Ask the Rabbis // Refugees
What is our responsibility as Jews toward Syrian refugees?
What’s the Jewish Role in Black Lives Matter?
Jews have had a place in racial justice since the mid-20th century, when rabbis around the country stood by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. throughout his fight for civil rights. But now some are asking what the role of Jews should be in today’s national conversation about race.
Talk of the Table // Ethiopian Food
Ethiopian food, famous for its spicy stews and the spongy flatbread called injera, burst onto the international food scene—especially in the United States—in the 1970s and 1980s, when thousands of Ethiopians fled political turmoil in their home country.
If There Were One Thing You Could Change About The Israeli Rabbinate
A Moment Symposium // Interviews With Assaf Benmelech, Aaron Leibowitz, Rachel Levmore, Shlomo Riskin, Bambi Sheleg, David Stav, Adin Steinsaltz, Yedidia Stern, Diana Villa, Avi Weiss, Moshe Weiss, Dov Zakheim. Plus a comment by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s public intellectual no.1 has become its number-one defender of Jews—and democratic intervention around the world.
Opinion // Obama’s Distorted Views on Israel
by Peter Berkowitz The president’s quest for even-handedness is misguided and dangerous. peaking at Harvard University in October, Secretary of
Opinion // What Do We Mean By Jewish Continuity?
We all want Jewish grandchildren—but are we going about it the right way?
Opinion // Yitzhak Rabin’s Legacy Is Very Much Alive
If you think Israel’s “right” is “nationalistic” and the “left” wants “peace,” think again.
Q&A: Ethiopian-Israeli Holocaust Museum Volunteers
Three young Israelis of Ethiopian descent, part of a volunteer delegation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discuss “Israel at Heart,” a leadership program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) open to Ethiopian Israelis.
Religion & Violence // A Moment Symposium
Is there something about religion that is inherently violent, or is it a myth that religion leads to violence? And since much of the contemporary religious violence in the news is connected to Islam, is this a Muslim problem—or a broader human one? We posed these questions to a wide-ranging group of thinkers.
Opinion // The Rise of the Rebel Rabbis
Can a small group of Orthodox leaders shake up the Israeli rabbinate?
Ruth Wisse: Education of a Jewish Conservative
There are few more outspoken proponents of conservative ideas in North American Jewry today than Ruth Wisse: pioneer of the academic study of modern Jewish literature, longtime professor of Yiddish and Yiddish literature at McGill and Harvard, essayist, political commentator and author of a dozen books. In works such as If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews, Wisse argues that Jews must stop blaming themselves for the hatred, past and present, of Judaism and Jews.