04
Apr
Photos | The Holy Land 1000
I just returned from Israel, where I found myself in the passenger seat of a Jaguar roadster roaring through the Judean Hills on a segment of...
02
Apr
Which Hamilton Song Goes Best With Each Jewish Holiday?
A definitive guide.
29
Mar
How Should Reporters Cover Extremists?
White nationalist Paul Nehlen is preparing to challenge Paul Ryan for his U.S. House seat in Wisconsin’s 1st District for the second time in August.
28
Mar
The Wonder of Haggadah Imagery
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By
Sarah Breger
Adam S. Cohen surveys the history of the illustrated Haggadah from the Middle Ages to today.
28
Mar
Visual Moment | The Ringelblum Archive
Even before the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943) knew of the “Final Solution,” they understood that their story needed to be preserved. Under the...
28
Mar
Jewish Word | Maven
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By
Ellen Wexler
“Maven” is a relatively new transplant into American English. Written references to the word begin to increase in the mid-1960s and continued to rise through the early 2000s, according to Google Ngrams, which charts words’ popularity in books over time.
28
Mar
Morocco: Echoes From the Jewish Quarter
Signs of that Jewish community, once the largest in the Arab world, are everywhere—if you know where to look.
22
Mar
What is The Meaning of God Today?
Moment asks a diverse group of philosophers, scientists, writers, artists & clergy the age-old question that never gets old.
22
Mar
Ask The Rabbis | Should Jews at the Seder Ask God to Smite Our Enemies?
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By
Moment
Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that know You not, and upon the families that call not on Your name; for they have devoured...
22
Mar
Why I’m Inviting an Asylum Seeker to My Seder
At every Passover seder of my childhood, my father Gershon Glausiusz would break the middle matzah, as the Haggadah instructed, place one half in an embroidered bag, and fling the bag over his shoulder, saying, “This is how we carried our possessions when we went into exile.” He was talking of his own deportation…
21
Mar
Benjamin Franklin’s Midrash
Like fanfic authors today, Franklin extended a beloved text in a direction that fulfilled his vision of it, that satisfied his questions and fired his imagination. In other words, he wrote midrash.
20
Mar
Fifty Years Later, the Battle That Never Ended
The core idea behind that operation, and many others to follow, was the belief that we Israelis can solve our dispute with the Palestinians by first vanquishing them in the battlefield. If only we’ll be stronger militarily—if not morally—the problem will somehow solve itself. Of course, it never did.