The Supreme Court has entangled synagogues in culture wars with its absolutist rulings on religious liberty cases during the pandemic. ...
Yes, but the more difficult question is, what kind of changes do we want? The police and science have made great strides in preventing crime. ...
I respect Norm Coleman, but in his comments he repeats the demonstrably false talking point that the Democratic Party has moved to socialism. ...
Aron Wieder, a Satmar Hasid active in New York politics, finds himself in a complicated position. ...
One day last spring, I got a call from a woman I didn’t know, asking if I objected—as she did—to a work of mine being included in The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980-2015 along with works by men identified as notable abusers by the #MeToo movement. ...
When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried. ...
In writing about the unspeakable mass atrocities targeting the Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China, I’m reminded of the words of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and conscience of humanity, that “silence in the face of evil is complicity with evil itself”—and that, as ...
"The incitement and rhetoric did not come from all sides. In Israel, incitement reads from right to left." ...
"I don’t think there’s a lot of evidence that the U.S. response to the pandemic was disappointing because the government was too small." ...
In the previous issue, Moment asked whether arguments for small government are still possible at a time of pandemic and massive government intervention. Russell Roberts said yes; Harold Meyerson said no. Here, they respond to each other’s arguments. ...
Steven Israel and Norman Coleman weigh in. ...
The past few years have suggested that the free speech values enshrined in the First Amendment are running out of steam. ...