22
Jul
Where Does This J Street Go?
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Sala Levin
by Theodore Samets
Summer is a time for sales. It’s a time for vacations. It’s a time to escape work in the afternoon to get to...
20
Jul
We, the (Arab) People
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elisniv
By Aarian Marshall
Like many people my age, I watched the Arab Spring on CNN, from my university’s Student Campus Center. Sometimes, someone would change the...
19
Jul
A Declaration of Ignorance
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By Steven Philp
Republican or Democrat, American Jews inherit a history of progressiveness concerning issues of race and religion. Yet a pledge released by the conservative...
19
Jul
From the Editor
Why is Moment, a magazine of Jewish politics, culture and religion, devoting space to the Roma, especially when there are so many issues of direct interest to the Jewish people to explore?
19
Jul
118 Days in Iran’s Evin Prison
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Moment
Iranian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari was always fascinated by Jewish history and culture. His torturers made him pay for it.
19
Jul
Yael Naim: A New Soul Comes of Age
When New Soul peaked at number seven on the Billboard charts, Yael Naim became the first Israeli soloist to have a top-ten music hit in the United States. Four years later, the star of the Paris-based musician continues to rise.
18
Jul
Glenn Beck’s Wet Hot Israeli Summer
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By Adina Rosenthal
Glenn Beck is making quite a splash in the Jewish state this summer. This August, Beck will host “Restoring Courage,” a three-part event...
17
Jul
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17
Jul
Roma Life Today
Since the mid-1970s and early 1980s, Roma activists and groups such as the International Romani Union and Roma National Congress have worked to transform the scattered Roma into a cohesive political force. Nevertheless, the Roma remain fragmented and continue to face social exclusion, extreme poverty and discrimination.
17
Jul
Roma in the Holocaust
What Jews call the Holocaust, the Roma (also known as gypsies) call Porrajmos, their “devouring.” Between 220,000 and 500,000 Roma were murdered by Nazi Germany and its sympathizers during World War II. Despite the enormity of these numbers, the Roma experience during the Holocaust is not widely known, even among the Roma themselves.
17
Jul
Invisible Roma
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Ben Judah
Tied together through Romani, their mother tongue, and loosely organized in insular tribes, the Roma have traditionally served as craftsmen, musicians or seasonal hired hands, and have a reputation throughout Europe as thieves and swindlers. In an era when Europe’s birth rates have fallen to record lows, their numbers are exploding.
17
Jul
Is There Life After Death? Jewish Thinking on the Afterlife
Ask Jews what happens after death, and many will respond that the Jewish tradition doesn’t say or doesn’t care. But not so fast. When Moment asked an array of prominent Jewish thinkers, artists, writers and other doers to tell us what they think they’re headed for, the range was extraordinary.