Ellen Wexler
“To say that in front of a government-appointed judge at a time like that, in 1963, was a pretty bold statement to make when you’re on trial for your life.”
Sarah Breger
Andy Zaltzman loves a good pun. Actually, the 42-year-old British Jewish comedian can rarely stop at just one.
Moment
At the end of the 19th century, European liberals and Zionists developed diametrically opposite strategies for dealing with the menace posed by anti-Semitism…
The Donald Trump victory is not only highly distressing to me as an American; it is troublesome because it portends to render peace in my beloved Israel more distant than ever.
Moment
Michael Chabon’s first published works, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and A Model World, were realist, lovely and a little dull with caution. Chabon himself describes his early work as “plotless and sparkling with epiphanic dew,”
Anna Isaacs
Every stone in Old Prague speaks three languages: Czech, German and Hebrew, the languages of the three nations who have lived there together for more than 1,000 years.
I wanted to tell my father that the fish salad was shining, but he was asleep, calling my name in long somniloquous moans. I stood at his bedside, the shape of our room made visible by the scarce lights of the Marshal Zhukov Street. Slava! My name rose from his lungs…
On some level I truly believed that if Leonard knocked on my door and said, “Come away with me now,” I’d have gone.
In a Trump administration, what’s the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship? Read excerpts from Moment’s conversation with Aaron David Miller.
At yesterday’s General Assembly Moment Magazine Editor Nadine Epstein and former U.S.-Middle East policy analyst Aaron David Miller discussed how Trump the candidate will translate into Trump the foreign policy president.
At least three times, I’ve taken a brief nap on an election night, relieved and reassured that the leader I believed in was about to be elected, only to be devastated as the sun came up.
Ellen Wexler
How did you feel when the results came in? What will it be like to be Jewish during a Trump presidency?
