We Should Not Replace the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism
For more than a decade, government and non-profit professionals tasked with combating anti-Semitism have championed the widespread recognition of a document called the Working Definition...
Beshert | “Apartners”—After He Buffed the Scratch on Her Car
Kenny and I knew each other for years. I'm a singer, he's a drummer. In the club date biz, you freelance and show up in...
What Is Community Today?
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What does community mean in the 21st century?
Human beings are gregarious. Since the dawn of time, we have...
Parting Words from President Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin was elected President of Israel by the Knesset in June 2014. He will complete his seven year term in July 2021. As the...
Winners and Losers in the Most Recent Israeli Election
More than a week after the most recent Israeli election, Israelis are still trying to find a way to make sense of what happened—and, no...
Moment Contributors Weigh In on Israeli Election
Following Israeli election returns is not for the faint of heart. With four elections (so far) in less than two years, more than a dozen...
A Jewish Vietnam Veteran Looks Back 50 years on the Moral Journey that Changed His Life
From 1968 to 1969, Moment Senior Editor George Johnson served as an Army intelligence advisor in the CIA’s Phoenix Program in South Vietnam. Based on his memoir When One’s Duty and the Right Thing are not the Same, Johnson discusses his assignment to this once-secret intelligence program and the Army’s program for “pacification” of Vietnamese villages. He also discusses how his reservations about the war caused him, upon return from Vietnam and to civilian life, to call for an accounting for the war and to re-orient his life toward Judaism and Jewish social action. This program is in honor of National Vietnam War Veterans Day.
Spice Box: Dinner at 5, Wear a Sweater
Dinner at 5, wear a sweater.
The Conversation
Moment asked some smart, thoughtful people about a complicated issue: U.S. policy toward Iran (“What’s the Deal with Iran?” January/February 2021).
Cynthia Ozick: In Defense of Imagination
Every few years, a YouTube clip makes its way around the literary corners of the internet: A young Cynthia Ozick stands up at a 1971 panel on feminism featuring Norman Mailer.
Book Review | Sifting Through Memory with Cynthia Ozick
Antiquities is peak Cynthia Ozick. This novel is a tiny peephole into the purpose of living in a world that outlasts us.
‘American Baby’: Ethics of Jewish Adoption Explored Through a Tragic Family Story
Best-selling author Gabrielle Glaser’s new book, American Baby, starts with a dying cantor’s search for a mother he never met. It shares the intimate, intricate...