What is the Future of Religious Freedom in the United States?
We talk to some of the “rock stars” of First Amendment scholarship: Marci Hamilton, Charles Haynes, Douglas Laycock, David Saperstein, Marc Stern, Jeffrey Toobin, Asma Uddin and others to explore contested issues—from contraception to sharia—and shed light on what they think will happen next.
Sweets & Symbols on Rosh Hashanah
Behind the Scenes at East Ramapo
A Question Revisited: Are The Old Synagogues of Eastern Europe Worth Saving?
Recorder of Misdeeds: Interview With a Holocaust Oral Historian
Moment speaks with Noemi Szekely-Popescu, an oral historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum who has collected stories from hundreds of survivors in the U.S. and internationally.
Becoming Jan Karski
One of the lesser-known heroes of World War II was Jan Karski (1914-2000), an officer in the Polish Underground resistance who infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto twice… This past April, actor David Strathairn took on the role of Karski in a dramatic reading of Derek Goldman’s play, Remember This: Walking with Jan Karski, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Remembering Lipman Pike
Book Review: David, The Divided Heart
The Establishment Question: Should the Town of Greece Ruling Worry Religious Minorities?
What’s it Like to Run the NYT’s Most-Reviled Bureau? We Asked Ethan Bronner
Think your job is tough? Try running the Jerusalem bureau of The New York Times.
Book Review // The Torture Trap
This thriller about the Israeli-Arab conflict comes with rare praise from one of the masters of suspense fiction and with a premise that suggests exploration of deep moral dilemmas. The endorsement comes from Stephen King, who says the book is “about the lies we tell ourselves until the truth is forced upon us,” and is “what great fiction is all about.”