Amy E. Schwartz is Moment’s opinion and book editor.
Spies in the Warsaw Ghetto! Ob/Gyns on Everest! Handmaids of Ancient Canaan! ...
The first time I found myself in synagogue for the chanting of the Book of Kohelet, or Ecclesiastesâtypically read by Ashkenazi Jews during the Shabbat of Sukkot, the fall harvest festivalâmy first astonished thought was that Iâd wandered into the wrong room, or at least picked up the wrong book. ...
Daniel Klaidman, coauthor of âFind me the Votesâ, discusses the violent threats received by Georgia officials following the 2020 election. ...
Generations of Jewish writers have reckoned with the Holocaust: Now thereâs a new trauma to contend with. ...
When I started doing interviews for the winter issueâs âMoment Debateâ on the question âShould students be disciplined for chanting,
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2023 was one of those years when we really, really needed our books. ...
This year has been an absolute feast for readers. But with so many great books out there, it can be ...
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institutionâs senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chopsâthe moral authority, if you willâto poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche. ...
"How can Jewish and Israeli students feel safe on campus when it's considered acceptable to justify or even celebrate the death of Jewish children? " ...
Allegra, youâve described your work as post-ethnic, post-deli JudaismââJewish life beyond Roth and Bellow, Woody Allen, and bagels and lox.â
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Itâs the season of returnâliterally. Earlier this week, making plans to schlep the family back to the New York shul
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In real life, artificial intelligence may be making great strides, but itâs nothingâat least, as yetâcompared to the visions of artificial yet intelligent creatures that live in our literary imagination. ...