A Visit to Tantura
by Stephen Stern Harsh legacies and uncertain memories of 1948 entangle two families at the heart of The Admission, a
by Stephen Stern Harsh legacies and uncertain memories of 1948 entangle two families at the heart of The Admission, a
FEATURES THE ADELSON EFFECT Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is best known in the United States for his outsized contributions on
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is best known in the United States for his outsized contributions to Republican presidential candidates. But in Israel, where he owns two newspapers, he may wield far more influence.
Moment asks a wide range of scholars, activists and religious leaders to suggest if and how religious pluralism and the chief rabbinate can coexist
by Melvin Dow Considering the numerous reviews written from divergent viewpoints, one might reasonably conclude that everything worth saying about
We recently caught up with Ruchama King Feuerman, whose story “A Beggar’s Place” was our 2011 second-place winner. Since then,
Some prominent Jewish families believe they are descended from Israel’s greatest monarch. Can DNA testing prove what their family trees have long shown?
FEATURES PROFILE PROFESSOR OF DISBELIEF [subscribe to read] Preeminent scholar and best-selling author James Kugel explains how his Orthodox faith
When I was a teenager, there was a legend repeated in the Jewish schools of my hometown. If you somehow manage to get into godless Harvard, don’t go. But if, against your rosh yeshiva and rebbe’s advice, you actually go, whatever you do, don’t take biblical scholar James Kugel’s class. If you do, you’ll walk into Introduction to the Bible, see that the professor is wearing a yarmulke and assume the course is kosher. And, the story goes, you’ll walk out a heretic.
How should we view the complicated history of Lydda and what it means for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela roamed widely across the medieval world, from Narbonne to Cairo, meeting Rabbanites and Karaites along the way.
Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Alan Cheuse On November 14, Moment fiction editor Alan Cheuse spoke with fellow