Kyiv Diary 8/2/22: A Scramble to Get Reborn at the Government Registry
As life in the capital of Ukraine, where we live, has slowly been restored, we decided to resume the process of updating our resident permits.
As life in the capital of Ukraine, where we live, has slowly been restored, we decided to resume the process of updating our resident permits.
As a kid, I was fascinated by the existence of Jews in remote places.
Based on Lukiškės Prison’s past, its present can be a little jarring.
A true survivor of a tragic life, Mila has to live through the war alone, either in fear or in isolation.
What really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy? Eve Fairbanks, former Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Fellow and author of the new book, The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning and Steve Friedman, political scientist at the University of Johannesburg and author of Race, Class and Power: Harold Wolpe and the Radical Critique of Apartheid, speak about the tumultuous three decades since the end of Apartheid, the role Jews played in ending Apartheid and the nation’s triumphs and ongoing troubles. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel, author of Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa.
The latest pro-Israel primary funding battle was another victory for AIPAC in Maryland. Next stop: Michigan. Is it good for the Jews?
Technology inexplicably fails us often enough that we need a word for the occasion.
Susan Coll, author of the novel Bookish People and Delia Ephron, screenwriter for movies like You’ve Got Mail and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and author of the memoir Left on Tenth: A Second Chance on Life, discuss the influence of love, loss and humor in the creative writing process. In conversation with Moment book & opinion editor Amy E. Schwartz. A special literary event celebrating the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest celebration.
The Montana Jewish Project hopes to purchase Temple Emanu-El—constructed in 1890 during a colorful, obscure chapter of Jewish history—from the Diocese of Helena.
I would like to address the question that has been hounding me for a long time: “Where is your Sephardic heritage?”