Jewish Word // Philistine
Week in Review: High-Tech Dead Sea Scrolls, Israel Boycott Bill Axed and much more!
Ari Shavit on Love, Brutality and Hope
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit on his award-winning new book, “My Promised Land”
The Contrition and Confusion of Ari Shavit
How should we view the complicated history of Lydda and what it means for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
Sports Moment // Wrestling with the Ghosts of Olympics Past
With the Winter Olympics set to open in Sochi, Russia, in February, Moment’s Josh Tapper talks to David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Olympics and president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.
Week in Review: Obama’s State of the Union, Scarlett Johansson, Pete Seeger and more!
Poem // Art Gallery: Summer Internship
On the Road with Benjamin of Tudela
Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela roamed widely across the medieval world, from Narbonne to Cairo, meeting Rabbanites and Karaites along the way.
The Term Sephardic Jew
The Holocaust Through the Eyes of Women
Book Review // Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising
By Konstanty Gebert. Over the past few years, a series of books has brought to the attention of English-speaking readers the morally challenging, historically important and often overlooked or forgotten story of the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II, and of the terrible fate of the Poles under German rule.