Talk of the Table | The Ever Malleable Marzipan
Strolling with my family through the charming streets of the Jewish Quarter in Toledo, Spain, last May felt like embarking on a journey through time.
Joe Biden’s New Full-Time Job
The work doesn’t stop, even on Thanksgiving, for President Biden, who stayed in close communication with Middle Eastern leaders over the holiday concerning the release of hostages from Hamas.
Poetry | Reheat, by David Israel Katz
David Israel Katz writes us into spaces that negate sense, and importantly, negate our impulse to try to locate sense.
Opinion | Breaking the Silence on Hamas’s War Crimes Against Women
The October 7 Hamas attack showed that sex crimes are not absent from the modern battlefield.
Tough Talk at Thanksgiving
The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza means that conversations may be especially fraught around the table this year, for multi-generational families of all types and especially for Jewish families.
Opinion | What This Jew is Learning From This War
We have been reminded of all these things in the most horrible and heartbreaking way possible. October 7 was the most difficult and poisonous chemotherapy, but it has removed the cancer that was destroying us from within.
A Sign of the Times
“Most people don’t think in those terms,” says Goldman; what is more powerful is “a sense that God has chosen the Jews, that God has made promises to the Jews, that those promises still hold and God is still delivering.”
How to Negotiate with Terrorists and Bring Hostages Home with Ory Slonim and Dan Raviv
Join Orly Slonim, a specialist in negotiating for the release of Israeli prisoners and hostages ,for a conversation about the 230+ hostages taken to Gaza and what strategies might win their release. He also discusses the role Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, as well as the United States, may play in the negotiations.
Unprecedented Interest in DC March for Israel
Moment Institute Fellow Nathan Guttman explores the week’s most recent political topics in the Jewish world—cease-fires in Israel, public opinion on the Israel-Gaza war, and historical examples that can help us understand what is happening in the world today.
An Inside Look at What’s Happening in the Palestinian Authority Today: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Ghaith al-Omari and Nadine Epstein
What are the repercussions of the October 7 terrorist attack in Israel and the resulting Israel-Hamas war for the Palestinian Authority? How are PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party dealing with issues from settler violence to pro Hamas demonstrations, and a populace that only gets its news from Al Jazeera and doesn’t know what really happened on October 7? Why do ties between Israeli and Palestinian security forces remain strong? Will the crisis push the dysfunctional PA to reform? How are Palestinians within Israel reacting? And who should oversee Gaza after the war? Join Ghaith al-Omari
The Rise of Antisemitism since October 7th with Ira N. Forman and Sarah Breger
Join Ira N. Forman, former U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism for an important conversation about the current state of antisemitism around the globe since October 7th.
Opinion | The Campus Conundrum
Antisemitism, like Islamophobia—charges of which have been similarly made by Muslim and Arab students on a number of campuses—should be calculated by actual, violent incidents on campuses, not by unverifiable threats, or perceived feelings of being threatened.