10
May
Unravelling the Words of an Unlikely Villain
In seeking purity, do we risk missing the bigger picture?
08
May
Great Love Stories from the Holocaust
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By
Moment
It is easy to find love in a beautiful place. But to find love in the shadow of death is most remarkable. And remarkable were the young Jews who, caught in the Holocaust, held onto life in ghettos, forests, transit camps, slave labor camps and death camps.
08
May
Persecuted In Pakistan
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By
Taha Anis
Accused of blasphemy for practicing—or even affirming—their faith, Ahmadis still cling to the country they helped establish.
07
May
Ask The Rabbis | Has Israel Changed Judaism?
“When Jews gathered as religious communities, we didn't have to tolerate significant differences: When we disagreed, we just founded a new synagogue with the like-minded....
07
May
Talk of the Table | Seven Dishes for Seven Decades
The long tradition of Jewish food, wrote culinary historian Gil Marks, has always been one of “transforming and transferring,” and Israeli food is no exception....
07
May
Seven Decades of Israeli Art
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.
07
May
From The Editor | May/June 2018
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.
07
May
At the University of Maryland, Critics Boycott Israel Fest
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By
Jon Orbach
Tempestuous wind wasn’t the only thing challenging the University of Maryland’s Israel Fest on April 19.
04
May
Photo Exhibition | Lest We Forget
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.
26
Apr
At 70, How Secure Is Israel?
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By
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.
25
Apr
Opinion | Natalie Portman: A Role Model for Diaspora Jews
Natalie Portman made a political statement: You, Mr. Netanyahu, she said, are not the state.
23
Apr
Book Review | Yiddish for Pirates
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.