It’s a literary crowd here at Moment. When I sent the call out to participate in a list about the
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A barrage of tragedies have further darkened this already chilly winter season, but there’s one advantage to the short days
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I didn’t really know much about Judaism growing up—only that my half identity called for both a menorah and a
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Great books to read and gift! ...
Reading Joanna Olczak-Ronikier’s book about her family, I was reminded of my first morning in Poland on a reporting assignment in 1981. ...
Labeling it a glorified scrapbook wouldn’t fit the bill, though its fusion of words and images, its blurring of the self and the collective, brings one to mind. ...
Lev’s wise and witty stories trace the lives and struggles of Baka’s denizens over the three decades following the 1967 Six-Day War. ...
To construct a list of books that made a difference in American Jewish life between 1975 and 2025 is to be reminded that however deeply you ponder what to include, the exercise’s main value is as a conversation-starter. ...
For U.S. Jews today, their forebears’ division and equivocation in the face of slavery’s evils can only be a cause for sober reflection. ...
There is no pleasure in accompanying Sharabi through his ordeal and his personal losses, but we can get some pleasure from the vivid description of his liberation day. ...
What does it say about antisemitism in America that its most violent outrage is not widely remembered, caused no deaths and had some consequences that were arguably positive? ...
Plath is simply not in Larkin’s league of bigots. ...