Good Yontif, Pontiff
The Apostolic Journey of Pope Francis to the U.S. starts hours before Kol Nidre on Tuesday, when he arrives at Joint Base Andrews in the Maryland suburbs. The timing, officials say, could not be avoided.
Moment Mourns The Loss of Rabbi Harold S. White
A note from editor and publisher Nadine Epstein.
Book Review // On the Move
There is a seeming transparency in the prose of On the Move, the late Oliver Sacks’s memoir about leaving home and the divergent, sometimes vagabond, life he made.
Q&A: David Gregory on Finding His Faith
David Gregory talks interfaith marriage, Shabbat martinis, and what’s next.
Q&A: What Is Jewish Terrorism?
Daniel Byman, director of research and a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, on the roots of Jewish terrorism and what can be done to address it.
Obama To Appeal Directly to American Jews on Iran Deal Friday
President Barack Obama on Friday will keynote a live webcast hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America and the member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Wooing American Jews on the Iran Deal: A Timeline
The outreach since April has included a stream of conference calls and meetings.
Julian Bond, 1940-2015
Julian Bond, former chairman of the NAACP and civil rights leader, died Saturday at age 75. In May, Bond appeared at a Moment event held...
European Maccabi Games Come to Berlin
The symbolism of holding an international Jewish sporting event at Berlin’s Olympic Park—built by the National Socialists for the 1936 Olympics, from which Jewish athletes were excluded—was lost on no one.
‘Oriented’ Examines What it Means to be Gay and Palestinian in Israel
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
