There was the split screen—on one side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a joint session of Congress and calling

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Louisiana just passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in all public school classrooms. Will it stand? ...
To fail to understand why Israel is becoming isolated on the world stage or to reduce the reason to mere antisemitism is willful ignorance. ...
I was nurtured by stories about how the FBI came to our apartment door, and how my parents sheltered a woman on the run. ...
It all feels very important and simultaneously exasperating and hard to navigate. ...
We won first place in Magazine Overall Excellence for our AI issue and for commentary by Amy E. Schwartz. ...
Israelis are alternately depressed, angry, reserved and mourning. For the most part, they don't seem to be able to contemplate the suffering that Gazans face. ...

When I started doing interviews for the winter issue’s “Moment Debate” on the question “Should students be disciplined for chanting,

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Uncertainties and perils may turn 2024 into an existential election for American Jews. ...
"Listening is much more important than speaking." Participants in Moment's Wisdom Project, which highlights stories of those lucky enough to have lived long Jewish lives, share their words of wisdom and pieces of advice as the year comes to an end. ...
It feels as though years of history have happened in 2023, and we’ve needed to “hate and forgive and remember and forget, to arrange and confuse, to eat and digest” with dizzying rapidity. ...

Fifty years ago, the Washington Post declared: “Doctors Rule Homosexuals Not Abnormal.” Today, December 15, marks the anniversary of the

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