Short Fiction | ‘Niagara Falls’
The following story won First Place in the 2025 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, which was founded in 2000 to recognize authors of Jewish...
Spanish Pop Prodigy Rosalía Sings in 13 Languages on ‘LUX’—Including Hebrew
“One door isn’t enough,” a voice says at the end of “La Yugular,” a showstopping song on Spanish pop singer Rosalía’s new album, LUX. “A...
B’Ivrit | How Is the Israeli Media Covering Gaza Suffering?
Suddenly, there is a push to report on Gaza, but most reporters and editors still view it as siding with the enemy.
B’Ivrit | Israeli Media Shifts to Public Service Mode, but Is All the Israel-Iran News True?
Questions, doubts and any kind of polemic are left aside, at least for a while.
Jewish Word | Chaver: Friend or Lover?
“What are we, exactly?”
The Meaning of ‘Semicha’
How did a word that means "leaning" become the way to describe the act of becoming a rabbi?
From the Newsletter | Can Hebrew Be Gender-Neutral?
Holy or not, Hebrew has always been an evolving language.
Ask the Rabbis | Do People Become More Jewish as They Get Older?
We asked our team of rabbis to weigh in.
Jewish Word | When the Past Is Present and the Present Is Past
We Jews are obsessed with history. From ancient to modern times, from the Flood to the Exodus to the destruction of the Temples and the exiles, from the Middle Ages to the Inquisition and the pogroms to the Holocaust to the establishment of the State of Israel, we recall and retell our history.
Jewish Word | Emet
Suppose you’ve made a golem, a man-shaped figure of clay, and you want to bring it to life.
Italian Jews: Rome, the Renaissance and Beyond
A new museum in the medieval city of Ferrara illuminates more than two millennia of history. But it has yet to directly grapple with the Holocaust.
What I Learned by Teaching Hebrew to Asylum Seekers in Israel
When my friend Heidi Gleit asked last summer for volunteers to teach a weekly Hebrew reading-and-writing evening class to Eritrean and Darfurian asylum seekers in the Israeli town of Lod, I agreed immediately.