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. ...
The rise of Volodymyr Zelensky from comic improv-artist-turned-movie-star, to wealthy producer, to wartime leader of a besieged Ukraine is improbable enough to invite hyperbole. ...
“There’s nowhere else in America quite like Dearborn, and nowhere else quite as American,” Jacob Forman observes. ...
This Passover, before or after reading the Haggadah, many Israeli Jews are likely to mention a casual but common Hebrew phrase: “We got past Pharaoh, we will get past this too.” ...