Opinion | Plundered Palestinian Pastures
Imagine you live in a rural area out West and your neighbors keep trying to drive you off your land.
Opinion | The Jewish Obligation to Ukraine
“Europe is just a graveyard for me,” my Shabbat host told me. Is the history of Jews in Ukraine relevant for Israel’s refugee policy today?
Moment Memoir | Certify Me Normal
I tried for years to convince my mother that something was wrong with her. Five sessions with a psychiatrist later, I grew to understand.
Book Review | The Evolution of Tyranny
Thirty years ago, as the Soviet Union was coming apart and its hold on Eastern Europe was loosening, democracy appeared ascendant not just in Europe but worldwide. For advocates of democratic government, the 20th century concluded on a triumphant note. Today that note is a distant, barely audible signal from a bygone era.
The Wisdom Project | Dieter Gruen
Dieter Gruen, 99, shares his life experiences as a scientist, from working on the Manhattan Project during WWII to solar power today.
What Would God Say? A Comedy Date with David Javerbaum and Michael Krasny
How would God spin 21st-century problems? Emmy award-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum, former head writer and executive producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, has a few ideas! Javerbaum serves as “God’s ghost writer” in his new book, The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity’s Total Failure and is a veteran of other “God collaborations”—the Broadway show An Act of God and the popular twitter account @TheTweetofGod. He is in conversation with Michael Krasny, an award-winning journalist and retired public radio host of KQED Forum and the author of Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means. Come prepared to laugh your heart out!
Israel’s Dissolving Government: An Explainer
One year and one week after its swearing-in, the Bennett-Lapid government in Israel has come to a screeching halt.
The Politics of Being Gay with Congressman Barney Frank, Eric Orner and Ann F. Lewis
Barney Frank was the first member of Congress to voluntarily acknowledge being gay in 1987. Frank will join his former congressional aide, Eric Orner, author of the new graphic novel Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank, in conversation about his lifelong crusade for civil rights and his 30+ years in the U.S. House of Representatives. With Ann F. Lewis, a champion for women’s rights, a former White House Director of Communications, and the congressman’s sister.
From the Newsletter | Gun Rights and Judaism
This widespread violence is a national crisis with cultural, political and spiritual dimensions.
From the Newsletter | Remembering A.B. Yehoshua
Yehoshua died on Tuesday at the age of 85, and it’s hard not to feel we are nearing the end of an era.
How Social Media has Spread and Normalized Conspiracy Theories with Ambassador Karen Kornbluh, Sarah Posner and Jessica Reaves
Who can forget the white supremacists who marched through the streets of Charlottesville, VA chanting “Jews will not replace us!”? Or the Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect, who cited the “great replacement” conspiracy theory in his manifesto, among other antisemitic and racist memes. Ambassador Karen Kornbluh, senior fellow and director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund and Jessica Reaves, director of Content and Editorial Strategy for the ADL Center on Extremism, will be in conversation with journalist Sarah Posner, author of UNHOLY: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump, to discuss how social media has spread and normalized this dangerous theory. This program is part of a Moment series on antisemitism supported by the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation.
Witness to a Massacre: The Kamianets-Podilskyi Experiment
The Germans killed 23,600 Jews at Kamianets-Podilskyi. Photos secretly taken by Gyula Spitz documented their final march.