Your browser does not support the video tag. What does community mean in the 21st century? Human beings are gregarious. ...
Dinner at 5, wear a sweater. ...
Moment asked some smart, thoughtful people about a complicated issue: U.S. policy toward Iran (“What’s the Deal with Iran?” January/February 2021). ...
Every few years, a YouTube clip makes its way around the literary corners of the internet: A young Cynthia Ozick stands up at a 1971 panel on feminism featuring Norman Mailer. ...
Antiquities is peak Cynthia Ozick. This novel is a tiny peephole into the purpose of living in a world that outlasts us. ...
I slumbered eyes-open through childhood seders, bored out of my mind, wondering if that meant I was the Wicked Son, or in my case, the Wicked Daughter, who counted even less. ...
In the middle of the 18th century in the city of Ancona on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, a young Jewish girl, about age 15, produced a stunning work of embroidery. ...
How is my desire lost? It pours out of my body. ...
David Duke established another life for himself in Austria—and remained undisturbed in his Alpine paradise. ...
In 2018, as synagogues pondered livestreaming some services for the convenience of infirm relatives, we asked the rabbis to contemplate what was surely a distant, speculative future: “What role should virtual presence play in Jewish ritual and community?” ...
In February, in a case that made international headlines and provoked widespread condemnation, a court in Warsaw ordered two Polish historians of the Shoah to apologize to an elderly woman from the village of Malinowo for having “inexactly portrayed” her uncle Edward Malinowski, the village’s wartime headman. ...
In the rise and fall of Hitler’s Germany, villains, victims and heroes figure profusely and are easily recognized. ...