Books That Shaped Great Authors
We asked 20 prominent Jewish authors to discuss the books that shaped them.
We asked 20 prominent Jewish authors to discuss the books that shaped them.
When I started at Moment more than six years ago, I quickly gravitated toward the magazine’s books section. It wasn’t long before every review copy of a new book that arrived at the office landed on my desk.
Located just outside Jerusalem’s old city walls, Mount Zion is home to King David’s tomb, the room of the last supper and a former mosque. Today, a tangle of neglectful Israeli authorities has allowed the site to become a beacon for ultra-nationalist religious Jews.
“My name is Louise Lawrence Israëls and I am a survivor of the Holocaust.”
Journalist Graciela Mochkofsky discusses her account of unlikely faith in a drug violence-riddled Colombian city.
Today, Jewish communities around the world are commemorating Yom HaShoah, the international Holocaust memorial day. Thomas Siurkus, a volunteer from
Will beets, avocados, wild rice or mushrooms make an appearance on your Seder plate this Passover?
The Passover seder is one of Judaism’s most simultaneously stable and mutable traditions: There are universally agreed-upon aspects of the ritual (the four questions, the bitter herb, the four cups of wine), and yet there are many variations
In August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri erupted in protests after the death of Michael Brown, while thousands of miles away, war raged in Israel and Gaza. From this confluence of events emerged a new movement of black-Palestinian solidarity. How did this alliance come to be?
And it’s not enough that Bernie is Jewish. by Letty Cottin Pogrebin eople keep asking Jewish feminists like me which
by Andrew Michaels For students with religious dietary obligations, be they kosher, halal, or religious vegetarians, going to college can
“We are facing a very serious situation.”