Nine Nobel laureates reflect on their favorite classic and contemporary Jewish books “I do not believe that civilization will be
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The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference
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For centuries, political philosophers have thought of democracy as a Greek idea, but it turns out there are a myriad of ways to attribute democratic ideas to the Jewish people. Noah Feldman, Jodi Kantor, Ruth Wisse, Ed Koch, Shlomo Avineri and others weigh in. ...
Interviews by Moment Staff Adin Steinsaltz Jewish peoplehood is always central. It comes before the Jewish nation or the Jewish
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By Moment Staff Let us start by asking: Is there such a creature as a Jewish writer? Jewish mothers gave ...
Amos Oz I’m a secular Jew. I am in dire need of sober political leadership, not of a messiah. But
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A Moment Symposium Click a name to jump to their answer: Aziz Abu Sarah / Eric Alterman / Peter Beinart ...
An array of thinkers answer this taboo question. Among them: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Senator Joe Lieberman, sociologist Robert Putnam, legal theorist Noah Feldman, poet Marcia Falk, mathematician Robert Aumann and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. ...
What does it mean to be Jewish today? What do Jews bring to the world? Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elie Wiesel, Itzhak Perlman, Ruth Wisse, Geraldine Brooks and other thoughtful Jewish Americans tell Moment what they think. ...
Ask Jews what happens after death, and many will respond that the Jewish tradition doesn’t say or doesn’t care. But not so fast. When Moment asked an array of prominent Jewish thinkers, artists, writers and other doers to tell us what they think they’re headed for, the range was extraordinary. ...