Opinion | Gagging History, Un-Gagging Hate
The debate over Poland’s new ‘Holocaust law’ stokes rising anti-Semitism.
Opinion | Shlomo Carlebach’s Tangled Legacy
It was the maydeleh’s #MeToo movement 20 years ahead of its time.
The New Year of the Woman
More women are running for major political office than ever before.
From the Editor | Lessons of Leadership From My Mother
My mother, Ruth Epstein, was a dynamic leader. She stayed home like many suburban moms of her era but was also the president of a number of women’s organizations and a leader of local causes.
Jewish Poland: A Lost Connection, a Forgotten Identity
“What did I have of a childhood? Nothing!” she exclaims, because from her childhood she remembers mostly the lack of food, missed years of education and years spent in Siberia to escape the Nazi occupation. It is hard to say she really grew up in Poland, hard to find something for which she is grateful.
The Deep: A Wrinkle In Time
Welcome NPR listeners! The Deep is our upcoming podcast about the
books that inspired us as young people. Stay tuned for our extended
conversation about A Wrinkle...
Taking the Pulse at AIPAC 2018
“Choose to Lead” is the AIPAC motto for 2018. There are 18,000 attendees, a figure slightly up from last year’s, including 3,600 students.
See one reason why David Brooks is a fan of Steven Pinker—The Moment Magazine Great DNA Experiment
Moment tests the DNA of 15 notable American Jews—including Joshua Bell, Mayim Bialik, David Brooks, Alan Dershowitz, A.J. Jacobs, Robert Siegel and Tovah Feldshuh—to see if and how they are related. Surprise, surprise, they are! And how!
Opinion | Rethinking Threats to Israel
Whatever the intensity of the anti-Israel voices rising from BDS and other anti-Israel advocacy organizations, they do not threaten our country’s national security.
An Interview With Sheik Mowafaq Tafik, Spiritual Leader of the Israeli Druze
The Druze religion has one million adherents, mainly in Syria and Lebanon. There are 140,000 in Israel, most of whom live in the north.
Winter Olympics 2018: Tracking Israel’s Athletes
Updates on Israel’s progress in the Winter Olympics.
Politics, Propaganda and the Olympics Games
Politics and propaganda are inseparable from the Olympic spectacle—though perhaps never more patently than in Berlin in 1936.