect, the humor and the values that characterized his life.
In each of Alan Furst’s 14 novels about spies—not spy novels, he insists there is a difference—characters inevitably end up dining at Brasserie Heininger in Paris. The fictional restaurant, based on the real Brasserie Bofinger, with its opulent marble staircase and shucked oysters, represents the glamour and the joie de vivre of 1930s Paris, a city he calls “the heart of civilization.”
When I started at Moment more than six years ago, I quickly gravitated toward the magazine’s books section. It wasn’t long before every review copy of a new book that arrived at the office landed on my desk.
An Israeli voter is not to be envied. So many parties to choose from, so many promises to be tempted by—the voter knows that most of these are empty promises—and so many post-election scenarios to take into account.
Born in 1953 when Poland was under communist rule,Konstanty Gebert viewed his Jewish lineage as a “biographical accident” until he was 15.
