Interview | Franklin Foer on the Golden Age of American Jews
“I realized I needed to dig in and understand exactly what’s happening in the country.“
“I realized I needed to dig in and understand exactly what’s happening in the country.“
Moment contributor Nathan Guttman examines the most recent political takes from the Jewish world and beyond.
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This week, Natan Guttman covers Bernie Sanders’ failed legislation to condition U.S. military aid to Israel, and shares what he heard from Iowa caucus voters last week, including from a woman wearing not one but two Trump hats.
Moment contributor Nathan Guttman explains the intricacies and fallouts of this week’s congressional testimony with university presidents Elizabeth Magill, Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth.
Violence and murder of the Bnei Menashe community in India. Antisemites hijacking a train’s intercom system in Austria. Antisemitic and anti-immigration rally in Victoria, Australia. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
“Most people don’t think in those terms,” says Goldman; what is more powerful is “a sense that God has chosen the Jews, that God has made promises to the Jews, that those promises still hold and God is still delivering.”
The news that President Carter’s United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida’s Gold Coast.
Book bans are about both control and terror.
Is it safe to guess that Biden has little to worry about with Jewish voters?
That Israel’s existence is miraculous is clear—as every respondent made sure to let us know—but the rest, like everything in Judaism, is up for debate.