Moment
A conversation about how Jews and Muslims follow similar paths in their American experience.
Memorial ceremonies are not meant to take away our pain. Ritualized and structured, they are supposed to give us an outline for living with the pain and grief.
She’s a Jewish mother’s worst nightmare and a Jewish man’s Gentile goddess.
Eve Epstein
António Guterres has disproportionately focused on condemning Israel’s legally justified actions.
Moment
In “Searching for Our Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky” and “Six Days Without Waze” (part of the “Israel Vision Project,” Summer 2024), Nadine Epstein introduces Evyatar Lipkin and Nadav Salzberger, two moderate Israelis with opposing ideologies who stand for a promising bipartisan political future in Israel.
The irony of both books is that they replicate the intellectual sins they ascribe to Zionists—one-sided descriptions of Israeli actions, lack of self-criticism, and suffocating certainty.
The two million Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I had been preceded by smaller movements of Jews to America: in colonial times, hundreds of Sephardim who fled Inquisitions; later, tens of thousands of Central European, mostly German, Jews who came, saw and prospered phenomenally in the middle of the 19th century.
“They were the shining realization of the Jewish American dream, people who could load their plates with all that this country had to offer.”
Jacob Forman
Many people, actually, the majority of the Lebanese, would love to see Hezbollah go, but the price has been too high.
Oren Kessler
The wedding was planned for October 7, 2023. Then the news of the attack broke.
