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.
Opinion | When Your Enemy Is a Friend to Democracy
We need to learn to take our heroes where we find them.
Opinion | The Strength of the Heartbroken
A visit with kibbutzniks from the Gaza border restores faith in Jewish continuity.
Opinion | A Second Act for Trump and Israel
In his first term, Donald Trump achieved in the Middle East something that few presidents before him could match: the Abraham Accords.
Poem | Ellipsis, Genesis
“In the beginning,” there was beauty and bounty…exile and fury. To reread Genesis in our era of intractable wars and mass displacements is to recognize...
Opinion | Are the Abraham Accords Coming Back to Life?
Over the past year, Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has fundamentally upended the Jewish state’s regional relationships—and brought down the curtain, at least temporarily, on Jerusalem’s previously vibrant ties to the countries of the Abraham Accords.
Past Presidents, Jewish Precedents: Inaugurations and the Jewish Electorate
On Monday, January 20, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. After a presidential campaign fraught with appeals to...
Interview | An Israeli-Yemeni Woman Embraces the Culture She Tried for Years to Avoid
“I wanted to tell the story of Yemeni Jewish women because I grew up with these really powerful strong women.”
In One Israeli Cab, the Whole Catastrophe
“This taxi represented most of the country. Which is, of course, the problem.”