Twitter Explained | A Productive Thread About Holocaust Education
“I’m sure any proud member of Jewish Twitter felt similarly disheartened when they saw that both ‘Holocaust’ and ‘Anne Frank’ were trending before 9 a.m.”
From the Editor | Toppling Monuments in our Hearts and Minds
Can we confront the future without reckoning with the past?
From the Editor | Summer 2020
I have always been exhilarated by anything that gives me a chance to touch another time, past or future, even for an instant.
Moment Anniversary | A Mirror of Jewish American History
In his editor’s note in the May 1975 inaugural issue of Moment, Fein set out the magazine’s mandate “that Moment will help raise the sense of Jewish possibility, hence also raise Jewish aspirations.”
Yom Hashoah—In Search of a Nameless Aunt
“Even after all these years, I find it soul wrenching that so many people, with names known and unknown, perished in the great withering of humanity known as the Shoah.”
Go Forth and Invite: Passover Message to Jewish Community From Moment
In an April 6 press release, Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein called on the Jewish community to tackle anti-Semitism and the coronavirus at the same time by using the unexpected freedom of virtual seders to invite people of other faiths to join. She shared a similar message in The Washington Post’s just-published opinion piece on Passover.
Pew Survey Reveals Americans’ Limited Holocaust Knowledge
Less than half of Americans can answer basic questions about the Holocaust, according to a new Pew Research Center report.
Documentary ‘Who Will Write Our History?’ Tells Stunning, Little-Known Holocaust Story
Documentary filmmaker Roberta Grossman is obsessed with the Holocaust, always has been. Its ever-present evil—the ultimate “rift in humanity,” she says—just won’t let go. “It’s not that I can’t pull away from it, but rather why others can.” So she asserts on the phone from her home in Los Angeles. Producer Nancy Spielberg (yes, Steven’s sister), with whom Grossman collaborated on the Holocaust documentary Who Will Write Our History, is participating in the conversation from her New York home. Their film, which has already been screened at various festivals worldwide, will make its television debut on the Discovery Channel on January 26 at 3 p.m. The telecast is part of Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations. It’s also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Ask the Rabbis | Is Silence Consent?
On the one hand, we have the Talmudic legal adage: “Silence is like a confession”
Primo Levi’s Work Outshines His Murky Death
In the years since his death, scholars, biographers and those who knew him remain split.
Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg’s debuts ‘Tzedek Collar’ on First Monday
Washington, DC–October 8, 2019—Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wore the ‘Tzedek Collar’, a gift commissioned for her by Moment Magazine on