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...
Moment Gala 2023: Civil Rights Strategist Eric K. Ward
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Moment's Inspirational and Leadership Award was presented to Eric K. Ward, Executive Vice President of Race Forward, at the Moment Awards Gala 2023.Sign up for...
Opinion | Breaking the Silence on Hamas’s War Crimes Against Women
The October 7 Hamas attack showed that sex crimes are not absent from the modern battlefield.
Tough Talk at Thanksgiving
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.
Opinion | What This Jew is Learning From This War
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.
A Sign of the Times
“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.”
Opinion | When Government Leaves a Void
On the sixteenth day of the war, I found hope in an underground parking garage.
Interview | Let’s Say Israel Can Destroy Hamas. Then What?
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.
Keeping the Hostages Front and Center
An empty Shabbat table stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on Friday, October 27, as a sober reminder of the plight of some 200 people kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
The GOP’s Pro-Israel Fest
Moment Institute Fellow Nathan Guttman takes a deep dive into how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting the Republican presidential campaign and how Biden’s response to the violence has shifted since the outbreak of war.
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...
Dispatch | Tensions Rise for Palestinians in East Jerusalem
Though rockets have fallen in Palestinian neighborhoods on the outskirts of Jerusalem, public shelters are nearly nonexistent in East Jerusalem.