The White House has gone to great lengths trying to emphasize that the onus is now on Hamas and that it is now up to the terror group to prove that it is really interested in a cease-fire for the benefit of the Gazan people.
Moment
As we come to the end of this challenging year, Moment takes a look back at the stories that shaped the American Jewish conversation in 2023. From our coverage of Israeli democracy to American politics to the E-Street Band, here are Moment’s most-read stories 2023.
The crisis in the agricultural sector is acute, but inside the avocado trees, my head swims with green, with the bounty of this fruit.
Moment contributor Nathan Guttman explains the intricacies and fallouts of this week’s congressional testimony with university presidents Elizabeth Magill, Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth.
Moment
The October 7 Hamas attack showed that sex crimes are not absent from the modern battlefield.
The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza means that conversations may be especially fraught around the table this year, for multi-generational families of all types and especially for Jewish families.
Naomi Ragen
We have been reminded of all these things in the most horrible and heartbreaking way possible. October 7 was the most difficult and poisonous chemotherapy, but it has removed the cancer that was destroying us from within.
Jacob Forman
“Most people don’t think in those terms,” says Goldman; what is more powerful is “a sense that God has chosen the Jews, that God has made promises to the Jews, that those promises still hold and God is still delivering.”
On the sixteenth day of the war, I found hope in an underground parking garage.
Moment
If you want to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict, you need four things. You give me two of these things and I’ll give you a fighting chance to succeed.
