David Irving Sticks to His Script
Sixteen years later, the original “cast members” look back at the famous trial that debunked Holocaust revisionism—and changed their lives.
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.
An Ancient Community Gets a Young Leader
The new rabbi of Athens discusses the future of Greek Jewry.
Opinion // Who Will Be Israel’s Champion?
It’s never been easy for the Israeli establishment to foresee how a newly elected American administration is going to behave. Israel did not know in advance that Lyndon Johnson was going to be Israel’s best American friend, possibly ever.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s public intellectual no.1 has become its number-one defender of Jews—and democratic intervention around the world.
Book Review // The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
As a university student in Warsaw in the first half of the 1970s, I used to spend much of my summer vacation hitchhiking around the country. This is how one fine July day I found myself in Jedwabne, a nondescript but beautifully located small town in Poland’s Northeast. Wandering through the meadows and forests, I lost my sense of direction and eventually had to ask a local for the road out of town.
Book Review // A World Without Jews
No topic in history has provoked a greater outpouring of books and treatises than Hitler’s Third Reich. As of 1995 there were 25,000 titles on the Nazi era, and by the year 2000, the total reached “a whopping 37,000,” according to author Alon Confino, who cites a scholarly list compiled in Darmstadt. This continuing flood attests to the ongoing struggle, within and without Germany, to comprehend the motivations behind the rise of National Socialism and its monstrous offspring, the Holocaust.
An Inside Look at the World Zionist Congress Elections
by Liat Deener-Chodirker Every few years, Diaspora Jews have the opportunity to vote for the World Zionist Congress, which oversees
A Jewish State? Einstein and Opponents in 1944
by Harold Ticktin I recently plucked a yellowed 95-cent paperback from my burgeoning backlog–one called The Jews Among the Nations,
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,
Mohammed Dajani Daoudi // Evolution of a Moderate
Once a radical Fatah leader, the Palestinian professor has come under fire for taking his students to Auschwitz to teach reconciliation.