Avoiding Sleep on Shavuot: An Act of Denying Wisdom
“To be a Jew means to struggle with things you don’t understand, and to do them anyway.” Sleep is no different.
B’Ivrit | Desperate for Some Good News, Israelis Cling to Heroic Hostage Rescue Story
How the Israeli media covered the June 8 hostage rescue.
Letter from Berkeley | What Do Campus Encampment Protesters Really Want?
Noah Phillips visits the University of California-Berkeley campus and discovers the limitations of dialogue.
B’Ivrit | The Israeli Press Doesn’t Know What to Do About Biden
Plus: Israelis viewed Eurovision 2024, which took place in Malmo, Sweden, as nothing less than another battlefield.
Opinion | Why I Cannot Celebrate Mother’s Day 2024 in New York City
I have no doubt that the sweaty, swaying kids on campus believed that they had found their Vietnam. Too bad their Vietnam was my 1932 Reichstag elections.
Opinion | Silencing Criticism in the Name of Antisemitism Awareness
Passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act in response to students protesting the war in Gaza is a cynical, or at best naïve move says Professor Omer Bartov.
Opinion | What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Moment’s Israel editor argues that we can’t encourage peace or struggle against evil through the secondary victimization of the dead.
Opinion | At Israeli Seders, Pick Your Pharaoh
This Passover, before or after reading the Haggadah, many Israeli Jews are likely to mention a casual but common Hebrew phrase: “We got past Pharaoh, we will get past this too.”
Jewish Word | Doikayt: The Jewish Left Is Here
Embraced by 1940s Bundists opposed to Zionism, the Yiddish word for “hereness” is being popularized by progressive American Jews.
Beyond Greening: Jewish Responses to Climate Emergency
American Jewish responses to this existential threat include a spate of new books, fresh efforts to organize grassroots Jewish climate activists and increased attention to climate within the Jewish environmental movement.
The Israeli Diaspora Finds A Voice
Moment critic-at-large Carlin Romano reviews the three-part novel series “The Hebrew Teacher” by Maya Arad.
Why You Should Stop Being Angry at RBG
Justice Ginsburg was a mortal like the rest of us; she didn’t have the gift of hindsight.