Sala Levin
Anna Isaacs
Anna Isaacs
Three young Israelis of Ethiopian descent, part of a volunteer delegation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discuss “Israel at Heart,” a leadership program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) open to Ethiopian Israelis.
Moment
Is there something about religion that is inherently violent, or is it a myth that religion leads to violence? And since much of the contemporary religious violence in the news is connected to Islam, is this a Muslim problem—or a broader human one? We posed these questions to a wide-ranging group of thinkers.
Anna Isaacs
The sight of 400 Orthodox rabbis marching up Pennsylvania Avenue in their black hats and beards blowing in the wind must have been astonishing to residents of wartime Washington. Also unusual was the date: October 6, 1943, two days before Yom Kippur.
Anna Isaacs
Moment spoke with Nathan Thrall, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, via email about the implications of Abbas’s announcement and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Anna Isaacs
Alex Hershaft’s thesis is a controversial one: that there are undeniable parallels between the Holocaust and the practice of killing animals for food.
Sala Levin
In Labyrinth of Lies, a young lawyer decides to prosecute Nazi soldiers nearly 20 years after the end of World War II. Moment speaks with the film’s director about how the trials changed present-day Germany.
Sala Levin
Anna Isaacs
The darkness lurking around the edges of heroism is the underlying and faintly troubling theme of Charles Kaiser’s The Cost of Courage, the story of a French family and the steep price its members paid for their work in the Resistance.
Moment
Can a small group of Orthodox leaders shake up the Israeli rabbinate?
Anna Isaacs
The Apostolic Journey of Pope Francis to the U.S. starts hours before Kol Nidre on Tuesday, when he arrives at Joint Base Andrews in the Maryland suburbs. The timing, officials say, could not be avoided.
