Analysis | We Need To Talk About Willful Ignorance
To fail to understand why Israel is becoming isolated on the world stage or to reduce the reason to mere antisemitism is willful ignorance.
From the Newsletter | Is the GOP’s Grilling of College Presidents Tantamount to McCarthyism?
I was nurtured by stories about how the FBI came to our apartment door, and how my parents sheltered a woman on the run.
From the Newsletter | A Visit to the GW Protest Encampment
It all feels very important and simultaneously exasperating and hard to navigate.
From the Newsletter | Moment Wins First Place from Religion News Association!
We won first place in Magazine Overall Excellence for our AI issue and for commentary by Amy E. Schwartz.
From the Newsletter | Israel Is Not the Same: Notes From a Recent Trip
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.
From the Newsletter | Is Context Everything?
When I started doing interviews for the winter issue’s “Moment Debate” on the question “Should students be disciplined for chanting, ‘From the river to the...
SNEAK PEEK: 2024 Jewish Political Voices Project
Uncertainties and perils may turn 2024 into an existential election for American Jews.
From the Newsletter | A Wise Person Once Said…What Exactly?
“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.
From the Newsletter | Degrees of Evil—and Joy—in 2023
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.
From the Newsletter | When Psychiatry Made Being Gay OK
Fifty years ago, the Washington Post declared: “Doctors Rule Homosexuals Not Abnormal.”
Today, December 15, marks the anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s board of trustees...
From the Newsletter | Stop Drawing Lines in the Sand
I am always amazed at the power of one assassination or violent act to upend the fragile progress of humanity—in particular the painstaking work of...
Issue Blast | November/December 2023
Those of us who refuse to either be washed out to sea or retreat inland are in a challenging, sometimes heartbreaking position.