Moment
Dina Gold
“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.
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!
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.
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.
Updates on Israel’s progress in the Winter Olympics.
Liam Hoare
Politics and propaganda are inseparable from the Olympic spectacle—though perhaps never more patently than in Berlin in 1936.
Moment
What we’re reading—and watching—this week
Sarah Breger
On Saturday an Iranian drone entered Israeli airspace and was shot down by an Israeli helicopter a minute and a half later.
While the November meeting marked the first time any motion to divest from Israel passed in Michigan’s student government, it also marked the first time a professor—or a speaker of any kind—was barred from addressing the student government.
Moment
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
Ten years ago, only around 6 percent of Israeli Jews self-identified as Reform or Conservative. Today, that number has grown to 11 percent.
