Moment Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, here are some of the best books we read this year.
Tell Us: What’s the Best Book You Read in 2017?
We want to hear from you: What’s the best book you read in 2017?
Contemporary Hanukkah Songs for Your Playlist
Adam Sandler first performed “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live in 1994. Check out this and more modern Hanukkah favorites.
Chefs’ Hanukkah Food (and Wine!) Recommendations
We asked four of our favorite chefs to share their recipes for some fabulous holiday fare—plus an accompanying wine.
What Will Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Mean?
“Let’s be honest about what occurred: This was a political decision.”
Video | Jake Tapper: ‘We May Never Know How Many Women Left Journalism’
Tapper spoke of “men of means and power who not only treated women as prey but in all too many cases robbed these women of their dreams.”
Video | Jake Tapper: ‘This Year the Truth Is Very Uncomfortable’
“As we try to stand up for facts and truth and decency, we in the media need to make sure that we don’t give ammunition to those who are seeking to undermine the credibility of the press,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said Sunday when accepting Moment’s inaugural Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award at the National Press Club.
After 20 Years, Translation of the Zohar Is Finished
When Berkeley professor Daniel Matt was approached to translate the Zohar, he was more than a little hesitant.
Borscht Belt Book Talk and Signing Ticket Giveaway
Sign up for one of our newsletters and be eligible to win two tickets to hear photographer Marisa Scheinfeld discuss her book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland at DC’s National Building Museum on December 21.
Photos | Moment’s 2017 Gala and Awards Dinner
Moment’s 2017 Gala and Awards dinner honored CNN’s Jake Tapper; Peter, Paul & Mary singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow; cookbook author Joan Nathan; and international attorney and photographer Allan Gerson.
Ehud Barak on Iran Agreement: ‘It’s a Bad Deal, But It Is a Done Deal’
“You know when we are talking about surgical operations, we have in mind scalpels. When you talk surgical operations, you seem to think of chisel and ten-pound hammer.”
Yes, American Jews Do Serve
I was first introduced to the anti-Semitic trope that “Jews don’t serve” when I was still on active duty. I was showing a superior the hospital that I worked at, and somehow it came to light that I was a Jew.