Gelt-y Pleasures for All Ages
In the story of Hanukkah—the cruel reign of Antiochus, the unlikely victory of Mattathias and his sons, the one cruse of sacred oil left in the plundered Temple that burned for eight days—there is no mention of money.
Israel and I: A Love/Hate Relationship
The Donald Trump victory is not only highly distressing to me as an American; it is troublesome because it portends to render peace in my beloved Israel more distant than ever.
Fiction // Turboatom
I wanted to tell my father that the fish salad was shining, but he was asleep, calling my name in long somniloquous moans. I stood at his bedside, the shape of our room made visible by the scarce lights of the Marshal Zhukov Street. Slava! My name rose from his lungs…
How to Move Forward After Trump’s Victory? Look to Israeli Elections
At least three times, I’ve taken a brief nap on an election night, relieved and reassured that the leader I believed in was about to be elected, only to be devastated as the sun came up.
Spread Hummus, Not Hate: A Call for Peace
The stickers read “Spread Hummus, Not Hate.” On the American University quad Oct. 20, people wore them as a reminder that we all have a part in conflict resolution.
Opinion // Donald Trump and the Diaspora
Jews who are one-issue voters hurt Israel, as well as America.
Opening a Pandora’s Box of Hate
Moment editors Look Back at Presidential Campaign Season 2016. There were an uncomfortable number of Jewish moments, some of which constituted outright anti-Semitism…
Book Review // Judas
Amos Oz’s novel Habesorah Al Pi Yehudah (The Gospel According to Judas), translated by his longtime collaborator, Nicholas de Lange, under the title Judas, opens in the winter of 1959-60, when the life of Shmuel Ash, a graduate student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is turned upside down…
Opinion // A Match Made for Divorce
Turkey and Israel this summer formally ended a six-year-long deep freeze in relations, and Turkish-Israeli ties are again flourishing. But there is reason to worry that it won’t be like the good old days…
Opinion // The Western Wall: A Grand Distraction
This fall, the issue of who can worship in what way at the Western Wall returned to the Israeli Supreme Court. In January, the Cabinet had approved a compromise: The area for prayer at the sacred site would be expanded southward…
Opinion // A Prescription for Group Therapy
I’m a groupie. Not the kind who stalks rock stars but the kind who, when intensely interested in an issue, feels compelled either to join a group or to start one. It strikes me, in the wake of this bruising political year, as a felicitous habit…
Book Review // Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism and Delegitimizing Israel
At the end of the 19th century, European liberals and Zionists developed diametrically opposite strategies for dealing with the menace posed by anti-Semitism. Committed to the full integration of the Jews into the diverse societies in which they lived, the liberals tried to combat Jew-hatred through education and political action…