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Moment speaks with a diverse group of educators and thinkers including Leon Botstein, Erica Brown, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Bob Mankoff and others.
Sarah Breger
It is hard to believe we are about to celebrate our third COVID Passover.
Dina Gold
“When I tell people that a Jewish family once owned Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello, their jaws drop,” says director Steven Pressman.
Ellen Wexler
When Russia attacked Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin stated that his goal was “denazification.” Historians agree that there is no substance to this claim—and that by invoking Nazism, Putin is attempting to weaponize the trauma of World War II to justify an invasion, and the many lives it has cost.
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When I met Moshe Azman, he identified himself not only as the rabbi of Kyiv’s central synagogue, but also as the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine.
On March 30, the congregation voted to officially adopt anti-Zionism as a core value.
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Yes, if what you mean is outright racial preferences, that is, bonus points for being a certain race.
The earliest Jewish tribes, inhabitants of the arid lands of Canaan, Phoenicia and Palestine, developed the first known Jewish prayer space, the tentlike tabernacle.
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The ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract that dates back to Talmudic times, is an object of ritual beauty.
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I have a personal interest in the carved Japanese netsuke, or figurines, that are at the center of the New York Jewish Museum’s current show “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” on view through May 15.
