n the weeks immediately following the 1967 Six-Day War, I was part of a contingent of international civilian volunteers—mostly Jews—sent from Jerusalem to El Arish, in northern Sinai. It was a mission that marked my life indelibly, and left me with a debt it has...
On September 24, 1950, Israel concluded Operation Magic Carpet, transporting over 45,000 Yemenite Jews to the Jewish state. To commemorate this historic mission, Moment has republished Zion Ozeri's 1982 photo essay "The Yemenites." Take a look for a deeper understanding of Jewish life in Yemen...
Every autumn, Jews all over the world read the Torah portion Lech Lecha, in which God instructs the future patriarch Abraham to abandon his native land for a promised one...
HBO’s historical miniseries about the largest nuclear disaster in human history, created by Jewish writer-producer Craig Mazin, is absolutely gripping....
On the island of Rhodes, a community that existed in the old town for 2,300 years was nearly wiped out in a single day: July 23, 1944....
Throughout his eighty-five years, Thomas Buergenthal has experienced justice from all angles. He has been deprived of it, reclaimed it, fought for it for others, and worked to strengthen it worldwide....
When Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York used the term “concentration camp” last week to describe the current situation on the U.S. southern border, she sparked a vicious debate that became less about the crisis at the border and more about what the term...
The fifth of the Ten Commandments is “honor thy father and thy mother,” and in the Jewish tradition, fatherly responsibilities are certainly honorable....