Ilan Berman’s Iran
by Emily Shwake
The first thing Ilan Berman told the crowd was: “You do not want to read this book.” This introduction was a bit misleading...
Nostra Aetate at 50: Jewish Art, Christian Conscience
This year’s Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference includes an exhibition of the work of Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. A contemporary of Chagall, Szyk was largely forgotten in the decades immediately following WWII, but may now be ideally positioned to serve as bridge for continuing Jewish-Christian dialogue on the Holocaust and beyond.
Q&A: Explaining Israel’s Wave of Violence
Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, on how the violence began and what can be done to quell it.
Amid Refugee Crisis, Jewish Groups Step Up
by Laura Davis and Emily Shwake
Since the original outbreak of fighting in March of 2011, nearly 4 million Syrians have left their country, according to...
Q&A: Israel and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
In this Q&A, Moshe Maoz, professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — an expert on Syria who...
Q&A: Ethiopian-Israeli Holocaust Museum Volunteers
Three young Israelis of Ethiopian descent, part of a volunteer delegation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discuss “Israel at Heart,” a leadership program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) open to Ethiopian Israelis.
When 400 Rabbis Marched on Washington
The sight of 400 Orthodox rabbis marching up Pennsylvania Avenue in their black hats and beards blowing in the wind must have been astonishing to residents of wartime Washington. Also unusual was the date: October 6, 1943, two days before Yom Kippur.
Q&A: Abbas’s UN “Bombshell”
Moment spoke with Nathan Thrall, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, via email about the implications of Abbas’s announcement and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Q&A: Animal Rights Activist and Holocaust Survivor Alex Hershaft
Alex Hershaft’s thesis is a controversial one: that there are undeniable parallels between the Holocaust and the practice of killing animals for food.
New German Film Revisits Groundbreaking Auschwitz Trials
In Labyrinth of Lies, a young lawyer decides to prosecute Nazi soldiers nearly 20 years after the end of World War II. Moment speaks with the film’s director about how the trials changed present-day Germany.
Pope Francis: Good For The Jews?
by Emily Shwake
Pope Francis’s visit to the United States has been met largely with adulation from both Catholic and non-Catholic or even entirely secular spectators....
Book Review // The Cost of Courage
The darkness lurking around the edges of heroism is the underlying and faintly troubling theme of Charles Kaiser’s The Cost of Courage, the story of a French family and the steep price its members paid for their work in the Resistance.