To mark the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, Moment asks curators from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Ben-Gurion University to choose outstanding works of art from each decade.
On my way to the gleaming airport named after him, I wondered what David Ben-Gurion and his fellow pioneers—Israel’s greatest generation—would think of their country today.
Jon Orbach
Tempestuous wind wasn’t the only thing challenging the University of Maryland’s Israel Fest on April 19.
On April 10 I attended the opening ceremony for Lest We Forget, a photo exhibition of Holocaust survivors at the Reflecting Pool by the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.
Sarah Breger
Freilich speaks with Moment about the threat of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, whether Israel is too dependent on the United States and why Israel cannot let Iran establish a permanent military presence on its border.
Natalie Portman made a political statement: You, Mr. Netanyahu, she said, are not the state.
Narrated by Aaron, a wisecracking 500-year-old African Gray parrot with a penchant for Yiddish puns, the book follows Moishe, a 14-year-old who yearns for adventure after discovering his father’s book of maps.
Jon Orbach
While the average American enjoys about 88 gallons of water every day, in Cape Town, the daily limit per person is 13.2 gallons—that is, if it wants to avoid “Day Zero,” when the taps run dry.
Ellen Wexler
. After Israel’s establishment, Idelson served in the first five Knessets, where she was also the first woman to serve as deputy speaker.
Supermans religion has never been explicitly acknowledged, and he is not commonly associated with his Jewish roots.
