Philip Roth: A Writer and His People
Over the course of his remarkable career, Philip Roth received nearly every literary award imaginable. One of these prizes was an honorary doctorate from the...
Staff Picks: Madame Secretary, Modern Midrash and Melanie Phillips
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Poem | Of All the Peoples by Nathan Alterman
When under the gallows our children cried
We did not hear the world’s wrath.
For of all the peoples you selected us
For us you loved and sanctified.
For...
Book Review | A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar Pinsker
Since their origin in the early 1500s in Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world, coffee houses have provided an important social meeting place for people from all walks of life, especially creative, political and business types.
Book Review | Harvey Milk by Lillian Faderman
Last April, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to name the main terminal at San Francisco International Airport after Harvey Milk, the gay rights martyr who was assassinated 40 years ago. The decision further (and literally) cements Milk’s legacy as the best-known LGBT activist in American history.
Book Review | Gateway To The Moon by Mary Morris
Entrada de la Luna, New Mexico, is a small town with a big mystery. Why do its Spanish Catholic families light candles on Friday night? Why doesn’t anyone eat pork? The answers, it turns out, lie half a millennium ago, in 15th-century Spain.
Six New Jewish Movies to Stream on Netflix
If you’re looking for a more recent flick, here are six new Jewish movies available to stream on Netflix—including documentaries, dramas, and a stand-up comedy show.
Talk of the Table | Seven Dishes for Seven Decades
The long tradition of Jewish food, wrote culinary historian Gil Marks, has always been one of “transforming and transferring,” and Israeli food is no exception....
Seven Decades of Israeli Art
To mark the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, Moment asks curators from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Ben-Gurion University to choose outstanding works of art from each decade.
Photo Exhibition | Lest We Forget
On April 10 I attended the opening ceremony for Lest We Forget, a photo exhibition of Holocaust survivors at the Reflecting Pool by the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.
Book Review | Yiddish for Pirates
Narrated by Aaron, a wisecracking 500-year-old African Gray parrot with a penchant for Yiddish puns, the book follows Moishe, a 14-year-old who yearns for adventure after discovering his father’s book of maps.
Superman’s Jewish Roots
Supermans religion has never been explicitly acknowledged, and he is not commonly associated with his Jewish roots.