From the Newsletter | Degrees of Evil—and Joy—in 2023
It feels as though years of history have happened in 2023, and we’ve needed to “hate and forgive and remember and forget, to arrange and confuse, to eat and digest” with dizzying rapidity.
It feels as though years of history have happened in 2023, and we’ve needed to “hate and forgive and remember and forget, to arrange and confuse, to eat and digest” with dizzying rapidity.
As we come to the end of this challenging year, Moment takes a look back at the stories that shaped the American Jewish conversation in 2023. From our coverage of Israeli democracy to American politics to the E-Street Band, here are Moment’s most-read stories 2023.
Synagogue attack in Armenia. Anger over a committee to fight antisemitism in America. Denial of Hamas’ sexual violence against Israeli women in Canada. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
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.
Anne Frank conspiracy theory projected on museum in Amsterdam. Teen in Nazi armband tries to blow up school in Brazil. Man dubbed the “L Train Nazi” tags subway cars in New York City. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like.
Holocaust denial in Canada. Assault of a Haredi man in Israel. An escape from Paris to Scotland to avoid conviction. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
Moment Institute Fellow Nathan Guttman takes a deep dive into how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting the Republican presidential campaign and how Biden’s response to the violence has shifted since the outbreak of war.
An attempted coup in Germany. Holocaust denial in Poland. Conspiracy theories around Jewish figures in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only a clash of two nationalisms with overlapping claims to territory—it is also a clash of histories, whose wounds resist healing.
Join the undersecretary for a wide-open conversation about why she believes the United Nations should be playing a bigger role in fighting antisemitism and what that looks like; her visit to Auschwitz; and what it’s like to be a mediator.
If you’re in a room full of mainstream Jews who hew to the uncritical AIPAC line about Israel, you undoubtedly know that “apartheid,” “racist” and “fascist” are three words you can’t say about the Jewish state without risking denunciation, cancellation or total excommunication from the tribe.