Will the Pandemic Change Where We Choose to Live?
If you’re dreaming about a little house in the woods right now, you’re not crazy. You’re practical.
14
May
08
May
Share Your Homemade Challah with Moment!
Do you have your own favorite challah recipe? How about some baking tips and tricks you *swear* guarantee perfect loaves every time? Share them in the comments and spread your wisdom to the rest of us challah-lovers.
27
Apr
Locked Down No More?
At this point, the restrictions are being eased—and Israelis are becoming increasingly doubtful that we should be taking the remaining restrictions seriously.
23
Apr
Beshert | What is Meant to Be Meaningful
“The Rabbis do not teach us to praise or to thank God for the bad. Praise and thanks for suffering is a game for masochists and fools. We are only taught to bless the Eternal, to humbly bend our knees and to present this gift of our understanding to the Holy One, Blessed Be.”
22
Apr
Milan Jewish Community United to Battle COVID-19
In the days leading up to the lockdown, the Milanese Jewish community behaved “like good soldiers,” Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, director of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDEC), tells Moment, respecting public health ordinances and avoiding scenes reminiscent of those coming out of Brooklyn and Bnei Brak of minyanim gone rogue.
20
Apr
Will We Vote by Mail Because of the Virus?
If people don’t feel safe going to the polling station, or if large gatherings and close contact are still deemed dangerous, why not allow all voters to fulfill their civic duty through the mail?
14
Apr
Interview: Geraldine Brooks on Lessons From the ‘Plague Village’
“Any sacrifice to save human life is, by definition, vital.”
14
Apr
COVID-19 Disrupts European Jewish Life
Though the number of Jewish births in the UK has outpaced the number of deaths since 2006, the community continues to skew older. Those over 60 are at a far higher risk of becoming sick or dying from the coronavirus. In addition, the majority of British Jews live in and around London, where the outbreak in Britain has been most pronounced. The city remains weeks away, reports suggest, from the coronavirus’s peak.
08
Apr
Zoom-Bomb: Anti-Semites Find a New Platform For Hate
Meetings and classrooms have been disrupted by blasts from pornographic films and, in one case, a shouter interrupted a Massachusetts school class meeting with profanities, and then disclosed the teacher’s home address.
06
Apr
What to Watch: ‘A Place to Call Home’
In this time of uncertainty, Moment is working hard to provide you with fact checked news, resources and analysis—plus some lighter fare—to help us make it through the crisis together. Click here for our ongoing coronavirus coverage.
During these days of enforced isolation, almost any phone or email conversation sooner or later gets around to the same question: What are you streaming? As time passes, there’s a never-ending search for undiscovered, overlooked, binge-worthy gems, as various new and marquee series such as Netflix’s Unorthodox play out.
A Place to Call Home is just such a series, featuring an engaging Jewish character—a middle-aged woman named Sarah who could have been ordered directly from Amazon’s Heroine catalog. She is strong, brave, left-wing and beautiful, and takes no guff from anyone–all without superpowers, which is important since Warner Bros. has just delayed the release...