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Yerida: The downside of aliyah
Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel
Not long ago, I sat down with Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Moment co-founder Elie Wiesel for a heart-to-heart talk. In 2011, he...
What Does Judaism Say About Organ Donation?
Secular Humanism
For Humanistic Jews, there is no greater value than the sanctity of life. We honor the traditional notion of pikuah nefesh, the concept that...
Symposium: The Origins of Jewish Creativity
Moment talks with artists, scientists and scholars to illuminate the source of human creativity.
Interviews by Sarah Breger, Nadine Epstein, Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Sala Levin and...
Jews and the San Francisco Gold Rush
In the early 1850s, Adolph Sutro, a cocky young man with a thick walrus moustache, headed west to make his fortune. Originally from Prussia, Sutro...
Ask the Rabbis | What Are Our Obligations as Jews Toward the animals We Use, Live With or Eat?Â
What are our obligations as Jews toward the animals we use, live with or eat?
Opinion | Aluf Benn
Secular Israel is More Religious Than You Think – The new unity government lacks ultra-Orthodox representatives, but that does not mean that religion is being left out of the conversation.
Einstein and His God
At home in Berlin in April 1929, Albert Einstein received an urgent telegram from Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of New York: “Do you believe in...
Was Einstein a Jewish Saint?
As usual, Albert Einstein hadn’t dressed for the occasion.
Most of the 40 or so young men waiting for him that Friday night in January at...
Anat Hoffman Dares to Take On Israel’s Orthodox Establishment. Can She Win?
A visionary to some, a troublemaker to others, Anat Hoffman is leading the charge for women to be allowed to read the Torah at the Western Wall. The executive director of the Israel Reform Action Committee and spokesperson for Women of the Wall has become the face of the fight for religious freedom in Israel.
Sarah Posner: Why Abortion Is a Religious Freedom Issue
The beliefs of “Judeo-Christian” pro-lifers–aka the American Christian right–do not represent the Jewish theological position.
From the Editor
One could argue that Israel is the country where non-Orthodox Jews have the least religious freedom: They can’t marry, divorce or convert according to their...