Recognizing Sex Workers Who Hid Jews From the Nazis
Hedwig Porschütz helped protect Jewish fugitives from the Nazis, but her contributions were not honored during her lifetime.
Beshert | The Zoominar Did It
When I started hosting weekly zoominars for Moment at the start of the pandemic, I never could have imagined that it would bring my husband, Joe, closer to his birth mother.
How Is Cybersecurity Changing—and What Is Israel’s Role?
In the United States, Israel and around the world, cyberattacks are on the rise. To get a better understanding of this growing threat, we spoke to OIeg Brodt, the chief innovation officer at Cyber@BGU, an umbrella organization of Ben-Gurion University.
Uyghurs in China: An Inconvenient Genocide with journalists Tom Gjelten and Robert Siegel
The Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in the Xinjiang region along China’s western border, have faced discrimination, detention, and genocide at the hands of the Chinese Communist authorities. And yet most countries-including the U.S.-have largely remained silent. Tom Gjelten, a former NPR international and domestic affairs correspondent and Robert Siegel, Moment special literary contributor and former senior host of NPR’s All Things Considered, explore why, and how the situation recalls inaction in the face of Nazi persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, how discrimination against the Uyghurs became Chinese policy, and what can be done. Gjelten recently wrote about the Uyghurs as part of Moment‘s Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, which examines prejudice and discrimination worldwide.
A Coming-of-Age Adventure at Sea
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 Graphic Novel ‘Whistle,’ Jewish Guilt Is a Superpower
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.
She’s Gone – Shedding Light on Domestic Violence
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.
Becoming Dr. Ruth with Ruth K. Westheimer and Tovah Feldshuh
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’s Bruce Sabath Remembers Stephen Sondheim
Broadway actor and singer Bruce Sabath reflects on his relationship with Stephen Sondheim, who died on November 26.
Beshert | Hanukkah at the White House
With Hanukkah’s early arrival this year, I’m reminded of my first and last White House Hanukkah celebration thirteen years ago.
Israel ‘Keeping a Watchful Eye’ on Omicron Variant
“We should maintain course until we know something that is data-driven.” Israel has closed its borders and is closely tracking the infected.
The Miracle of Being Seen: A Very LUNAR Hanukkah
LUNAR: The Jewish Asian Film Project offers Asian Jews warm community within sometimes alienating American Jewish culture.