antisemitism Archives

14 Jun

2006 November-December, Uncategorized

How Jew-Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic Iran

March 28, 2022
By Robert S. Greenberger
7 comments

The complex tale of how the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great—the world’s “first” Zionist—metamorphosed into the Israel-Hating nation we know today. Abdol Hossein Sardari...

31 Jul

2012 July-August, Israel

Natan Sharansky: Act III, Scene I

June 1, 2017
By Daphna Berman
3 comments

Soviet Jewry’s leading man has had a career of many acts: dissident, politician and now, head of Israel’s Jewish Agency. Through them all, he has...

18 May

Book Review, Culture, Interview, Latest, Religion

The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over Park 51, the “Ground Zero Mosque”...

14 Mar

Culture, History, Religion, U.S. Politics

How Jerry Falwell Changed the Republican Party

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Jerry Falwell “stamped out” anti-Semitism in the Republican Party, said Michael Sean Winters, a reporter for the National Catholic Reporter—and no Falwell...

09 Jan

Culture

Katy Perry's Father Clears Up Confusion Over What Jews Smell Like

May 8, 2012
By Sala Levin
1 comment

Well, cross kabbalat Shabbat services off the list of things Katy Perry probably did last Friday night. The singer's father, Keith Hudson--an Ohio preacher--recently gave...

09 Jan

Culture

Katy Perry’s Father Clears Up Confusion Over What Jews Smell Like

January 9, 2012
By momentadmin
0 comments

Well, cross kabbalat Shabbat services off the list of things Katy Perry probably did last Friday night. The singer's father, Keith Hudson--an Ohio preacher--recently gave...

16 Nov

2011 March-April, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Jewish World

The Other Rosenbergs

December 14, 2023
By Nadine Epstein
1 comment

They had the wrong name at the wrong time in the wrong place. Moment investigates discrimination against Jews who worked for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in the wake of Julius Rosenberg’s arrest.

17 Aug

Uncategorized

Yizkor Education

August 17, 2011
By elisniv
5 comments

By Adina Rosenthal British historian Sir Ian Kershaw famously wrote: “The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference,” a sentiment that provides...

28 Jul

Culture, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

Should Jews Play Richard Wagner?

February 12, 2021
By Theodore Samets
4 comments

Richard Wagner, the lauded 19th-century German composer of operas such as Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, had an anti-Semitic streak. It was more than just a...

26 Jul

Uncategorized

Blame Canada (for Anti-Zionism)

July 26, 2011
By elisniv
5 comments

By Adina Rosenthal Canadian bacon isn’t the only thing that’s unkosher. Earlier this month, the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism (CPCCA), released its report concluding...

25 Jul

Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine, Religion

Prussian Blue Sings a New Tune

March 17, 2022
By elisniv
1 comment

By Steven Philp It has been five quiet years since Lamb and Lynx Gaede stepped out of the national spotlight—ending a short and controversial career as...

19 Jul

2011 July-August, Jewish Art, Culture and Music - Moment Magazine

From the Editor

August 9, 2017
By Nadine Epstein
0 comments

Why is Moment, a magazine of Jewish politics, culture and religion, devoting space to the Roma, especially when there are so many issues of direct interest to the Jewish people to explore?