Poem | First Covid-19 Summer
Some of us are lucky. We can swim in a lake. We can walk on a dirt road.
Book Review | The Power of DNA, Dolls and Delis
Last month, The New York Times published a piece called “Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah.”
We Fight to Build A Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz
When you step into the Jewish Museum’s current show, “We Fight to Build a Free World, An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz,” on view through February...
L’Dor v’Dor: Janice Rothschild Blumberg on why Jon Ossoff Was Sworn In On Her Husband’s Bible
On Inauguration Day, Vice President Kamala Harris swore in two new Senators from Georgia—Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s first Jewish senator. Ossoff was sworn...
Beshert | Boulders and Olive Trees
It is a few months before I meet my beshert.
I dream. My child’s father has gotten into my apartment. He is in my bedroom. I...
GW Hillel Students Lend a Hand to Older Jewish Adults for Vaccine Signup
After talking with friends and family about how cumbersome the vaccine sign-up process was, Dava Schub noticed that the only success stories she’d come across...
North Africa’s Forgotten Holocaust with Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum
Under the Nazi, Vichy, and Italian fascist regimes, Jews as well as some Muslims, were subject to race law and internments. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Moment Deputy Editor Sarah Breger in conversation with UCLA professors Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, co-editors of The Holocaust and North Africa. They discuss the experiences of North African Jews during World War II, why their histories have been marginalized and the relationship between Jews and Muslims during that period and how it reverberates today.
This program is cosponsored by the American Sephardi Federation
The Girl in the Photograph: The Face of the Polio Vaccine Trials Battles Another Epidemic
Marlene Kohn doesn’t remember much from that day back in 1954. She remembers waiting in line with her second-grade classmates at Colfax Elementary School in...
Adjusting to a New Political World
For some, the transition was swift and painless.
On the streets next to Capitol Hill, DC residents broke out into spontaneous dancing, as soon as police lifted the barricades next to their homes at the end of Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
Across the country, cheerful Americans posted photos online of champagne bottles popping open, sharing toasts with friends, and showing off Biden-Harris posters and inauguration memorabilia. (There were also the Bernie Sanders memes, but that’s another story.)
For others, however, transitioning to Joe Biden’s America was harder.
Counting the Dead
Instead of counting sheep when i have difficulty sleeping, it’s become my habit to count and name the dead.
Spice Box: Our Answer To The Communion Wafers
Our answer to the communion wafers.