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 ...
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. ...
Anita Diamant’s latest book, Period. End of Sentence, which “explores the cultural roots of menstrual injustice,” goes boldly where no writer has gone before. The New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent is in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz, Moment’s Book and Opinion editor, about misogyny, her books—both ...
American Jewish journalist Danny Fenster had been sentenced to 11 years in prison by Myanmar’s ruling military junta, with the possibility of up to 30 more. ...
The final installment of Moment's climate series, highlighting the usually untrumpeted work of paradigm shift within the Jewish community. ...