Role Models Part II
If as rabbinic sages say, an angel touches us before we are born and causes us to forget all the Torah we have learned in the womb, then we arrive in the world ravenous to learn.
Susannah Heschel: The Rabbi’s Daughter
Following in the footsteps of her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, the biblical scholar is at the forefront of the march toward social justice and reframing Judaism in the tradition of the prophets.
From the Newsletter | The Ripples Before the Storm
This week, as I followed reports about the threat of imminent war between Russia and Ukraine, I found myself thinking about history’s prequels.
Book Review | The Politics of Paranoia, Then and Now
Almost a half-century before Donald Trump signed on to the fraudulent notion that President Barack Obama’s American citizenship and constitutional legitimacy were suspect, Robert Welch (1899-1985) reached an equally alarming conclusion about the president of his day, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Searching for Normal in Hebron
IT’S NOON ON A BLISTERING BRIGHT August day in the northern part of the West Bank city of Hebron. I’ve
Moment Zoominar Transcript: Laughing at Myself with Father and Son Duo former Congressman Dan Glickman and Hollywood producer Jonathan Glickman
Dan Glickman, former U.S. representative and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, spoke at Moment’s zoominar this week promoting his new book,
Moment Anniversary | A Mirror of Jewish American History
In his editor’s note in the May 1975 inaugural issue of Moment, Fein set out the magazine’s mandate “that Moment will help raise the sense of Jewish possibility, hence also raise Jewish aspirations.”
Book Review | Unasked Questions About Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman By Ben Hubbard Tim Duggan Books 384 pp., $28 Where does
Opinion | When Political Enemies Become Satan
Countries with proportional election systems usually resist political paralysis. When multiple parties can form coalitions, the theory goes, polarization won’t happen as readily.
Anti-Semitism Monitor 2019
The Anti-Semitism Monitor reports anti-Semitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis.
Time, Typewriters and the Adelmans
Mary Adelman’s typewriter repair shop kept Manhattan writers, both famous and obscure, working for more than 50 years. It’s been almost a year since her death.