Exhibit Highlights Zionism’s German Roots
Herzl was one of the most important figures in the Zionist movement, but he was far from the first to call for a Jewish homeland.
TEN WAYS TO INVEST IN ISRAEL
Today there are myriad ways to support Israel. Here are ten ways to get started.
Opinion // Agreeing to Disagree
There is no reason for the Jewish community to be monolithic in our opinions.
Q&A: Explaining Israel’s Wave of Violence
Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, on how the violence began and what can be done to quell it.
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.
‘Oriented’ Examines What it Means to be Gay and Palestinian in Israel
Two years ago Jake Witzenfeld, a new Jewish Tel Aviv transplant from England, discovered Qambuta Productions—a fresh, subversive and artistic Palestinian voice on YouTube that uses parody to illustrate social and political issues in the Arab community.
How The First World War Changed Jewish History
Professor Daniel Schwartz on how fears of Jewish disloyalty fueled deportations and massacres in Eastern Europe during and after the war, how the Jewish Legion helped conquer Ottoman Palestine for the British, and why World War I was a turning point for European Jewry.
Listen: Moment’s 90th Birthday Celebration for Theodore Bikel
“I hope to inspire quite a lot of people, because I have not only one but a number of legacies
40th Anniversary Symposium: Wisdom for the Next Generation
with Robert Aumann, Theodore Bikel, Leon Fleisher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jerome Groopman, Ruth Gruber, Fanya Heller, Madeleine Kunin, Walter Laqueur,
Does Divestment Divide Jewish Students From Their Peers?
by Anna Isaacs Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a story about the popularity of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
Opinion // The Israeli Rabbinate: The Origin Story
by Elli Fischer Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the British military and Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, all played a