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Israel and its ties to American Jews

What Should the Role of American Jews Be With Respect to Israel Today?

BY MOMENT

The Ghosts of the Khan of Ajjur

BY ARIEH O’SULLIVAN

OPINIONS

A Small Religious Revolution

BY SHMUEL ROSNER

Headshot of Tucker Carlson.

‘Replacement Theory’, Mainstreamed

BY SARAH POSNER

Field Marshal Erwin Rommell with staff in North Africa in 1942.

The Summer of 1942

BY GERSHOM GORENBERG

MOMENT DEBATE

Is the Filibuster Good for Democracy?

JEWISH WORD

Two pages from the Talmud, part of the inspiration for the word Talmudic

The Hairsplitting Complexity of ‘Talmudic’

BY ELLEN WEXLER

ASK THE RABBIS

A visual of two groups of people split by a gorge, over which hangs a huge needle with a dose of medicine inside of it. On one side of the gorge, a crowd of people performs everyday activities. A sign is planted in the ground that says "DEUT 30:19: CHOOSE LIFE." On the other side, three people seem to be panicked and distressed.

How Do You Deal With People in Your Community Who Don’t Want to Get Vaccinated?

 

TALK OF THE TABLE

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A Tale of Two Briskets

BY DAN FREEDMAN

LITERARY MOMENT

Picture of the book "Our Country Friends"

Book Review | The First Covid Comedy

BY CARLIN ROMANO

Two copies of "A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism"

Book Review | The Politics of Paranoia, Then and Now

BY ROBERT SIEGEL

Three copies of "Under Jerusalem"

Book Review | Beneath the City of God

BY ORI Z. SOLTES

A woman carries an armful of books.

Books to Give—and Read

BY AMY E. SCHWARTZ

Books about art and artists

Notable Books on Art and Artists

BY DIANE M. BOLZ

FICTION

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Polonaise

BY RONA ARATO

POETRY

Two shabbat candles on a green background.

 Portrait of the Poet’s Grandmother (Lighting Candles)

BY DAVID BIESPEL

VISUAL MOMENT

Judy Chicago’s Revolutionary Art

BY DIANE M. BOLZ

THE CONVERSATION

Copy of previous Moment issue, whose cover features an image that parallels the Uyghur population to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It reads "An Inconvenient Genocide"

The Conversation

BY MOMENT

FROM THE EDITOR

The Place Where We Are Right

BY NADINE EPSTEIN

SPICE BOX

A sheet of paper reads "closed due to personal Circumcisions Apologies for any Inconvenience caused"

In Poland It Was Mangostein

BY MOMENT