Reader-Submitted Stories of Jews and Civil Rights
In honor of the yearlong anniversary of America’s historic Civil Rights Movement, Moment is collecting and sharing stories about Jews’ role in the
Steve Greenberg: How Orthodox Jews Changed Their Minds On Gay Rights
Same-sex rights proponents suffered an unusual loss this week when a federal judge in Louisiana upheld the state’s ban on gay
Book Review // The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews
At the very beginning of his probing, disturbing account of the Nazis’ destruction of Dutch Jewry, Bernard Wasserstein asks what is no doubt the most terrible question that can be posed about Jewish behavior during the Holocaust: “Confronting the absolute evil of Nazism, was there any middle road between outright resistance and abject submission?”
Jews and Civil Rights Stories: An Interfaith Rally, and a Freedom Ride
In honor of the yearlong anniversary of America’s Civil Rights Movement, Moment is collecting and sharing stories about Jews and Civil
Review: “Punk Jews” Chronicles Modern Misfits
Every strand of Judaism has its misfits: A collection of individuals who imagine themselves within a particular Jewish community while expressing themselves outside of its rules. Even amongst the insular, strictly structured Orthodox communities there are the hidden black sheep who get swallowed by louder hums. These are the Punk Jews.
Book Review // The Story of the Jews
The great Jewish historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, who died in 2009, famously declared that history was “the faith of fallen Jews.” Yerushalmi had trained under the preeminent 20th-century Jewish historian Salo Baron, whose epic (and unfinished) 18-volume A Social and Religious History of the Jews was celebrated for its paradigm-shifting rejection of the “lachrymose” view of Jewish history. Despite a life lived in the shadow of Jewish history’s most lachrymose moment—both his parents were murdered in the Holocaust—Baron insisted that Jewish history was defined not by dying but by living, by the astonishing creativity and vitality of an ever-changing Jewish culture.
Opinion: Jews and Latinos, an Alliance Built on Shared Values
There is a growing political alliance between Latinos and Jews in America – but it’s not for the reasons some
Sarah Posner | Israel’s Best Friends or Jews’ Mortal Enemies?
Are messianic Jews good for Israel?
Moment Mythbusters: Jews and Pets
Today, the question of whether Jews dislike domestic pets may seem preposterous.
Book Review | Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
How to Be Black and Jewish Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press 2013, $29.95, pp. 232 Tudor Parfitt’s last book, Search
Florida’s Jews
Florida’s Palm Beach County has long been considered a bastion of liberalism, but the now-infamous $50,000-a-plate Romney fundraiser hosted by
Is There a Future for Tunisia’s Jews?
Tunisia is one of the success stories of the Arab spring. But can its Jews—who have lived in relative peace