I have no doubt that the sweaty, swaying kids on campus believed that they had found their Vietnam. Too bad their Vietnam was my 1932 Reichstag elections. ...
Passing the Antisemitism Awareness Act in response to students protesting the war in Gaza is a cynical, or at best naïve move says Professor Omer Bartov. ...
For those who are used to hearing McCarthyism thrown around as a generalized term of abuse, it may be worth looking back at the details of that time. ...
Watching Verdi's Nabucco and its story of Jewish persecution and pervasive violence against a Jewish community in exile may as well have been taken from recent headlines. ...
Digital Editor Noah Phillips discovered that the six Israeli teenagers' biggest fear was facing polarization in the United States. ...
Moment's Israel editor argues that we can't encourage peace or struggle against evil through the secondary victimization of the dead. ...
"I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing," writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943. ...
For nearly 1,000 years, Cairo’s Karaites guarded one of the world’s most Legendary Hebrew manuscripts. Thirty years ago, it vanished…
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This poem by Rachel Mennies looks to the leaves for signs of resilience and finds them “more alive” for having braved the dark. ...
"I think for most of us, we’re looking for stability or safety. But life isn’t stable and a surprise is always coming. That’s what makes life, the movement of things." ...
A short history on how onions are used for Jewish cooking and the health benefits of onions of all varieties. ...
The first time I found myself in synagogue for the chanting of the Book of Kohelet, or Ecclesiastes—typically read by Ashkenazi Jews during the Shabbat of Sukkot, the fall harvest festival—my first astonished thought was that I’d wandered into the wrong room, or at least picked up the wrong book. ...