From the Newsletter | Is Context Everything?
When I started doing interviews for the winter issue’s “Moment Debate” on the question “Should students be disciplined for chanting, ‘From the river to the...
From the Newsletter | A Wise Person Once Said…What Exactly?
“Listening is much more important than speaking.” Participants in Moment’s Wisdom Project, which highlights stories of those lucky enough to have lived long Jewish lives, share their words of wisdom and pieces of advice as the year comes to an end.
From the Newsletter | Stop Drawing Lines in the Sand
I am always amazed at the power of one assassination or violent act to upend the fragile progress of humanity—in particular the painstaking work of...
From the Newsletter | The Arsenal of Memory
I was WhatsApping with a friend in Israel earlier this week and we were talking about the popularity of the Rachel Edri story. In case...
From the Newsletter | Anything but Normal
October 7, 2023, is a day we will never forget. As one of our U.S.-based editors remarked in a meeting, “It feels like 9/11,” except...
From the Newsletter | Is Elon Musk Really Going to Sue the ADL?
By now it shouldn’t surprise anyone when Elon Musk makes an attention-grabbing announcement on social media.
His posts on X (formerly Twitter) are a cascade of...
From the Newsletter | What Would Golda Think of Israel Today?
"It's not a biopic," Guy Nattiv, the director of the new film Golda told me when we spoke before the film's premiere. “It's not Gandhi.”...
From the Newsletter | When the State Serves Death
This week, Moment covers two planned executions.
In October 2018, Robert Bowers killed 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg, PA, the deadliest...
Is Ice Cream Good for the Jews?
If ice cream is actually good for you, that’s just the latest of a heap of reasons to eat dairy on the upcoming Shavuot holiday.
Is Holocaust Education Feeding Antisemitism?
Some say efforts to educate children of all backgrounds about the most evil result of antisemitism may actually be fueling.
Meir Shalev’s Distinctive Israeli Voice
Though Shalev is gone, he deserves a wider reading in America.
Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Goes Deep
provides funding to journalists to cover what is often unseen—the workings of prejudice and bigotry.