An empty Shabbat table stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 27, as a sober reminder of the plight of some 200 people kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
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Aaron David Miller shares his thoughts on the hostage situation, Hamas, Gaza, the West Bank, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, regional and international ramifications, and where he thinks this war is headed in the coming weeks.
Moment Institute Fellow Nathan Guttman takes a deep dive into how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting the Republican presidential campaign and how Biden’s response to the violence has shifted since the outbreak of war.
Now facing 23 federal charges, the New York Representative has made no indication he’ll resign, nor has he been keeping a low profile.
A look at the evolution of Hezbollah inside Lebanon’s fractured political system and Iran’s growing influence throughout the Middle East.
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An attempted coup in Germany. Holocaust denial in Poland. Conspiracy theories around Jewish figures in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
Sarah Breger
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A tattoo offers a means of protesting against one part of society while conforming to another. A young Israeli put it perfectly when he said, “I want a different tattoo, like everybody else.”
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Historian and Moment columnist Fania Oz-Salzberger, coauthor of the book Jews and Words with her father Amos Oz, talks about how she and other Israelis are coping with the dramatic upheavals of the past two weeks, her personal experience, her hopes and fears for Israel, and how she processes what she is experiencing and decides what to share in her writing.
No country could be expected to forgo retaliation for attacks on innocent citizens in its own territory. But what are the long-term goals?
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Join Merrifield Papp, author of the memoir Public/Private: My Life with Joe Papp at The Public Theater, and longtime friends Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody for a conversation about “how The Public Theater became a transformative beacon for social change and of the couple who created it,” and the Yiddishkeit that bonded Papp, Patinkin and Grody.
