When three teenage Maccabi Haifa soccer fans hear that their team’s upcoming Champions League Playoffs game against Liverpool FC will be moved from Israel to Cyprus, they are distraught. Unable to afford the $550 to buy an airplane ticket, they are nonetheless determined to see the match. So, they need to come up with a plan—fast.
In Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, writer E. Lockhart and artist Manuel Preitano make the case for Jewish guilt with DC Comics’ first Jewish superhero in nearly 20 years.
Well before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Israeli artist Keren Goldstein created the art installation She’s Gone which features the clothing of Israeli murdered victims of intimate partner violence. Goldstein and She’s Gone co-director and designer Adi Levy, along with Rachel Louise Snyder, award-winning author of No Visible Bruises, are in conversation about why assaults against women have been recorded in greater numbers worldwide since the start of the pandemic, what can be done about it and how the exhibit She’s Gone is protesting the global phenomenon of gender-based murder performed by spouses and other family members. Dr. Shoshannah Frydman, Executive Director of the Shalom Task Force shares how the Jewish community is helping to combat and prevent domestic violence and available resources.
This program is sponsored by Moment Magazine and is in partnership with The Moment Gallery, Remember the Women Institute, She’s Gone, Strongin Collection and in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel.
Ruth K. Westheimer has led a remarkable life. Long before she became a world-famous sex therapist, she escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport to Switzerland and was a teenage sharpshooter in the Haganah. As a young woman she studied and taught at the university in Paris before making her way to the United States—and “becoming Dr Ruth.” She is in conversation about how to live life to the fullest with Tovah Feldshuh, the six-time Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor who plays her in the Off-Broadway show Becoming Dr Ruth. Westheimer and Feldshuh are joined by Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein.
Broadway actor and singer Bruce Sabath reflects on his relationship with Stephen Sondheim, who died on November 26.
With Hanukkah’s early arrival this year, I’m reminded of my first and last White House Hanukkah celebration thirteen years ago.
“We should maintain course until we know something that is data-driven.” Israel has closed its borders and is closely tracking the infected.
LUNAR: The Jewish Asian Film Project offers Asian Jews warm community within sometimes alienating American Jewish culture.
The organizers of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA will need to pay more than $25 million in damages, a jury in Virginia decided this week.
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Marion and Maury first met on a blind date in 1952—or so they thought. It wasn’t until after they were married that they discovered they had been photographed together years before.
A recent scientific paper presents new evidence for a real-life inspiration for the biblical tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
