Trump Is at It Again
What’s behind the timing of Trump’s latest rant about the American Jewish community?
Book Review | Biography of a Baron
Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the wealthiest and most influential Jews of the 19th century, but his name is largely forgotten.
On Poetry | Nelly Sachs and the Poetry of Flight
Sachs dropped the masks that had let her speak through the murdered Jews of Europe and wrote from her own position in the world.
Opinion | A Brief Break from ‘To Bibi or Not to Bibi’
Netanyahu has long been the center of Israeli politics. But last week, Lapid finally changed the narrative.
Midterms ’22: What Our Jewish Voters Are Thinking
With the clock ticking down to midterm elections on November 8, Moment checked in with the participants in our Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP).
Book Review | A Family of Ambitious Aristocrats
The Morgenthaus, the late New York mayor Ed Koch once said, were “the closest thing we’ve got to royalty in New York City.”
Book Review | Secrets of a Musical Family
Mary Rodgers’s posthumous autobiography is a brash, outrageous and entertaining excursion into the life of its author.
Book Review | Studying Talmud with Beruriah
When the ancient rabbis had a question about the Torah—an important detail that seemed to be missing, an inconsistency between two passages, even a redundant word or verse—they would often solve the problem by writing a midrash, or story, filling in the missing piece or reconciling the seeming contradiction.
Talk of the Table | The Feast Before the Fast
Vered Guttman highlights the preparations that take place for the Yom Kippur pre-fast meal, and gives a recipe for Moroccan Sfenj Doughnuts.
Opinion | The GOP’s Christian Supremacy Problem
The Republican Party has a Christian supremacy problem—which is also an antisemitism problem.
From the Editor | ‘Make for Yourself a Rabbi’
Recently, my three-year-old began starting every sentence with the qualifier “I feel like”: “I feel like I had a good day at school,” “I feel like we should go to the park now,” “I feel like I want to color.”
Opinion | Why is Israel Deadlocked?
The prospect of Israel’s fifth election in less than four years does not seem promising.