03
Nov
Twenty Five Years After Yitzchak Rabin’s Assassination, Israel Remains Divided
"The incitement and rhetoric did not come from all sides. In Israel, incitement reads from right to left."
02
Nov
Final Moments of the 2020 Campaign
Hard to believe, but the elections do not center around the Jewish community, its anxieties, wishes and aspirations.
But this doesn’t mean that Jewish issues are off the table, or out of the stump speeches both candidates have been delivering in their endless rallies these past days.
20
Oct
Jewish Political Voices Project – Swing States and the Jewish Vote
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Moment
At a time when polls dominate, project founder Nadine Epstein and director Suzanne Borden review preliminary findings from Moment’s unique Jewish Political Voices Project, which has been following real people in real time in 10 swing states. We will also hear directly from participants including former Congresswoman Shelley Berkley from Nevada, Rabbi Dan Levin from Florida, Mark Goldhaber from North Carolina and Ruth Kantrowitz from Wisconsin. Also joining us is Chicago Sun Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet.
19
Oct
Book Interview: Isabel Wilkerson on Racism and Caste Systems
The title of her new book is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. It retells the history of American racism from slavery to segregation, from everyday indignities to the use of lethal force. Throughout, she strives to write not of whites and Blacks, but of the majority caste and the minority caste.
19
Oct
Would Trump Win an Israeli Election?
One of Donald Trump’s favorite lines when addressing Jewish American or Israeli listeners, is that if he ran for office in Israel, he’d get “98 percent” of the votes.
He’s not exaggerating by much.
16
Oct
The Contradictory History of Jewish Greek Life
For Jewish students, the “abolish Greek life” movements complicate a century-long history of identity-based social life.
30
Sep
#ChallahConnected : The Sisterhood of Instagram’s Challah Bakers
Challah is in its moment, having unseated sourdough as the baking task of the pandemic. Challah's “moment” has lasted centuries, but now it also helps us place ourselves in time, reminding us that it is Friday, as one unreal day flows into the next. We feel a sense of community, a reassuring rhythm as Shabbat approaches, knowing that in Jewish homes all around the world flour is being measured.
24
Sep
Are We Moving Towards a Better Society—or Regressing?
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In this challenging, chaotic time, there are moments when many of us, even optimists, fear that society is regressing.
22
Sep
The Woman Who Drove Old Dixie Down
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Dan Freedman
Eileen Filler-Corn, Virginia’s first female—and first Jewish—Speaker of the House of Delegates, is playing a key role in dismantling the state’s Confederate legacy, statue by statute.
22
Sep
Talk of the Table | Fasting for Body and Soul
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Lilly Gelman
Eitan Okun only eats between the hours of 8 and 10 p.m., or, on days when he rides his bike, from 6 to 8 p.m.
21
Sep
Smashing Idols, Then and Now
The demolition of a statue, the withdrawal of public adulation for the erstwhile hero the statue commemorates, has echoes of a fundamental Jewish principle: the injunction against graven images.