Can I Get An Amen?
In Numbers 5:22, a priest orders a woman who is accused of adultery to drink water that is mixed with dust from a tabernacle floor....
Leonard Fein // Let My People Go… Where?
Originally Published in Volume 2, Issue 4 (1977)
It was too good to last. The stirring saga of Soviet Jewry—identity rediscovered, tyranny opposed, the world's conscience...
Founder Leibel Fein on Moment’s Origins
The death of Moment founder Leonard “Leibel” Fein last week marked a major loss for the Jewish world. An incisive literary voice and champion of...
Always a "Moment" Ahead of the Curve
One of the great things about Moment is that through its 36-year history, it has documented breaking trends in Jewish life with insight and forward-looking...
On The Origins of Species turns 150
By Sarah Breger
Today’s the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. But 150 years later the relationship between science...
Avigdor Lieberman: Israel's Le Pen
By Jeremy Gillick
Two years ago, Ha'aretz correspondent Lily Galili profiled the right wing Israeli politician and founder of the Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel is our Home")...
College Admissions? Of Buchenwald and Princeton
By Mandy Katz
Some of his Frankfurt gymnasium teachers ended up in Buchenwald, my Tel Aviv correspondent Ernest Stock writes, but he ended up graduating from...
Al Franken Gets Serious
by David Paul Kuhn
Al Franken leans over the scattered papers atop his desk. He puffs out his pasty cheeks. His round brown glasses seem slightly...
More from actor Kirk Douglas about being Jewish
We hope you've all seen our exclusive interview with actor Kirk Douglas in the September/October issue of Moment in which he talks with his rabbi,...