Interview | Tova Mirvis
“We Would Never” is inspired by a real 2014 murder, exploring how a family spirals into violence over custody.
Mahmoud Muna Launched His New Book At My House. Seven Days Later Israeli Police Arrested Him
Israelis and Palestinians once used to have “great conversations together. We don’t do that much anymore.”
Ask the Rabbis | Are There War Crimes According to Jewish Thought, And If So, What Are They?
Where a path exists to preserve innocent life without compromising necessary military objectives, Jewish tradition urges us to take it.
Hitler’s Enablers Included Conservative German Jews
History is replete with examples of people naïvely voting against their interests or loving a leader who doesn’t love them back.
Moment Debate | Should There Be Broad Limits on Teen Social Media Use?
We’ve clamped down on their freedom in the physical world but given them free rein in the virtual world.
Jewish Word | The Mizrahi Mosaic
For so many Jews, in Israel and around the globe, the word Mizrahi, much like the words Ashkenazi and Sephardi, is more than just a label.
Opinion | In Praise of Germany’s Flawed ‘Culture of Remembrance’
I hope I’m not being naïve in thinking that what these memory activists accomplished endures and their dedication still inspires.
Jewish Word | The Jewfro Grows Up and Out
The stereotype of “Jewish” hair is rooted in a history of racial pseudoscience, radical self-empowerment and comic self-deprecation.
From the Editor | Riding the River of Tumult
In Moment’s pages, the internal debates and external challenges of the Jewish people, and of the wider world, are reflected.
Book Review | A Language Forged in Fire
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right.
Book Review | A Tale of Dueling Abrahams
Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham.
Book Review | Jews at the End of the World
Families, cities and planets are “atomized,” seemingly beyond redemption, in this hellscape of a novel.