Jewish Genes as Time Machines
A lonely Jew reassembles her vanished family through a combination of genealogical sleuthing, genetic testing and cousin-fishing
Opinion // Hillary the Hawk
Clinton’s foreign policy may surprise her opponents—and her supporters.
Opinion // Israel Is Sitting This One Out
Even Bibi Netanyahu has gone quiet on this year’s U.S. presidential election.
Opinion // I’m Just Saying No To Hillary Clinton
Why Donald Trump is the best option for Israel—and America.
Opinion// Left or Right? Neither Side Feels Safe
What are Jews to do in an election season that features Trump, BDS and BLM?
From the Editor // Nadine Epstein
This summer we lost Elie Wiesel, a great and kind man who was an inspiration to me. Moment has now lost both of its founders, and I, two friends. Without Elie and Leibel—Leonard Fein—it is more important than ever that Moment continue its work and carry on their legacies.
The Art of Mark Podwal
Many will be familiar with Mark Podwal’s black and white drawings for the New York Times Op-Ed page and his Jewish-themed illustrations for books by authors such as Elie Wiesel.
Of Patriarchs and Matriarchs
by Nadine Epstein
I watched both the Republican and Democratic conventions carefully, and now that they are over, I remain struck by the vastly different styles...
DNC Dispatch: “Sometimes You Just Have to Take One for the Team.”
by Amy E. Schwartz
It had been, she said, “a difficult week.” It sure had. But when Florida representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz walked into the reception...
Jewish Word // Bible
When biblical scholar Elsie Stern lectures about the ancient world at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the first thing she does is hold up a Bible and tell her students, “For most of the first 3,000 years that these words were around, if you said ‘Bible,’ no one would have any idea what you were talking about.”
From the Editor // May/June 2016
On occasion, tectonic shifts occur that break apart continents of political thought and reshape them into new ones