Opinion // Stop the Destruction of Palestinian Olive Groves
Trees matter, and Israelis, of all people, should understand why.
Trees matter, and Israelis, of all people, should understand why.
When I was in Israel in late 2013, I drove across the rugged expanse of the Negev on Route 31. At the time, Israeli newspapers were full of articles describing highly controversial demolitions of Bedouin homes and villages, failed plans to resettle the Bedouin, and ongoing tensions between the Bedouin and the Israeli government.
With the draft law rolled back, Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox aren’t likely to serve in the military.
“I don’t take kindly to being called anti-Semitic and I don’t take kindly to having Jewish self-hatred attributed to me. I don’t take kindly to it at all.”
Professor Daniel Schwartz on how fears of Jewish disloyalty fueled deportations and massacres in Eastern Europe during and after the war, how the Jewish Legion helped conquer Ottoman Palestine for the British, and why World War I was a turning point for European Jewry.
In honor of Father’s Day, we’re collecting your dad stories. From sweet remembrances to embarrassing moments and everything in between, send them all to editor@momentmag.com with the subject line “Father’s Day” for a chance to be published on our website.
Moment spoke with Mark Graber, the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism at the University of Maryland’s Carey School of Law, about Zivotofsky v. Kerry and its implications.
Anti-Semitism is the least creative thing you can think of and the most destructive. But in a sense, anti-Semitism survives because of a weird and dangerous kind of creativity. Let me explain why.
Moment spoke to the authors of the upcoming book Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in the Public Sphere about the controversy surrounding the group, and their thoughts on resolving it.