What Is the One Thing Students Should Leave College Knowing?
Moment speaks with a diverse group of educators and thinkers including Leon Botstein, Erica Brown, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Bob Mankoff and others.
Moment Debate | Should the Supreme Court Outlaw Affirmative Action?
Yes, if what you mean is outright racial preferences, that is, bonus points for being a certain race.
Visual Moment | The Synagogue, a Symbol of Endurance
The earliest Jewish tribes, inhabitants of the arid lands of Canaan, Phoenicia and Palestine, developed the first known Jewish prayer space, the tentlike tabernacle.
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Poem | Ketubah
The ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract that dates back to Talmudic times, is an object of ritual beauty.
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Book Review | Germany’s Time of the Wolves
A European country bombed into rubble. Refugees streaming across multiple borders.
Talk of the Table | Adventures with Gefilte Fish
When my grandmother was 16, circa 1905, she journeyed alone from Smargon (in today’s Belarus) to Ellis Island
Moment Brand Studio: Liza Wiemer Fights Antisemitism with “The Assignment”
In her latest young adult novel, The Assignment, author Liza Wiemer asks readers what they would do to stop antisemitism—or any form of hate or injustice.
Jewish Word | Why We Say ‘Next Year in Jerusalem’
Seders all over the world this Passover will end with the words L’Shanah Ha Ba’ah b’Yerushalayim—“Next year in Jerusalem.”
Book Review | A Seder Reimagined By A Feminist Poet
The most formative experience of my college years wasn’t in a classroom.
Book Review | Amos Oz Looks Back at Literature
In the midst of a long conversation about men, women, love, sex and his own adolescence, the late Amos Oz reminds his interlocutor Shira Hadad that “the most important word in our whole conversation today is ‘sometimes.’”