Opinion | Would a President Pence Be Good for the Jews?
The vice president’s Indiana track record provides clues.
Opinion | Are Jews Historical Artifacts in Europe?
The future of Europe’s dwindling Jewish communities is bleak.
Opinion | A Good Deal Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Beautiful’
But can President Trump and his special Middle East envoys accept anything less?
From The Editor | July/August 2017
A few days after we finished Moment’s last issue, I got on a plane to China, a country I had never visited. There is so much to say about China. To begin with, it is no longer the shattered country I studied in college in the years following Mao’s death and the end of the Cultural Revolution.
The Week Before the Six-Day War
I arrived in Jerusalem as a reporter five days before the war. When I asked directions in English of a woman on the street near the King David Hotel, she looked at me sharply and said, “Haven’t you gone home yet?” When I said I had just arrived, she nodded and pointed out my destination. The King David itself, I would learn, had gone overnight from 86 percent occupancy to one percent.
Charlottesville’s Jewish Mayor Responds to White Supremacists
Since Richard Spencer’s torch-lit rally, Charlottesville has been a flashpoint of white supremacist activism.
American Jews, Don’t be Surprised by Bibi’s Kotel Flip-Flop
North American Jewish leaders say they are shocked that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled the Kotel compromise and agreed to promote the Orthodox conversion bill. They shouldn’t be.
‘Broken Glass’ Shines at Theater J
Though a broken mirror foretells seven years of bad luck, Theater J’s production of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass foreshadows nothing but promise from the riveting cast exquisitely directed by Aaron Posner.
Leonard Fein // Let My People Go… Where?
Originally Published in Volume 2, Issue 4 (1977)
It was too good to last. The stirring saga of Soviet Jewry—identity rediscovered, tyranny opposed, the world's conscience...
Defining Anti-Semitism: A Conversation With the EU Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism
On June 1, The European Parliament adopted a working definition of anti-Semitism for the first time. The definition, borrowed from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, serves as a politically important descriptor of the phenomenon. “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews,” the definition reads. “Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/ or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Herzog Heirs Win Again in Fight to Recover Nazi-Looted Art
Starting with the German occupation of 1944, the case alleged, the collection was taken away from the family after years of persecution