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01 Feb

The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel with journalist Kati Marton in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz

February 16, 2022
By Moment
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Angela Merkel, who just stepped down as German chancellor after a remarkable16 years, has redefined the image of a woman leader. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, Merkel worked as a research chemist before entering politics and rising to become the unofficial leader of the West. Award-winning journalist Kati Marton, author of The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, shares how Merkel helped shape Germany into what some call the world’s moral center, and explores her legacy—including allowing Middle Eastern refugees to enter Germany while the world looked away. She also discusses the rise of the far right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) and Merkel’s complicated relationships with other world leaders such as Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Marton is in conversation with Amy E. Schwartz, Moment’s Book & Opinion Editor.

31 Jan

Latest, Politics

Explainer: Congress’s New Gentile-Led Torah Caucus

February 16, 2022
By Noach Phillips
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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.

31 Jan

Politics, Winter Issue 2022

Book Review | The Palpable Joy of Journalism

February 25, 2022
By Vivian Gornick
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The time is summer, 1960; the place, Washington, DC; the protagonist, 16-year-old Carl Bernstein on his way to buy a suit for a job interview as a copy boy at the Evening Star, the city’s major afternoon paper at that time.

31 Jan

Ask the Rabbis, Politics, Winter Issue 2022

Ask the Rabbis | Is Political Compromise a Jewish Virtue?

January 31, 2022
By Moment
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That’s how Abraham resolves his dispute with Lot over grazing lands: “If you head left, I’ll head right. If you head right, I’ll go left” (Genesis 13:9).

25 Jan

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Could Nida Allam Become the Fifth Member of ‘the Squad’?

January 31, 2022
By Mark I. Pinsky
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Nida Allam’s candidacy to represent North Carolina’s 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives has been supported by members of “the Squad,” with whom she shares certain policy stances, including views on Israel which have made some area Jewish leaders uneasy.

18 Jan

Jewish Politics & Power, Latest, Politics

Dispatch from Colleyville: Making Sense of the Synagogue Attack

February 24, 2022
By Nathan Guttman
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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.

14 Jan

Latest, Politics, Zoominars

Congressman Jamie Raskin: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy in Conversation with Amy E. Schwartz

February 17, 2022
By Moment
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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.

06 Jan

From the Newsletter, Latest, Politics

Reflections on January 6, One Year Later

January 20, 2022
By Robert Siegel
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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.