From Bullet to Bullhorn
How does a parent survive the death of a child?
Honey: How Sweet (and Holy) It Is
Honey is potent stuff in the Jewish world. Since ancient times, it has been a powerful trope for love, hope and promise, and it is the key ingredient of the iconic honey cake, which retains its High Holiday status to this day.
Q&A: David Gregory on Finding His Faith
David Gregory talks interfaith marriage, Shabbat martinis, and what’s next.
Wooing American Jews on the Iran Deal: A Timeline
The outreach since April has included a stream of conference calls and meetings.
A Great Civil Rights Partnership: A Moment Photo Symposium
A Moment photo symposium in honor of the struggle for racial equality.
Q&A With Leon Wieseltier
On Jewish literature, Israel, digitization, freedom of expression and the pleasures of being insulted.
Opinion // The Return of the Welfare Debate
The Jewish argument against turning a blind eye to fraud
Sacks: What Is Anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is the least creative thing you can think of and the most destructive. But in a sense, anti-Semitism survives because of a weird and dangerous kind of creativity. Let me explain why.
40th Anniversary Symposium: Wisdom for the Next Generation
with Robert Aumann, Theodore Bikel, Leon Fleisher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jerome Groopman, Ruth Gruber, Fanya Heller, Madeleine Kunin, Walter Laqueur,
Theater Review // Fish In The Dark
by Daniel Ross Goodman “Humility is not thinking less of yourself,” said C.S. Lewis, “but thinking of yourself less.” But
Book Review // The Life of Saul Bellow
As he lay dying, Saul Bellow, “the most decorated writer in American history,” slipped back into consciousness, looked up, and asked, “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” Somewhere within that sentence lies Bellow’s greatness as a novelist—his fabulous sense of wonder and entitlement about himself, coupled with a magical gift for language and a rattling insecurity. This is what Zachary Leader writes about in his doggedly detailed and adoring biography of Bellow.