22
Jul
Israel: Voices and Visions
As part of Moment’s Israel Vision Project, I’ve talked with about 70 Israelis from diverse backgrounds and from different points on the political and religious...
22
Jul
A Jewish Primer on Kamala + Biden meets Bibi
How do you turn a week that began with the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate, and ended with the sitting president dropping out of the race, into five points?
22
Jul
Treva Silverman, Joke Whisperer
Treva Silverman, who wrote for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and other hits, is adored and admired by fellow comedy writers and actors alike.
17
Jul
Wisdom Project | Annette Lerner, 94, Is Ready for Her Next Artistic Adventure
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Jodi Blecker
Annette Morris Lerner first landed a prop plane at age 12. She is a gifted artist, an author, a devoted mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother many times over.
16
Jul
Live From Tamiment
The Jewish summer resort in the Poconos served as a boot camp for Broadway and launched some of the biggest names in mid-century American entertainment.
16
Jul
Book Review | Love and Fear Drove a Dogged TV Pioneer
This fascinating, dense and lengthy volume, sets Barbara Walters’s life in context with detailed descriptions of the world in which she maneuvered and the contradiction between her public and private personas.
16
Jul
The Laugh
A physics professor is approached by a stranger in São Paulo and is pulled into a metaphysical mystery.
15
Jul
Samer Sanijlawi Knows Israelis “Better Than They Know Themselves”
If Israelis and Palestinians ever enter into negotiations, East Jerusalemite Palestinian Samer Sanijlawi intends to be part of the talks.
15
Jul
Summer Reads for Sun—and Shade
Spies in the Warsaw Ghetto! Ob/Gyns on Everest! Handmaids of Ancient Canaan!
12
Jul
Six Days Without Waze
Moment’s editor-in-chief zigzagged around Israel asking Israelis across a wide spectrum to articulate their visions for the country’s future.
12
Jul
From the Editor | Searching for Our Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky
In the 1920s, two strong-willed leaders clashed fiercely over different visions of the Jewish state. Eventually, they became friends.
12
Jul
Opinion | Is Antisemitism Eternal?
The “essentialist” antisemitism argument is oddly comforting—It’s not us, it’s them!—but also dangerous.