November/December Issue 2023
MAGAZINE November/December Issue 2023 SUBSCRIBE DONATE BACK ISSUES NEWSLETTER FEATURES Keepers of the Diagnostic Keys BY DAN FREEDMAN Essay |
A Sign of the Times
“Most people don’t think in those terms,” says Goldman; what is more powerful is “a sense that God has chosen the Jews, that God has made promises to the Jews, that those promises still hold and God is still delivering.”
Opinion Interview with Dina Porat | Do Israelis Want Revenge?
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institution’s senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chops—the moral authority, if you will—to poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche.
Interview | The Perilous State of Our World Order
It’s a truism of geopolitics that disorder somewhere breeds disorder elsewhere.
Essay | The Stolen Beam
In South Dakota, Jewish homesteaders made their fortune on land the Lakota Nation once called home. One of their descendants explores what a process of repair and repentance might look like.
Jewish Word | The Twisted Path of the Word ‘Genocide’
Since October 7 and the subsequent Israel-Hamas war, the word genocide has been used liberally by parties on both sides of the conflict.
From the Newsletter | Anne Applebaum, Dorit Beinisch and More!
More than 250 guests came together Sunday night at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC, to support Moment at our
Unprecedented Interest in DC March for Israel
Moment Institute Fellow Nathan Guttman explores the week’s most recent political topics in the Jewish world—cease-fires in Israel, public opinion on the Israel-Gaza war, and historical examples that can help us understand what is happening in the world today.
The Rise of Antisemitism since October 7th with Ira N. Forman and Sarah Breger
Join Ira N. Forman, former U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism for an important conversation about the current state of antisemitism around the globe since October 7th.
Opinion | The Campus Conundrum
Antisemitism, like Islamophobia—charges of which have been similarly made by Muslim and Arab students on a number of campuses—should be calculated by actual, violent incidents on campuses, not by unverifiable threats, or perceived feelings of being threatened.
Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, an Anti-Jewish Pogrom, and the U.S. State Department
The Americans soon forgot the turmoil in the streets of Munich in the fall of 1923. The Jews of Munich did not.
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