From the Editor
As we enter the year 5774 on the Jewish calendar, I find myself thinking about where the world was 100 years ago
Ask the Rabbis | Women & Religion
Is Judaism good for women?
Opinion | Shmarya Rosenberg
Some New York politicians bend over backwards to accommodate Hasidic demands.
Opinion | Naomi Ragen
Since the recent elections, new laws are changing Israeli society for better and worse.
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?
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...