The Haggadah: A Book of Beloved Imperfections
The Passover Haggadah could hardly be more different from the Torah. A Torah scroll is housed in a synagogue.
Talk of the Table | Rice and Beans for Passover?
Conservative rabbi Amy Levin always makes lentil soup on Passover—but never in her grandmother’s pots.
Poem | Afikomen
I’ve written the soup, the parting of the sea, the savage plagues and the candles
The Yazidis: A Faith Without A Future?
In 2014, ISIS forced them from their homes in Iraq. Many fled the country. The rest remain displaced, afraid to return home.
Jewish Political Voices Project: The New Politics of Anti-Semitism
When we ask voters who or what is to blame for anti-Semitism and how it should be addressed, opinions diverge in surprising ways—and not always along party lines.
Jewish Word | Challah
The word “challah” made its first appearance more than 2,500 years ago.
Spice Box: Good Luck With That
Send your unmarked original newspaper clippings, curiosities and photographs to editor@momentmag.com.
Ask the Rabbis | What Is Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is a culture of commonly held malicious assumptions and attitudes toward Jews and Judaism.
Book Review | When the Ivory Tower Closed Its Gates
Imagine a U.S. law that kept thousands of European Jews and others from obtaining visas to the United States in the 1930s, leaving many of them to deportation and death.
From the Editor | Know Thine Enemies
Last month, more than 100 members of a white nationalist hate group, Patriot Front, marched on the National Mall here in Washington, DC.
Mixed* Marriages
When the couple visits friends and family, liberal Democrat Amy Weiss has a simple admonition for her conservative Republican husband, Lou: “Just don’t be yourself.”
Visual Moment | The Daring Madame D’Ora
Recalling a past that was so different from wartime and its terrors, she wrote: “I was only familiar with one of them, the one perfumed with luxury and flowered with orchids.”