Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish?
Since 2015, Porwancher has spent extensive time researching archives on Hamilton’s life and the possibility that he had a Jewish background. ...
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For Jewish Organizations, the Unique Challenge of #MeToo
In the Jewish communal world, addressing systemic harassment and abuse comes with its own complications....
How the Mossad Recovered a Secret Iranian Archive
In the early morning hours of January 31, 2018, a sigh of relief broke the tension in the situation room at Mossad headquarters in Glilot, north of Tel Aviv. Present in the room were Yossi Cohen, the head of Mossad, as well various Mossad department...
Moment Magazine Stories on Sheldon Adelson, Anti-Semitism are Finalists for Newhouse Mirror Awards
(Washington, DC—June 6, 2018)— Two of the four stories up for this year’s prestigious Mirror Award in the Best Single Story category were produced by Moment Magazine, a small Washington, DC-based independent publication that covers the political, cultural and religious complexities of the Jewish world....
Anti-Semitism Monitor 2018
14:13 25 May
in Jewish World
The Anti-Semitism Monitor reports anti-Semitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis....
Opinion Interview | Gabriela Shalev on The United Nations and Israel
What are the high and low points in Israel’s history with the United Nations? I still remember the night my father woke me up at age six in Tel Aviv and we joined the dancing in the streets. The UN had voted to end the British...
Book Review | A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar Pinsker
Since their origin in the early 1500s in Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world, coffee houses have provided an important social meeting place for people from all walks of life, especially creative, political and business types. ...
Jeremy Corbyn and the Jewdas Seder
The Labor Party leader continues to disappoint and alienate British Jews. ...
The Danger of Polarizing Anti-Semitism
Don’t let this old-new prejudice become a weapon in partisan politics. ...
Unravelling the Words of an Unlikely Villain
In seeking purity, do we risk missing the bigger picture?...