Opinion: Was Humanitarian Intervention a Passing Fad?
Syria is a perfect example of how this 1990s concept has fallen out of favor // By Ben Cohen
Opinion | Clifford D. May
Syria’s descent into chaos and extremism does not bode well for its neighbors.
Voila! French Jewish Food Arrives!
Joan Nathan, the queen of Jewish American and Israeli cookbooks, takes to the old continent in her new book, Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for...
Marshall Breger | “What Happened at Auschwitz?”
Imams confront the Holocaust at Auschwitz
The Film that Launched a Thousand Court Cases
Few films have packed as much punch for American political culture as Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. With the Cold War shifting into...
Inside Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Two years after the dawn of the Arab Spring and six months after Mohamed Morsi was elected president, democracy is still a work in progress...
Anti-Muslim Discrimination in Post 9/11 America
Muslims have replaced Jews as targets of discrimination
During the 1940s and 1950s, some Jewish scientists were stripped of their security clearances, causing them to lose...
Revered and Reviled: Bernard Lewis
A decade after the September 11th attacks, Moment looks back on the career of the 95-year-old Middle East scholar whose ideas provided the framework for the war in Iraq. Long an outcast in contemporary Middle East Studies departments, he and his followers defend his legacy.
118 Days in Iran’s Evin Prison
Iranian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari was always fascinated by Jewish history and culture. His torturers made him pay for it.
Invisible Roma
Tied together through Romani, their mother tongue, and loosely organized in insular tribes, the Roma have traditionally served as craftsmen, musicians or seasonal hired hands, and have a reputation throughout Europe as thieves and swindlers. In an era when Europe’s birth rates have fallen to record lows, their numbers are exploding.