Early on in my tenure, I realized how much my Muslim students were like Jewish students 100 years ago. ...
Religious Jews should be first in line to help today’s refugees and strangers. ...
American Jews and American Muslims have had a lot of reasons lately to come together. But often when these two communities join forces, whether for joint action or for dialogue, there’s an elephant in the room—a pachyderm with a Palestinian on it. ...
Outsiders alone won’t be able to fix the multiple messes in the Middle East. ...
Trump and Netanyahu have joined forces, and we won’t be able to overcome the one without overcoming the other. Resistance to one of this Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dumber twinset requires resistance to the other. ...
“Jerusalem contains more different versions of Heaven than any outsider can imagine,” Israeli writer Amos Oz once told the late
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The Jewish community can learn from its fears of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. ...
Every stone in Old Prague speaks three languages: Czech, German and Hebrew, the languages of the three nations who have lived there together for more than 1,000 years. ...
Sukkot, in Pitigliano, meant a great deal not only to us, but also to our Christian neighbors. ...
Both a man of letters and a true activist, Leonard "Leibel" Fein never lost his abiding passion for serving the Jewish people. As Moment’s co-founder and editor from 1975 to 1989, he used the editor’s column regularly to write about his passions – social justice and ending racism and poverty, ...
hree thousand years ago, tradition says the prophet Samuel anointed a lowly shepherd named David king of Israel. A warrior
...avid Brooks, that rare New York Times columnist equally criticized by liberals and conservatives alike, was born in Toronto, Canada.
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