Explainer: Congress’s New Gentile-Led Torah Caucus
The apparent noninvolvement by any Jewish lawmakers raised eyebrows in some sectors of the American Jewish community, but proponents see another tool in the fight against antisemitism.
Winners and Losers in the Boycott Wars
Over the last few weeks, pro-Israel activists shared a fair amount of Schadenfreude as they followed the news of Unilever’s financial troubles.
Staff Picks: ‘The Velvet Underground,’ ‘The Nazi’s Granddaughter’ and Tammy Faye
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
After Seeing My Synagogue Attacked, How Can I Reconcile Security With Openness?
Can we reconcile security with our Jewish values? How can we welcome prospective new members if we are afraid to open the door to anyone unknown?
Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy with Martin Indyk and Dan Raviv
Henry Kissinger laid the groundwork for American diplomacy in the Middle East almost 50 years ago through his efforts to end the Yom Kippur War and his “shuttle diplomacy” with Israel, Egypt and Syria.
In his new book, Master of the Game, Martin Indyk, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under President Obama, takes an in-depth look at how American diplomacy operates behind closed doors and how Kissinger’s design for Middle East peacemaking remains key to brokering peace in the region. Indyk is in conversation with former CBS News correspondent and Moment contributor Dan Raviv, coauthor of Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance.
Beshert | Encounter in Eilat
I heard a female voice, a voice that seemed to be addressing me. “Hi, how are you today?” It was, to my astonishment, the sabra from the hotel lobby.
Dispatch from Colleyville: Making Sense of the Synagogue Attack
Colleyville has attained the type of fame it had never wished for. Now etched in American Jewish collective memory alongside Pittsburgh, PA and Poway, CA, the town has become yet another reminder of the dangers still facing Jews in America, and of the fact that these dangers are on the rise.
The Kings and Rothschilds: Working Together for Civil Rights with Janice Rothschild Blumberg and Nadine Epstein
Janice Rothschild Blumberg and her husband Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, whose synagogue in Atlanta was bombed by white supremacists in 1958, were close friends with Coretta Scott King and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, working together championing civil rights.
Janice Rothschild Blumberg and Moment’s editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein are in conversation about Dr. King’s and Rabbi Rothschild’s partnership that brought the Black and Jewish communities of Atlanta together in the pursuit of justice against racism and antisemitism. Rothschild will share personal anecdotes and also talk about her soon to be released book What’s Next?: Southern Dreams, Jewish Deeds and the Challenge of Looking Back while Moving Forward.
This Tu B’Shevat, A Call to Invest in Climate Action
“The focus of the fest this year was about investing in solutions, and pulling away from supporting the systems that perpetuate the problem,”
Congressman Jamie Raskin: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy in Conversation with Amy E. Schwartz
Jamie Raskin, a father, Congressman and Constitutional law professor, began 2021 grief stricken after the painful loss of his son, Tommy, to suicide. Just seven days later he experienced the horrific events of the Capitol insurrection on January 6 and then led the impeachment effort of President Donald Trump. Congressman Raskin details the first 45 days of 2021 that forever changed him and his family in his just released memoir Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. Congressman Raskin is in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz, Moment’s Book & Opinion Editor.
A Headstone for Zach
People told us that it would get better, the grief. But how was this different from forgetting?
Reflections on January 6, One Year Later
Throughout the Trump presidency, the summer of Black Lives Matter protests and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when asked about the alarming degree of polarization and anger in politics, I would always offer by way of comparison a time when I thought things had been worse: 1968.