14
Nov
Victories and Tensions in U.S. and Israeli Elections
Americans and Israelis went to the polls recently. Here’s how they’ll deal with the outcomes.
14
Nov
Spice Box | The Merger We Should Have Seen Coming.
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Moment
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The merger we should have seen coming.
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11
Nov
Book Review | Whose Biblical Law Is This, Anyway?
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Jack Reimer
In The Book of Revolutions, Edward Feld explores the different political traditions that shaped the Torah as we know it today.
11
Nov
Wisdom Project | Martin Katz, 95
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Pam Janis
Born in New York, Katz is the “uncle” of the birth control pill which catalyzed the sexual revolution and an avid sculptor.
11
Nov
From the Newsletter | How We’re Responding to Changes at Twitter
On October 27, Elon Musk became the new CEO of Twitter. It does not seem to be going well.
10
Nov
How We’re Responding to Twitter
On October 27, Elon Musk became the new CEO of Twitter. It does not seem to be going well.
08
Nov
Election Day 2022: Jewish Jokes Edition with Bill Novak
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There are some days when you just need to laugh! Take a break from pundits and their predictions to savor the fine wine of Jewish jokes. William Novak, co-editor of The Big Book of Jewish Humor, hosts an hour of Jewish humor, including a few jokes you’ve never heard before.
08
Nov
Bibi’s Back: Quick Reactions from Four Moment Contributors
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Moment reached out to three of our regular contributors to learn what the latest Israeli election results can teach us.
07
Nov
Moment Debate | In Embracing Hungary’s Orbán, Are American Conservatives Romancing an Antisemite?
Quite a few conservatives support Orbán.
07
Nov
Ask the Rabbis | How Would You Counsel a Parent and Child Who Are Estranged?
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I wouldn’t. Assuming the child in question is an adult, and depending on the degree to which the estrangement has festered, and barring cases of abuse, trying to heal such rifts is misplaced effort.
07
Nov
Book Review | Very, Very Dirty Money
The stories that David de Jong first reported for Bloomberg News and now recounts in his book Nazi Billionaires document the sordid embrace of the Nazi regime by Germany’s wealthiest industrial dynasties and those dynasties’ continued prosperity today.
07
Nov
Book Review | The Maus That Roared
The latest cycle of public panic over book-banning—as distinct from the constant, threatening drumbeat of book-banning itself—kicked off last January when The New York Times reported that a school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, had withdrawn Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel/memoir Maus: A Survivor’s Tale from the eighth-grade Holocaust education curriculum.