It's almost time for Rosh Hashanah, the sweetest holiday of the year. In case you need a little easing into the holiday spirit, here's culinary...
Recorder of Misdeeds: Interview With a Holocaust Oral Historian
Moment speaks with Noemi Szekely-Popescu, an oral historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum who has collected stories from hundreds of survivors in the U.S. and internationally.
The Establishment Question: Should the Town of Greece Ruling Worry Religious Minorities?
by Joseph D. Becker
On a recent visit to a local post office in Westchester, I was surprised to see, on the counter facing the public,...
What’s it Like to Run the NYT’s Most-Reviled Bureau? We Asked Ethan Bronner
Think your job is tough? Try running the Jerusalem bureau of The New York Times.
Steve Greenberg: How Orthodox Jews Changed Their Minds On Gay Rights
Same-sex rights proponents suffered an unusual loss this week when a federal judge in Louisiana upheld the state's ban on gay marriage, bucking a domino-like chain...
Nathan Guttman on AIPAC: A Waning Superpower?
Is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobbying group, facing an imminent crisis of power?
What do Italian Futurism, the Pre-Raphaelites and Judaism and Christianity have in common?
This summer and fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is highlighting the little-known Pre-Raphaelites in the exhibit, “The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design” (through October 26).
What We’re Reading: Eileen Lavine
Each week, we'll take a look at what Moment editors are reading, from newspapers to novels. This week we hear from Eileen Lavine, a senior editor...
Statement from Moment Magazine on the passing of Moment Founder Leonard Fein
We are sad to announce that Moment co-founder and founding editor Leonard Fein has passed away.
A Vegetarian’s Take On Kosher Barbecue
by Jennifer Cole
It’s 12:30 p.m. on a Monday afternoon. Still tired and weary-eyed from the weekend, hungry business people stumble out of the office and...
Simon Henderson Q&A: Qatar’s Outsized Role in the Middle East
"Qatar does not support Hamas, Qatar supports the Palestinians,” Qatari Foreign Minister Dr. Khalid Al Attiyah declared in a CNN interview that aired this week. Yet some questions...
Modern Hebrew: The Epic Transformation of a Language
While teaching modern Hebrew in England and the United States, Norman Berdichevsky got a shock. Many of his students, he found, “were unable to utter...