10
Jun
Debate | Is Small Government Still Possible?
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Moment
We asked Russell Roberts and Harold Meyerson.
10
Jun
Ariana Mentzel (MI): ‘Trump Is an Agitator and Spokesman for Fascist Thinking and Brutality’
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Ariana Mentzel (34), a Democrat from Beverly Hills, MI, leads college students in conversations about anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Detroit Center for...
10
Jun
Opinion Interview | Why Evangelicals Worship Trump
What do President Donald Trump and the religious right see in each other?
10
Jun
Stuart Baum (MI): ‘The Institution of the Police is Broken and Must be Upended’
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Stuart Baum (22), a Democrat from Detroit, MI, attended Jewish day school growing up and is a recent graduate of Wayne State University where he served...
10
Jun
Opinion | The Other COVID-19 Effect
Like a first-rate burglar breaking into every apartment in a condominium, the COVID-19 pandemic has breached almost every country in the world, catching each one in its own incidental moment of current affairs.
10
Jun
Janice Weiner (IA): ‘It’s Not About the President—it Is About the Country and Systemic Racism’
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Janice Weiner (61), a Democrat from Iowa City, IA, is president-elect of her synagogue, Agudas Achim, and on its safety committee, an area where she gained...
10
Jun
Bud Hockenberg (IA): ‘Systemic Racism is an Antifa Fiction to Destroy America’
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Bud Hockenberg (92), a Republican from Des Moines IA, is the former president of the Des Moines Jewish Federation and a founding member of what is...
09
Jun
Israeli Politics Today with Nathan Guttman
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Nathan Guttman, Moment Institute Senior Fellow and correspondent for Israel’s public broadcasting corporation, and Sarah Breger, Moment Deputy Editor, explain Israel’s electoral system and discuss Israel’s new unity government and the potential annexation of parts of the West Bank.
09
Jun
The Op-Ed Problem
With so many people up in arms about The New York Times’s handling of Senator Tom Cotton’s opinion piece on its op-ed page, it’s time for all of us to be thinking about the mission of opinion sections.
09
Jun
JPVP Debate | Will America finally confront income inequality?
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This summer has placed racial inequality front and center in the American consciousness.
08
Jun
Sandra Lawson (NC): ‘If It Stops Being on the News, People Will Stop Caring’
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Dan Freedman
Rabbi Sandra Lawson serves as Jewish educator and associate chaplain for Jewish life at Elon University near Burlington, North Carolina. Since September, Lawson has been a participant in our Jewish Political Voices Project, where Moment is exploring the views of American Jewish voters in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Moment contributor Dan Freedman spoke with Lawson about the recent events surrounding the murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed.
08
Jun
The Complex Relationship Between AIPAC and Black Americans
AIPAC is a political organization, and as such, it has been engaging with black voters, activists and lawmakers for years on a political level. The lobby has been actively seeking these engagements, reaching out to African-Americans in all stages of their political careers, from college student body presidents to state and federal lawmakers, and by featuring prominent figures in the community, such as Bakari Sellers, as key voices within AIPAC.