Jewish Word | Jews of Color
While “Jews of color” is not an exclusively American term, it was born of this country’s complex interrelationship between race and identity....
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#ChallahConnected : The Sisterhood of Instagram’s Challah Bakers
Challah is in its moment, having unseated sourdough as the baking task of the pandemic. Challah's “moment” has lasted centuries, but now it also helps us place ourselves in time, reminding us that it is Friday, as one unreal day flows into the next. We...
A Wide-Open Conversation with Author and Linguist Deborah Tannen and Political Scientist Norman Ornstein
Deborah Tannen, New York Times bestselling author of You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation and Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discuss Deborah’s just-published book Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest...
Ask the Rabbis | Should Jews Support Reparations for African Americans?
Our team of rabbis weighs in....
Twitter Explained | A Productive Thread About Holocaust Education
"’m sure any proud member of Jewish Twitter felt similarly disheartened when they saw that both 'Holocaust' and 'Anne Frank' were trending before 9 a.m. "...
How Far Have We Fallen if Left-Wing Groups Are Calling to Boycott the ADL?
Moment’s Anti-Semitism Monitor saw something new in August: over 100 left-wing groups in the U.S. made a disturbing call to boycott the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)....
Jewish Guilt: I Am Done Passing It from One Generation to the Next
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As COVID Drags On, Rabbis Work to Adapt High Holiday Services
For the past six weeks, members of Beth Sholom Congregation & Talmud Torah in Potomac, Maryland, have attended services in the parking lot....
The Rabbinical Student Tackling Chicago Gun Violence
What’s the answer to Chicago’s epidemic of gun crime? According to Tamar Manasseh, the subject of the new documentary They Ain’t Ready for Me, which chronicles her fight against gun violence on the south side of Chicago, it’s, “Nobody wants to shoot anybody’s mother.”...
Anti-Semitic Tropes, Abroad and at Home
In July, we documented incidents in 16 different countries to add to the Anti-Semitism Monitor database. However, for the July roundup column, we are focusing on two particular regions of the world and two very different types of anti-Semitism. In Eastern Europe, authoritarian, right-wing leaders...