05
Feb
Ari Shavit on Love, Brutality and Hope
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit on his award-winning new book, “My Promised Land”
05
Feb
The Contrition and Confusion of Ari Shavit
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jtapper
How should we view the complicated history of Lydda and what it means for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
30
Jan
Sports Moment // Wrestling with the Ghosts of Olympics Past
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Josh Tapper
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.
30
Jan
Week in Review: Obama’s State of the Union, Scarlett Johansson, Pete Seeger and more!
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Moment
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama reinforced Israel’s status as a Jewish state and a key ally of the...
29
Jan
Poem // Art Gallery: Summer Internship
By Richard Michelson
What shall I ask of this sixteen-year-old girl,
born in the final years of the twentieth century,
who has tattooed her great-grandfather’s camp number
onto her forearm? ...
29
Jan
On the Road with Benjamin of Tudela
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By
Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela roamed widely across the medieval world, from Narbonne to Cairo, meeting Rabbanites and Karaites along the way.
28
Jan
The Term Sephardic Jew
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Sarina Roffe
By Sarina Roffé
People often ask me to define the term “Sephardic Jew.” The answer is complicated. No, it does not mean “from Spain,” although that...
28
Jan
The Holocaust Through the Eyes of Women
For the first four decades after the Holocaust, most memoirs and historical studies viewed life in the camps through male eyes. But since the early...
27
Jan
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.
23
Jan
Sample Letter from Donor to Plan Provider
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Name of Plan Provider
Address
City, State Zip
Re: Request for Direct Charitable Distribution from Individual Retirement Account
Dear Sir or Madam:
Please accept this letter as my request to...
23
Jan
Week in Review: Drake’s Bar Mitzvah, Japanese Anne Frank, Roe v. Wade Turns 41 and more!
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Israeli security forces said yesterday that it had thwarted a series of al-Qaeda plots to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and other targets, in what experts...
21
Jan
Moment Live // The Heart of Writing
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Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Alan Cheuse
On November 14, Moment fiction editor Alan Cheuse spoke with fellow writer Joyce Carol Oates at the Moment...