A Granddaughter’s Shocking Discovery
by Emily Shwake Rita Gabis comes from two identities: Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. For much of Gabis’s life,
by Emily Shwake Rita Gabis comes from two identities: Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. For much of Gabis’s life,
Lev returns from the park eager for breakfast. He pulls his chair across the tired linoleum and calls out, “Won’t you join me? Your show can wait.” He hates the way he sounds, like a grown man coaxing a cat from a tree…
What is our responsibility as Jews toward Syrian refugees?
Jews have had a place in racial justice since the mid-20th century, when rabbis around the country stood by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. throughout his fight for civil rights. But now some are asking what the role of Jews should be in today’s national conversation about race.
Ethiopian food, famous for its spicy stews and the spongy flatbread called injera, burst onto the international food scene—especially in the United States—in the 1970s and 1980s, when thousands of Ethiopians fled political turmoil in their home country.
A Moment Symposium // Interviews With Assaf Benmelech, Aaron Leibowitz, Rachel Levmore, Shlomo Riskin, Bambi Sheleg, David Stav, Adin Steinsaltz, Yedidia Stern, Diana Villa, Avi Weiss, Moshe Weiss, Dov Zakheim. Plus a comment by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau
France’s public intellectual no.1 has become its number-one defender of Jews—and democratic intervention around the world.
by Peter Berkowitz The president’s quest for even-handedness is misguided and dangerous. peaking at Harvard University in October, Secretary of
We all want Jewish grandchildren—but are we going about it the right way?
If you think Israel’s “right” is “nationalistic” and the “left” wants “peace,” think again.
Three young Israelis of Ethiopian descent, part of a volunteer delegation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discuss “Israel at Heart,” a leadership program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) open to Ethiopian Israelis.
Is there something about religion that is inherently violent, or is it a myth that religion leads to violence? And since much of the contemporary religious violence in the news is connected to Islam, is this a Muslim problem—or a broader human one? We posed these questions to a wide-ranging group of thinkers.