An Interview with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt
“Antisemitism is like the canary in the coal mine of democracy,” says the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism.
“Antisemitism is like the canary in the coal mine of democracy,” says the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism.
Returning the women of the Hanukkah story to the spotlight.
Lipstadt is the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism and Moment’s 2022 RGB Human Rights Award.
The story of Hanukkah, the annual festival of Maccabean might and miracles, doesn’t talk much about women, although two are occasionally associated with the holiday.
If as rabbinic sages say, an angel touches us before we are born and causes us to forget all the Torah we have learned in the womb, then we arrive in the world ravenous to learn.
Moment Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein shares her fantasy guest list for a Women’s Equality Day dinner party.
In a recent article in School Library Journal, news editor Kara Yorio observes that for a long time, “[children’s] books about Jewish people or by Jewish authors fit into two categories: the Holocaust and holidays,” while Jewish secondary characters often seemed stereotyped.
Jewish American Heritage Month is an ideal time to introduce young readers to notable Jewish figures in American history, and a number of recently released books can help.