Moment
The tragic anniversary and a new documentary on the Tree of Life attack check the current pulse of antisemitism in America.
The proposed plan would change the balance of power between Israeli politicians and the legal system, and also could be a “get out of jail free” card for Netanyahu.
Moment
A postdoc’s archival research unearthed a 70-year-old memo, which led Stanford University to apologize for past antisemitic admissions policies.
Fallon Roth
These riots weren’t about religious or even nationalistic fervor. They were a desperate expression of hopelessness and rage by Jerusalemites.
What’s behind the timing of Trump’s latest rant about the American Jewish community?
Moment
All over the country Jews are reconnecting with the land, and some would say the Jewish farming movement is stronger than ever. Wendy Rhein, who bought a 10-acre farm she named Chutzpah Hollow in North Carolina and moved there with her sons in 2021, is one of them. Wendy shares why and how she created a thriving and growing Jewish farm and Adrienne Krone, who has studied Jewish American farms, discusses the movement today and the history of Jewish farming. In conversation with Moment digital editor Noah Phillips, an alum of Urban Adamah, a Jewish farm community in Berkeley, CA.
Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the wealthiest and most influential Jews of the 19th century, but his name is largely forgotten.
Pam Janis
At 97, veteran journalist and Moment senior editor Eileen Lavine is still uplifted by gratitude, and uplifting others.
My father couldn’t believe the numbers of dead during the Holocaust. Today, struggling with news of Ukraine, I must say “Hineni.”
