08
Jan
Nancy Santanello (PA): ‘We Are in a Post-Fact Era’
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Moment
So many people are unable or unwilling to accept facts that do not agree with their bias.
08
Jan
Sandra Lawson (NC): ‘Trump Could Still Win If We Wind up in a War With Iran’
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By
I do believe that the impeachment of Trump will hurt his chances for re-election.
06
Jan
Roberta Kaplan Takes White Supremacy to Court
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Ellen Wexler
“There’s no such thing as fake news in a courtroom. There are facts—and we’re going to prove the facts.”
06
Jan
Talking With God at Auschwitz
A new exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former death camp examines how faith helped sustain people during the Holocaust.
06
Jan
Book Review | Angels of Death on Trial
“The understandable desire to find Mengele alive and try him, presumably on television, contributed to a reluctance on the part of some to accept the fact of his death.”
06
Jan
Ask the Rabbis | Is Silence Consent?
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By
On the one hand, we have the Talmudic legal adage: “Silence is like a confession”
06
Jan
Spice Box: Don’t Miss the Beforeskin Party
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By
Send your unmarked original newspaper clippings, curiosities and photographs to editor@momentmag.com.
06
Jan
Qassem Soleimani and the 2020 Elections
An attack that lasted less than a minute on Thursday night marked a new phase in America’s standing in the Middle East. What was until that moment a tense standoff between the Trump administration and the Ayatollahs in Tehran turned into a rapidly escalating conflict, which could lead to anything from a cycle of attacks and counter-attacks to an all-out war.
31
Dec
Anti-Semitism Monitor December Findings
If you want to understand the nature of resurgent anti-Semitism in the United States, as well as to confront the obstacles to combating it, you could hardly find a more useful guide then by examining the events of the last month of 2019.
30
Dec
Opinion | Israel’s ‘Democracy Quake’
In future times—may they be happier and calmer—we will remember the year between April 2019 and March 2020 as Israel’s annus horribilis.
30
Dec
Opinion | The Life-Changing Magic of Clutter
“I remember where, or whom, each object came from, what it stands for, and why I’ve kept it.”
30
Dec
Opinion | Mike Pompeo Was Right
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Naomi Ragen
When my daughter Bracha decided to sell her apartment in Modi’in, a small city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and move to a spacious corner house in Elkana, one of the first settlements over the so-called Green Line, no ideology or nefarious government scheme played any part in her decision.