Nostra Aetate at 50: Jewish Art, Christian Conscience
This year’s Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference includes an exhibition of the work of Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. A contemporary of Chagall, Szyk was largely forgotten in the decades immediately following WWII, but may now be ideally positioned to serve as bridge for continuing Jewish-Christian dialogue on the Holocaust and beyond.
Q&A: Explaining Israel’s Wave of Violence
Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, on how the violence began and what can be done to quell it.
Amid Refugee Crisis, Jewish Groups Step Up
Q&A: Israel and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Q&A: Ethiopian-Israeli Holocaust Museum Volunteers
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.
Religion & Violence // A Moment Symposium
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.
When 400 Rabbis Marched on Washington
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.
Q&A: Abbas’s UN “Bombshell”
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.
Q&A: Animal Rights Activist and Holocaust Survivor Alex Hershaft
Alex Hershaft’s thesis is a controversial one: that there are undeniable parallels between the Holocaust and the practice of killing animals for food.
New German Film Revisits Groundbreaking Auschwitz Trials
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.