Israel has hoped throughout its history to be accepted by its neighbors, no matter how remote the prospect has seemed at times. David Ben-Gurion famously despaired of ever achieving a rapprochement with the Arabs. ...
The astonishing human capacity for thoughtlessness manifests itself in many ways. One is the ease with which we toss out ugly dismissive words such as “moron,” “witch” and “idiot” to describe people we disagree with ...
"Not only do they have a right to critique Israel’s policies, they have a responsibility to do so". ...
We should act with the knowledge that our criticism could be misused and misconstrued ...
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Going back to his early line drawings, you can see that Sendak liked to populate the world with Sendaks. ...
Jed Phillip Cohen's fiction short story is the winner of 2018 Moment Magazine Karma Foundation short fiction competition. ...
Is the movie as good as the book? Often, the answer to this perennial question is a flat “No.” ...
We asked a group of rabbis, scholars, educators, writers, experts and artists to give us their recommendations. This is the first installment of an ongoing project. ...
Moment's Ask The Rabbis asks where the Jewish religion, tradition and text stand on racism ...
Marge Piercy doesn’t live that far off the beaten track—it’s only Cape Cod, after all—but it feels remote, especially in the off-season. The poet, novelist and longtime feminist activist, who’s now 83, has lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, since the 1970s. ...
The term, historically used to describe an adherent to the ideology of white supremacy, is now thrown around so often that it no longer is always clear what it means. That's a dangerous trend. ...