Opinion | Clifford D. May
Syria’s descent into chaos and extremism does not bode well for its neighbors....
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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 Jewish Cooking in France. Nathan returns to the country where she spent several years of her youth and wends her...
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 high gear and a fervent anti-communist patriotism sweeping the nation, the film burst onto the scene at a time when...
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 in Egypt. Moment’s Daphna Berman talks with Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. What is the origin...
The Unlikely Emissary
Houda Nonoo, the ambassador to the United States from Sunni-ruled Bahrain, is a Jewish woman. She’s a symbol of the tiny island kingdom’s tolerance and multiculturalism at a time when Shiite demonstrators are demanding economic and political reforms....
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 their jobs or be downgraded to lower-security projects. One of the most famous cases was that of physicist J. Robert...
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. ...
Live from New York, It’s Anthony Weiner
The quick-witted Democratic congressman has rocketed to fame by taking on Republicans with gusto. But when it comes to Israel, this hardcore liberal—who is married to a Muslim-American—is a hawk....
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....