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Winter Issue 2022

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A guide leads a group of teenagers through a room in the Holocaust Museum whose walls are completely covered in historical photographs, pointing to a photo and telling the teenagers about it.

The State of Holocaust Education in America

BY DAN FREEDMAN

OPINIONS

Nissim Shitrit

Blinded by a Black Hat

BY NAOMI RAGEN

An illustration of a group of racially diverse people talking, each with their own differently-colored speech bubble.

Dinners and Dialogues Are Not Enough

BY LETTI COTTIN POGREBIN

A Jewish State, but What Kind?

BY MARSHALL BREGER

Cover of 'Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel'

Interview | Are Pro-Trump Jews Moving On?

BY AMY E. SCHWARTZ

MOMENT DEBATE

A pro-choice rally marches. Their signs that say things like "Keep abortion legal."

Would a Ban on Abortion Curtail Jews’ Religious Freedom

JEWISH WORD

Shmita

Shmita: A Sabbath for the Land—and Ourselves

BY NOACH PHILLIPS

ASK THE RABBIS

Illustration for "Is political compromise a Jewish Virtue?"

Is Political Compromise a Jewish Virtue?

BY MOMENT

TALK OF THE TABLE

dates

The Satisfying Sweetness of Dates

BY SUSAN BAROCAS

LITERARY MOMENT

Copies of "In Hitler's Munich" by Micheal Brenner

Book Review | The Ripples Before the Storm

BY ROBERT SIEGEL

Copies of Carl Bernstein's Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Book Review | The Palpable Joy of Journalism

BY VIVIAN GORNICK

Copies of "Breaking and Entering" by Barbara Goldberg

Book Review | A Poet’s Appetite for Grief and Desire

BY MARCELA SULAK

Headshot of Anita Diamant

Book Interview | Anita Diamant and the Pursuit of Menstrual Justice

BY AMY E. SCHWARTZ

VISUAL MOMENT

Two side by side self portraits of Man Ray in profile, intently adjusting the focal range on his view camera as if for a portrait session. He directs the camera in the photograph at the audience, while the camera taking his picture remains invisible.

Man Ray in Paris

BY DIANE M. BOLZ

FROM THE EDITOR

Black and white headshot of Nadine Epstein.

Elie Wiesel and Two Girls He Never Met

BY NADINE EPSTEIN

SPICE BOX

Food label that reads "Mushroom & Bris Soup"

What Sort of Mushrooms, Exactly?

BY MOMENT