Two years after the dawn of the Arab Spring and six months after Mohamed Morsi was elected president, democracy is still a work in progress in Egypt. Moment’s Daphna Berman talks with Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. What is the origin...
From Brooklyn to Jerusalem to the Greek isles, a new batch of Jewish cookbooks takes you on a whirlwind tour of Jewish gastronomy. The Mile End Cookbook by Noah and Rae Bernamoff Hipster deli: Maybe the two words seem incongruous. But the Bernamoffs of Brooklyn’s Montreal-inspired Mile End...
INDEPENDENT Anxiety is a universal human malady that strikes when we find ourselves at the crossroads of choice-making, equipped with several hefty wagonloads of relativities and barely a handful of absolutes. It was not into the light of clarity that Moses journeyed for his encounter with...
The American Jewish thought police are quick to label sympathy a betrayal of Israel....
The many dangers lurking in the Middle East are likely to spell conflict, not peace....
How can the next Israeli government bridge the growing secular-religious divide? ...
Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Israeli, Gazan: Whose life is least valuable? ...
The next generation of exhibits builds bridges in ways you might not expect....
Our second annual Elephant in the Room Essay Contest—in partnership with the Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety—seeks to lessen the stigma surrounding anxiety by encouraging discussion of this important topic. The winning essays, plus finalists and selected excerpts, appear below. WINNING ESSAY For most of my...
Nobody Knows the Tsuris I’ve Seen… “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,” laments an African-American spiritual. In Yiddish, this feeling is encapsulated by the word tsuris—variously defined as troubles, worries, aggravation, woes, suffering, grief or heartache. In other words, “tsuris is what nudniks have and are...