The Confessions of a Zionist’s Grandson
It was a bonding experience, both sweet and sad, like all loss.
Mood | In Israel, October Never Ended
Israel editor Eetta Prince-Gibson weighs in on Israel’s current mood, and the heaviness of feeling stuck in the past.
Texas to Execute Jewish Man on World Day Against the Death Penalty
When Michael Zoosman first reached out to Jedidiah Murphy in 2021, he knew very little about his soon-to-be pen pal other than that he had been on death row in Livingston, Texas, for 20 years and that he was a practicing Jew.
Opinion | Covid Is Ripping Israel Apart
When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried.
Opinion | Indifference Is Complicity
In writing about the unspeakable mass atrocities targeting the Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China, I’m reminded of the words of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and conscience of humanity, that “silence in the face of evil is complicity with evil itself”—and that, as he would remind us again and again, “Indifference always means coming down on the side of the victimizer, never on the side of the victim.”
NGO Monitor Responds
By Naftali Balanson, NGO Monitor (From the July/August Issue of Moment)
Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s uncritical piece on the Israeli NGO known as Breaking the Silence, or...